505782 - Automatic Updates delete "Executable" File Permission on Minefield Program Files and Libraries (Linux Version)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 505120

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Clifford Keele]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090721 Minefield/3.6a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090721 Minefield/3.6a1pre

July 21 & July 22 updates (20090722031710 & 20090721031423)

"Executable" File Permission on Firefox (Minefield) Program Files and Libraries is being deleted by daily automatic update.

Program does not properly restart after update.

OS: Linux, Fedora Core 7 


Tools - Permissions - Advanced - Update
Configured to automatically check for updates to Minefield, Add-ons, Search Engines
And configured to automatically download and install.

I have only recently installed Minefield, so I can't report on the previous history of this problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Daily Updates Enabled
2.Firefox closed (or crashed) then reopened.
3.Updates installed, but Firefox does not properly reopen.
Actual Results:  
"Executable" permissions unset on the following files.
Firefox failed to restart after update.

/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/crashreporter
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/firefox-bin
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/mozilla-xremote-client
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/updater
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libfreebl3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libmozjs.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libnspr4.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libnssckbi.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libplc4.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libplds4.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libsmime3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libsoftokn3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libsqlite.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libssl3.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libxpcom.so
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6a1pre/libxul.so


Expected Results:  
Executable Permissions left alone (executable) for program and libraries.

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This sounds like the recent regression in bug 505120 that was just fixed. Please check to see if it is fixed with tomorrow's update

Comment 2

[Clifford Keele]

Last 2 updates ok.

Apparently similar to the Mac bug.

Thanks