312038 - Get Updates produces rollback

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[J.M. Hardin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051003 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051003 Firefox/1.4.1

When running any nightly branch build after 20051003 you get an "update" to
2005100307. Also, when the update is complete Software Updates pops up a window
that says "The partial Update could not be applied. Firefox will try again by
downloading a complete update.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start with any night branch build after 20051003. (Also works with 1.5 Beta 2
when channel-prefs.js is changed from "nightly" to "beta" version.)
2. Select Help | Get Update
3. Allow Firefox to restart after update is downloaded

Actual Results:  
The build is identified as version 2005100307 with a message that the update was
not successfully applied

Expected Results:  
The installation should have a build number of at least 20051007, preferably the
latest nightly branch build.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I tried to confirm this and could not. Starting from the 2005100307 win32 zip, I
was able to traverse this sequence of builds,  partial updates unless noted:
   0307 
-> 0407 
-> 0415 (partial failed) 
-> 0418 
-> 0506 (partial failed)
-> 0517
-> 0604

There were glitches in the generated updates from 20051003 to 20051005 (bug
311099, there seems to be regenerated update files for most of those builds).
You probably have a stale active-updates.xml and updates/0/ from when update was
broken, and which aren't removed by an uninstall (bug 311423).

I suggest removing the file and directory from the firefox install dir, then
trying to update again.

Comment 2

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Closing this unless anyone objects.