275750 - Sunbird launched from Mac read-only disk image crashes on launch

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, defect)

Description

[Adam Shostack]

1) download sunbird 2004-12-17
2) attempt to launch from dmg
3) observe crash
4) Copy from dmg to /Applications, launch
5) no crash

(I routinely launch new apps from the disk image without problem.)

Comment 1

[Adam Shostack]

Attachment: Macos crash log

Comment 2

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

*** Bug 276507 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

I wouldn't expect this to work at this point off a read-only disk image.

-> trivial
-> updated summary

Comment 4

[timeless]

oh, i missed that part. afaik all of the mozilla apps crash when run from
readonly disk images

Comment 5

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

nominate for WONTFIX

Comment 6

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

It's a known issue that mozilla apps don't run from readonly partitions.

Comment 7

[Adam Shostack]

The 1.0 releases of Firefox and Thunderbird both work fine from the downloaded disk images.  

Comment 8

[Hiro]

duplicate or depend bug246789 ?

Comment 9

[Sam Hooker]

It did a weird "launch-crash" loop when I tried it. I stopped it w/o rebooting
with something like:

ps wwwaxu | grep -i sunbird | perl -e 'while(<STDIN>) {my(@bits) =
split(/\s+/,$_); system("kill -9 $bits[1]")}'

Comment 10

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 11

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Launching Sunbird from a disk image now works.

Marking WFM since I don't know what patch fixed it.

-> WFM