307899 - Patch 307259 cannot be installed even as root

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[tironsi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

I cannot install the patch at
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.6/patches/307259.xpi
even if I run firefox using sudo.

In the console window I see the following messages:

dori@lexx:~$ sudo /opt/firefox/firefox
Password:
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** getItemProperty failing for lack of an item. This means getResourceForItem 
               failed to locate a resource for aItemID (item ID =
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.6/patches/307259.xpi,
property = disabled)
*** getItemProperty failing for lack of an item. This means getResourceForItem 
               failed to locate a resource for aItemID (item ID =
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.6/patches/307259.xpi,
property = internalName)
dori@lexx:~$

Upon restarting firefox I do not see the changed UA string that would indicate
that the patch was applied.

See also Bug 307897 which may be related

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo firefox
2. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.6/patches/307259.xpi
3.

Actual Results:  
It seems like it should have been installed but it isn't.

Expected Results:  
Patch being installed

Comment 1

[tironsi]

Attachment: The extension window after the patch seemed to have been installed

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Known issue. See bug 307259 comment 62. Should be fixed in the next hour or so...

Comment 3

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

Looks like this will take a while... someone with write access to the ftp site
is needed to do this and it is the weekend.

Comment 4

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

BTW: The extension is not an extension manager extension so it will not be
displayed in the extension manager window... it just copies a pref file on
install to the application's defaults/pref dir.

Comment 5

[Vectorspace]

The latest comments in bug 307259 suggest that the updated xpi has been uploaded
to the mirrors

Comment 6

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

Actually, I just tried it again and it still has 400 for permissions on the
files inside the xpi (see bug 307259 comment #73 ) - bug 189905 has additional
details about what is going on.

Comment 7

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

grrr... still not fixed.

Comment 8

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

An updated xpi patch has been pushed to the mirrors and I verified that it does
have the correct perms. Note that the EM does not display xpi's that are not
packaged for the EM so this patch will not be displayed.

resolved -> fixed