46008 - Browser crashes on start-up and gets a -43 error on mozilla

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P3)

Description

[Alek Jeziorek]

-download the installer
-start the installation
-on mozilla you'll get an error in the middle of the installation
-on commercial continue and finish the installation
-try to start-up the browser
-it will crash
*note: missing file webshell.shlb i don't know if thats related

Comment 1

[J.J. Enser]

Error #-34 means "disk full"!
That could simply explains the missing webshell

in bug #29845, dveditz wrote that the install wizard does some rudimentary disk 
space check, but it should NOT start the install in such a situation, and display 
a more user-friendly message.
creating dependency between the 2 bugs.

Comment 2

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Putting on [dogfood-] radar.  Not critical to everyday use.  Also, adding 
"nsbeta3" keyword for fix consideration in PR3. 

Comment 3

[Alek Jeziorek]

no longer seen on mac build 2000-07-21-08-M17 marking works for me

Comment 4

[J.J. Enser]

Before this gets marked VERIFIED, Alek, did you try and run the installer with an 
"almost full" disk to see what happens?
Since there were no fix checked in, I suspeect this bug is still valid.

Comment 5

[Grace Bush]

I saw this error last week too and am not seeing it today- 7/24, don't think it
was disk space- I had lots of it then as well as now

Comment 6

[J.J. Enser]

MacOS error #-34 is somewhat related with lack of disk space. I'm positive. If 
you think you have plenty but still see this error, then the wizard must be doing 
something *really* bad.

Alek, can you answer my last question?

Comment 7

[Alek Jeziorek]

the errror is actually -43 i double checked and i still don't see it on build 
2000-07-24-08-M17

Comment 8

[J.J. Enser]

-43 ??? Well, that's a total different story now. This means "File not found" 
which probably means that some .xpi were missing with 20000720 build but this got 
fixed since then.
So this bug can probably be verified now.

2 observations:
- extra care should be give to error numbers when entered in a bug description to 
avoid this kind of confusion.
- Better user experience should be implemented in the wizard to handle errors 
(displaying a sentence instead of an error number, and in this particular case, 
indicating _which_ file is missing). Samir, Dan, can I log a separate bug for 
this?

Comment 9

[J.J. Enser]

updating summary

Comment 10

[Samir Gehani]

JJ,
There was another bug logged about the -43 error.  It got resolved.  It had to 
do with the langpacks not being generated by the commercial automation or some 
such.  

Comment 11

[Grace Bush]

will verify for build 2000072408

Comment 12

[Michael Lefevre]

fixing null OS field on old bugs