272542 - Installation stops: US Region Pack: -208 INVALID_ARGUMENTS

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Tomi "BGT" Mäntylä]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041201 Firefox/0.9.1+

I downloaded the latest nightly build -- removed the old installation (without
deleting the installation directory, though) -- and started installing the new
build. The installation proceeded through Licence Agreement, but then stopped
with an error:

Error during installation - US Region Pack: -208 INVALID_ARGUMENTS

I then installed without any problems the previous nightly build I had been
using till so far. I had it's installation package in store.

I downloaded the file FirefoxSetup.exe from
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
which is what I always use.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remove the earlier nightly build but not the installation directory (in order
to make sure your bookmarks are safe.)
2. Try to install the latest nightly build (1.12.2004) from FirefoxSetup.exe

Actual Results:  
I got the error message described in details. I clicked on cancel and needed to
close the installation progress window (with the green bar a few centimeters to
go, but stopped) by clicking the red X.

Expected Results:  
Finish the installation.

My computer has Finnish (European) settings on Microsoft Windows XP professional
Version 2002, SP2.

Comment 1

[Steffen Wilberg]

That's likely to be fixed already.
2004-11-30 20:15: fixing windows installer bustage from aviary branch landing.

Please try a build from today:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/sweetlou-0.11/

Please reopen if it's not fixed with that build.

Comment 2

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

RE comment #1.  This issue is with trunk builds.  It fails with the latest Beast
tinderbox build from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/beast-trunk/

Comment 3

[Steffen Wilberg]

ok, sorry for the wrong link.

Comment 4

[Jon Henry]

Should this have keyword smoketest? I see this also, prevents me from testing
out the new trunk builds at all.

Comment 5

[Steffen Wilberg]

Use the zip build:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/beast-trunk/Firefox-win32.zip.

Comment 6

[mjanicki]

I tried the win32 zip and I continue to get XML parsing errors when I start Firefox

Comment 7

[Bill Mason]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I tried the win32 zip and I continue to get XML parsing errors when I start
Firefox

Since this bug is not about an XML parsing error, your comment is not this bug.
 File a new one if no bug about your problem already exists.

Comment 8

[mjanicki]

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > I tried the win32 zip and I continue to get XML parsing errors when I start
> Firefox
> 
> Since this bug is not about an XML parsing error, your comment is not this bug.
>  File a new one if no bug about your problem already exists.

Well, obviously a win32 zip file wouldn't create an error correlated with the
installer.  But I got the XML parsing error when the installer got stuck at US
Region Pack and the error still occurs with the zip file, so I don't think using
the zip fixes the fundamental problem of the US Region Pack error

Comment 9

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Well, obviously a win32 zip file wouldn't create an error correlated with the
> installer.  But I got the XML parsing error when the installer got stuck at US
> Region Pack and the error still occurs with the zip file, so I don't think using
> the zip fixes the fundamental problem of the US Region Pack error

It's because your profile is not clean. I removed (part of) my profile and
installed zip and it runs fine now.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041201
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 10

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

I'm hoping my landing of the browser/installer dir will fix this.

Comment 11

[Bill Mason]

This error no longer occurs in the 2004120212 build.

However the installer is still broken, see bug 272851.

Comment 12

[Bill Mason]

Reopening.  I just realized that this error comes after the new DLL errors in
bug 272851, so there is no way to confirm that this is fixed.

Comment 13

[Bill Mason]

Reopening.  I just realized that this error comes after the new DLL errors in
bug 272851, so there is no way to confirm that this is fixed.

Comment 14

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

This no longer occurs in current tinderbox builds. 

Comment 15

[Larry Kapinos]

Firefox 1.05 and 1.06 stop installing during unzip. Message:
Error Occurred during Installation. en - US Language Pack - 208  Invalid Arguements.

Version 1.04 currently installed in W2000 SP4. Tried installing 1.05/1.06 over
it, uninstalling it, direct install, and save to zip then install. All with same
error. 

Comment 16

[Larry Kapinos]

(In reply to comment #15)
> Firefox 1.05 and 1.06 stop installing during unzip. Message:
> Error Occurred during Installation. en - US Language Pack - 208  Invalid
Arguements.
> 
> Version 1.04 currently installed in W2000 SP4. Tried installing 1.05/1.06 over
> it, uninstalling it, direct install, and save to zip then install. All with same
> error. 

After several tries it ended up installed even though the error message
continued. This is good, but have no explaination.