304066 - EM fails to install extension

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Sean McMurray]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050809 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050809 Firefox/1.0+

As an xpi, this extension causes as -203 error in EM.
Manually adding an extensions/myExtensions pointer in the Profile Folder get a
report of a successful install, but causes a js error in EM.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install attached extension

Actual Results:  
-203 error

Expected Results:  
installed the extension

the contents of the extension don't seem to matter. The same error occurs if all
the directories and empty.

Comment 1

[Sean McMurray]

*** Bug 304068 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Sean McMurray]

Attachment: test extension

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Does your install.rdf contain all of the required properties?
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/install.rdf

If not, then this is invalid.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

rob, we should probably at least catch these kinds of exceptions and provide a
more detailed error.

Comment 5

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Agreed... that is why I filed bug 299085 a while ago.

Comment 6

[Sean McMurray]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Does your install.rdf contain all of the required properties?
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/install.rdf

Thank you. It seems that it was missing <em:name/>. Can you include this link in 
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Building_an_Extension#Create_the_Install_Manifest
?

Comment 7

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

no patch==>not fixed

Comment 8

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

wfm

Comment 9

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Thank you. It seems that it was missing <em:name/>. Can you include this link in 
>
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Building_an_Extension#Create_the_Install_Manifest
> ?
Done