273522 - Global installation of extension creates recursion problem

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter Brommer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

Installing various extensions/langpacks globally (with the
--install-global-extension command line parameter) fails to finish. The
installation seems to hang, while creating a recursive directory structure.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run 
   ./thunderbird --install-global-extension localeswitcher-0.3.xpi 
as root in thunderbird directory.

Also "works" with thunderbird-1.0.de-DE.langpack.xpi from nightly/contrib-l10n 
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird never finishes. It writes a recursive directory structure in the
thunderbird/extensions directory:
thunderbird creates an endless sequence of directories in the
thunderbird/extensions directory: 
thunderbird/extensions/temp/
thunderbird/extensions/temp/temp-5ng.xpi
thunderbird/extensions/temp/temp-5ng.xpi/extensions/
thunderbird/extensions/temp/temp-5ng.xpi/extensions/temp/
thunderbird/extensions/temp/temp-5ng.xpi/extensions/temp/temp-5ng.xpi/
thunderbird/extensions/temp/temp-5ng.xpi/extensions/temp/temp-5ng.xpi/extensions/
... ad infinitum
The installation never finishes, for fear of running out of ressources I then
abort the installation process.

Expected Results:  
Should have installed the extensions or the langpack.

Installing the extensions locally (from within thunderbird) works perfectly.


Extensions that failed:
   http://thunderbird.dnsalias.net/downloads/extensions/localeswitcher-0.3.xpi
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.0/win32/xpi/de-DE.xpi
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/contrib-1.0-l10n/thunderbird-1.0.de-DE.langpack.xpi

Comment 1

[Peter Brommer]

This bug might be related to the Firefox bug #250847 
Adding a string after the extension filename (as described at bug #250847) does
not help here.

Comment 2

[Peter Brommer]

Workaround: The recursive creation of directories does not happen when one uses
an absolute path, eg. /home/user/directory/filename instead of ./directory/filename

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I suppose it should work with relative filenames, too.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Is this a problem with Firefox, too?

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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