327673 - Update doesn't update

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 327140

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Sapiro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20060111 Netscape/8.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.6a1 (20060216)

I've seen bugs 317235, 317191, 318277, 318299 and 314684. While all those seem similar to what I'm experiencing, they are all 'resolved'. I've tried the workaround in comment #63 to bug 314684 (i.e. I removed C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\extensions\{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}), and it doesn't help. I've tried removing C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\Updates.xml and it doesn't help.

The problem started around February 13, I think. Prior to that time, updating worked fine. The problem is I (or TB automatically) check for updates and am told there is a new version of Thunderbird 1.6a1 available. I click "Download & Install Now" and the downloading progress meter appears and disappears almost immedately (I don't think it downloads much if anything). I then click "Restart Thunderbird Now" and Thunderbird closes and reopens, but the updater doesn't appear to run and Thunderbird is not updated.

I can go to the web site and download the latest daily installer and run the full install, and then "check for updates says I'm up to date until the next daily build comes.

Right now, I have 1.6a1 (20060216). If I try to update, it remains the same. After trying to update, C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\Updates.xml contains:

<updates xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2005/app-update"><update type="minor" name="Thunderbird 1.6a1" version="1.6a1" extensionVersion="1.6a1" detailsURL="http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/" licenseURL="undefined" serviceURL="https://aus2.mozilla.org/update/1/Thunderbird/1.6a1/2006021607/WINNT_x86-msvc/en-US/nightly/update.xml" installDate="1140219845578" statusText="The Update was successfully installed" buildID="2006021710" isCompleteUpdate="false" channel="nightly"><patch type="complete" URL="http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2006-02-17-11-trunk/thunderbird-1.6a1.en-US.win32.complete.mar" hashFunction="MD5" hashValue="7b7b1e763f3bf5fa36e285898df99bdf" size="7887374" selected="false" state="undefined"/><patch type="partial" URL="http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2006-02-16-08-trunk/thunderbird-1.6a1.en-US.win32.partial.2006021607-2006021710.mar" hashFunction="MD5" hashValue="a2d171790ccf9ad99670b399efdbbcc4" size="54" selected="true" state="succeeded"/></update></updates>

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\updates\last-update.log contains:

succeeded
calling QuitProgressUI

and there may or may not be a C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\updates\0 directory which it it is there is empty.

I see the same problem, beginning with the same update on two different windows XP computers.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.help->check for updates
2.install update
3.

Actual Results:  
TB not updated

Expected Results:  
TB updated

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Yep, partial updates are not working currently, bug 327140.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 327140 ***