53693 - nightly build must be run as root, before non root can

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 42184

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Jos.vandenOever]

When I download the nightly build and unpack it as root in a nightly script, a
non-root user cannot run mozilla properly before root has done so.
When the non-root user runs mozilla it stops before the line

Setting content window

Mozilla does not stop and has to be ctrl-c'd or killed.
When root runs mozilla a diff on a has-run and has-not-run directory of the same
build gives:

Only in mozilla/chrome: all-locales.rdf
Only in mozilla/chrome: all-packages.rdf
Only in mozilla/chrome: all-skins.rdf
Only in mozilla/chrome: overlayinfo
Binary files mozilla/component.reg and package/component.reg differ

This seems strange, because I don't think stuff should be changed in this dir:
config stuff should go in the user dir.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

There will be a relase-note about the phenomena. (overlayinfo is a directory btw.)

And this is a dup - of mostfreq bug 42184 "Mozilla-bin must not write to bin dir
during installation"


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42184 ***

Comment 2

[Scott Brodmerkle]

Verfied dupe of 42184.