37874 - Error -201 during install on Win95 system in network

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect, P3)

Description

[Hans Bogaards]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (Win95; U)
BuildID:    5.0.16.20000050111

The installer gives an error '-201: Error occured during install' while 
installing the newest nightly builds on a Win95 system in a WinNT network. I do 
not have write permission for the 'start menu' entries. It started with the 
M16-nightlies. I can install M15 without problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download newest nightly build Win32-installer.exe
2. Run installer
3. Choose complete install to empty directory

Comment 1

[Hans Bogaards]

Attachment: install.log from failed install

Comment 2

[Hans Bogaards]

Some explenation with the install.log:
I don't have write permission on \\NT01
Could it be failing because of that?

Comment 3

[Sean Su]

Hi Hans,

That's probably exactly what the problem is.  We use the following registry 
key (under Win95) to locate where the Start Menu folder is located at:
  
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell 
Folders\Programs

It looks to me that it has a value of "\\NT01\userprog".  Do you know if the 
system is booting remotely?  Do you also know if other apps are able to create 
shortcuts on your system?

Comment 4

[Sean Su]

reassigning to myself.

Comment 5

[Cathleen]

if we fail to create shortcut, we should not completely stop the install 
process.

must fix in pr2

Comment 6

[leger]

Putting on [nsbeta2+] radar for beta2 fix.

Comment 7

[Hans Bogaards]

Other apps are also unable to create shortcuts, but most just give a warning
about that and continue the install, as did Mozilla up to (and including) M15.

The system boots locally (has Win95 on a local disk) and when I login to the NT-
server the start menu is changed to "\\NT01\userprog".

Comment 8

[Sean Su]

fixed.  I check for write access now.  It the installer doesn't have write 
access, it'll cause a non-fatal error.  It will not create the shortcuts and 
will log it in the install.log file as ACCESS_DENIED (-202), but will continue 
with installation.

Comment 9

[Hans Bogaards]

The installer now works for me with the 2000051308-build. But I don't see the
error message in the install.log.

Comment 10

[Jimmy Lee]

Build: 2000-05-18-09-M16(WIN)

Installation works plus I get the -202 error as expected.  Marking Verified!