308184 - -214 file not found error

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[David L. Mohn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Tried to install 1.0.6 over my 1.0.4 (at your insistence!);
After eintirely eliminating my 1.0.4 installation (bugger!) the installer
gave an error message, something about -214 not being found.

The User Forum has similar reports, but the only suggestion was to delete the 
files in Windows' Temp folder, which did not help as I still got the same error
message the second time I tried.

BTW, all I wanted to do was to install an extension, but found that someone in
their infinite wisdom decided to not permit it until after I installed the
latest release.  Now, I can't even use Firefox at all!  Wouldn't it have been
kinder and more user friendly to relate old Extension versions to the versions
of FF that they'd work with--and permit access?  Maybe I didn't really want to
be bothered with waiting on a full half-hour upgrade download, not to mention
the days(!) delay in trying to correct the mess someone's installer has made of
my system.  BTW2, the previous 1.0.4 installer worked like a charm! 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download 1.0.6
2. Run the installer
3. fuss & fume & cry! (curse?)

Actual Results:  
see comments

Expected Results:  
acted as the 1.0.4 installer did!

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

We need the full message, i.e. the missing file.

Comment 2

[David L. Mohn]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We need the full message, i.e. the missing file.

WHAT missing file?  To be more precise, having gone back to the forums to get
the exact wording of the error message: "-214 DOES_NOT_EXIST".  I don't know
(and apparently no one else knows) if -214 is a file, a token, or what.  The
message is generated by the installer, so I reckon the build files should
contain the message and point to what it is the installer wants.  I'm not a
developer though, so...

Comment 3

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

This isn't a problem with the NSIS installer implemented for Firefox 2.0 and
1.0.x is no longer supported. Resolving -> WFM