297026 - During install received error "Error 1157 Could Not Load"

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Nichol M]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.8/mozilla-win32-1.7.8-installer.exe

After downloading the 1.7.8 instalation app from the site above, attempted to
install on a PC with Windows 95 operating system.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download from above site
2. Start app, procede through install wizard
3. Error 1157: Could Not Load c:\windows\temp\ns_temp\xpcons.ns\bin\xpistlib.dll

Actual Results:  
Must click OK, installation cancels.  Mozilla suite does not complete install.

Expected Results:  
No error.  Install on machine.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

did you perhaps run out of disk space?
if (instead of clicking ok) you look in the location it mentions, is the file
there?  Does the directory even exist?

Comment 2

[Nichol M]

(In reply to comment #1)
> did you perhaps run out of disk space?
> if (instead of clicking ok) you look in the location it mentions, is the file
> there?  Does the directory even exist?

There is plenty of disk space.  c:\windows\temp exists, but not the rest of the
directory tree.  

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

does any of the directory structure exist when the dialog pops up?  It will
probably clean up anything there after you hit "ok".

Do you have write access to the directory (c:\windows\temp)?

Comment 4

[Nichol M]

I checked the directory before, during, and after the error message.  The
directory does not exist at any point

Yes, I have write access to the directory.

The name of the file that it is trying to install leads me to believe that it is
a file for Windows XP (XPISTLIB.DLL), whereas the PC I'm trying to install on
runs Windows 95.  Could this be the issue?

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

no, xpistlib == XPI stub library, XPI = cross platform install

but win95 could still be part of the problem... Mozilla gets very little testing
with win95.

Do you have the same problem if you try to install older releases?

Comment 6

[Nichol M]

I tried 1.7.7 with the same error, but haven't tried anything earlier.  What was
the last known good version for win95?

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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