323286 - Adding new dictionary as user (not root) fails but claims to have worked.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[gml4410]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5 en_GB (sorry - don't have exact Use Agent to hand)

   I installed Thunderbird v1.5 (British) version on Linux.  This install was done as root.

   The spelling dictionary was English/US, so I downloaded the English/British dictionary (spell-en-GB.xpi) when running under my own account and installed it.  Thunderbird reported that it had installed the dictionary OK, but the British dictionary option did not appear as a spelling choice.

   I had to run Thunderbird as root and re-run the install.  This reported success and did install files into the (root-owned) central installation.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install British Thunderbird 1.5 as (or any accoutn which isn't you?)
2.  Start this thunderbird as you
3.  Use the extension manager to install spell-en-GB.xpi

Actual Results:  
The install will say it succeeded (pop-up)
But look at Composition/Spelling preferences.  There will be no English/British option.
You will not find any updated files under ~/.thunderbird

Expected Results:  
a) Could the British distro please come with the British dictionary pre-installed (see bug 321742)?
b) The installer should report the install failure, not report success!
c) It should be possible to install dictionaries into personal locations (under ~/.thunderbird) as well as the central installation (with the option to do either if you have the rights to do both).

Comment 1

[Hendrik Maryns]

Exactly the same happened here.  Running TB as root and installing the dictionaries did the job.  SuSe linux 10.0 on 64-bit.

The dictionaries are there, under ~/.thunderbird/woordenboeken.  I have the dutch version, and I see the name of that directory is localised.  That seems strange to me and might well be the cause of this problem.  

Can I confirm this? (I mean, in the checkbox)

Comment 2

[Hendrik Maryns]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The dictionaries are there, under ~/.thunderbird/woordenboeken.  I have the
> dutch version, and I see the name of that directory is localised.  That seems
> strange to me and might well be the cause of this problem.  

On second thought, I might have created this directory myself, so forget this comment.  Sorry.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Duplicate of bug 225468 or bug 267390?

Comment 4

[Yang Zhao]

Can confirm on 1.5.0.5 on Gentoo Linux.


install.log:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
file:///home/yzhao/spell-en-CA.xpi  --  2006-08-08 21:19:31
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    spell-en-CA (version 0.1)
    -----------

    ** ERROR (-202): Installing:
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/myspell/en-CA.dic
    ** ERROR (-202): Installing:
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/myspell/en-CA.aff
    ** ERROR (-202): Installing:
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/myspell/README-en-CA.txt

    Install completed successfully  --  2006-08-08 21:19:33


yzhao@awa ~ $ ls -ld /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/myspell/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 208 2006-08-08 22:52
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/myspell/


Temporarily giving write access to /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/myspell/ allows extension to install successfully.

Comment 5

[Daniele Segato]

a work around
1) download the .xpi you need
2) open it as a normal .zip archive and extract the .aff and .dic file
3) copy those files (as root) to /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/myspell/

i "confirm" this bug..
i cannot use the "Confirm bug (confirm bug, and change status to ASSIGNED)" option for now :D

Comment 6

[gml4410]

One further point, which I only discovered the cause for last week.

Even when the British dictionary *is* installed as root, any attempt to use it flags all words as misspelt.

The reason for this is that the files are installed with a permission mode of 0600.

Please extend the bug to include setting the permissions so that the files are world readable too.

Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

This shouldn't be an issue anymore, bug 216382 made dictionaries normal extensions. (You need an updated dictionary for it to work but though.)

-> WFM