Closed Bug 521249 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

updater.exe fail with manually launch.

Categories

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Application Update
Version:
1.9.1 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: yann_riviere, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Apply this procedure : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:Manually_Installing_a_MAR_file The procedure to manually update firefox finish always with a "failed : 6" in the update status. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Apply this procedure : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:Manually_Installing_a_MAR_file At least for Windows: 1. create a directory outside the firefox directory to be updated, e.g. %TEMP%\firefox-update 2. copy updater.exe and updater.ini from your current installation to that directory. 3. download appropriate .mar file and put it into the directory you created. Check ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.5/update/ 4. Important: cd to the firefox program directory, e.g. cd %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox. Running the update from within another directory will fail. 5. echo "pending" > %TEMP%\firefox-update\update.status 6. Run %TEMP%\firefox-update\updater.exe %TEMP%\firefox-update\ 0 Actual Results: update.status : failed: 6 update.log : failed: 6 calling QuitProgressUI Expected Results: Firefox updated from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 I have followed exactly the procedure and firefox is not updated. 3 days passed to find the issue..... We want to update firefox by this way to control which version is deployed, because we have SSO engine installed and when firefox have updated him automatically from 3.0.6 to 3.0.7, the SSO have been broken. Thanks a lot !
Component: Security → Application Update
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
QA Contact: firefox → application.update
Version: unspecified → 1.9.1 Branch
What happens when you use real paths instead of paths with %TEMP%
Hello, I have tried with the %TEMP% variable and the real path. I have exacly the same issue. Thanks
I've manually updated and we have tests that do this as well. Firefox can't be running during the update but I suspect it isn't. You don't need to copy the updater.ini. Looking at the wiki it looks like someone has made it rather complicated. You can do the following from the directory where you would like to update Firefox copy the updater.exe and the update.mar into a new directory. cd into the directory you would like to update launch the updater located in the new directory
Hi, I have tested on a directory where there is updater.exe and update.mar. I have launched updater.exe from this directory. I have launched updater.exe updater.mar. Without success.. Please find below result of the command lines.. Thanks ! E:\updates>dir Volume in drive E is DATA Volume Serial Number is E882-FF99 Directory of E:\updates 13/10/2009 17:55 <DIR> . 13/10/2009 17:55 <DIR> .. 13/10/2009 17:52 2,531,877 update.mar 28/04/2009 19:10 242,168 updater.exe 2 File(s) 2,774,045 bytes 2 Dir(s) 7,368,978,432 bytes free E:\updates>updater.exe E:\updates>updater.exe update.mar E:\updates>dir Volume in drive E is DATA Volume Serial Number is E882-FF99 Directory of E:\updates 13/10/2009 17:55 <DIR> . 13/10/2009 17:55 <DIR> .. 13/10/2009 17:52 2,531,877 update.mar 28/04/2009 19:10 242,168 updater.exe 2 File(s) 2,774,045 bytes 2 Dir(s) 7,368,912,896 bytes free E:\updates>
I've updated the wiki page to cover most of the issues that can occur when trying to manually update. Please try these new instructions added url for the instructions https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:Manually_Installing_a_MAR_file
URL: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Upd...
Another person has verified the documentation works on Windows and I've also verified it. Resolving WFM. If you still have problems please reopen this bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Hello ! Yes, it is working. But, it seems that this way, the registry is not updated nor the Config Panel. I can see that HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox registry entry is not updated.... Is it this way the updater.exe must act ? This is important for us as we check what version of Firefox is installed via the users desktop registries. Thanks.
Steps 9 - 12 on the page updated the registry entries under HKLM for me.
Oh Yeah :) For me too ! Sorry to have disturbed you ! I have not applied the steps 9-12 and this is the cause of my issues... All is working fine ! Thank you very much.
Hi ! Do you think it is possible to block the access to Firefox.exe while the updater.exe is running? I'm afraid that a user launch firefox while an update is running. Thanks !
We do that as of Firefox 3.6
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