289335 - firefox could not download the file at: ...xpi because unexpected error-203

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050406
Firefox/1.0+ 10:18 PDT

repro:
1.open FF
2.open Extensions (manager) and press: more extensions
3.pick any extension
4.install it.
5.the message acc. Summary pops up

sidenotes:
1.addons.mozilla.org somehow needed to be whitelisted again (I never removed it
though)
2. it did not recognise me as FF1.0+ / windows

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Just to make it clear, /this/ bug is about Firefox showing an error message
"Unexpected error 203" when installing extensions. This isn't a problem with
current Mozilla Suite build.
Relatively recent regression, Firefox ~20050401 build works fine.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

I also received this error message. I installed FlashGot 0.5.8 from
www.extensionsmirror.nl. The extension manager asked me if it was ok to install,
I said yes, extension manager displayed, progress bar rose to 100%, then
"unexpected error-203".

On closing and re-opening the browser, the extension was installed fine. Note: I
previously had FlashGot 0.5.7.8 installed before.

Comment 3

[timeless]

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpinstall/src/nsInstall.h#177          
  EXECUTION_ERROR             = -203,

Comment 4

[Ronny Perinke]

seems to be gone in 20050407 but I had the same problem with my 20050406 build.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050407
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 5

[Ryan Hill]

WFM w/ both mozilla.org and extensionsmirror.nl

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050407 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 6

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050407
Firefox/1.0+

->WFM

Comment 7

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

-203 would be pretty odd -- the XPInstall engine only uses that code when it
cannot launch an executable from an install.js script. Firefox extensions don't
use install.js, and they don't contain binaries to be launched. This should be
an extremely rare case, not every single .xpi.

The Firefox extension manager doesn't appear to use "203" anywhere (good, that'd
be confusing) so I don't know where else it could come from.

Oh, sidenote 2) -- if it didn't recognise you as FF1.0+ was it giving you
suite-only extensions? I still wouldn't expect a binary, but at least you might
be in the install.js realm rather than install.rdf

Comment 8

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

fwiw, this happened with all extensions I have checked (some of them were
Firefox-only, i.e. no install.js inside). The extensions were from my local archive.

Comment 9

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Oh, sidenote 2) -- if it didn't recognise you as FF1.0+ was it giving you
> suite-only extensions? I still wouldn't expect a binary, but at least you might
> be in the install.js realm rather than install.rdf
I reinstalled this build, it recognises me as FF1.0 (i/o 1.0+)
I'm almost sure it showed Linux as os, but only getting windows now (correct)