55085 - Extraction of XPCOM failed during Custom Linux install

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 107803

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P3)

Description

[Phil Schwartau]

OS: Linux Red Hat 2.2.12-20smp. Using Linux commercial installer from: 

  ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/unix/linux/2.2/x86/2000-09-29-09-MN6/ 



I have not been able to reproduce the bug while doing a "Recommended" install, 
only a "Custom" install as follows:


INCLUDING:                                   
  Mail & News
  English(DE)Language Pack
  Sun Java 2

EXCLUDING:
  Instant Messenger
  Spell Checker
  Quality Feedback Agent



I got the error after 8 successful stages of install. The last success was:
 
             "Installing Sun Java 2 [8/8]"

Then followed the message:

             "Extracting libxpcom.so ..."

And then an immediate error: 

            "Fatal error [-616] : Extraction of XPCOM failed"

Comment 1

[Sean Su]

that's not an xpinstall error number.  might be os related.  Reassigning to 
Samir.

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

Can't reproduce on our RedHat 6.1 machine.

Grace, can you reproduce this on a RedHat 6.2 machine other than Phil's?

Phil, what is your hostname?  I'd like to try reproducing this on your host to
help isolate.  Thanks.

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

I don't have a static hostname. Currently, it is h-208-12-39-162

Comment 4

[Grace Bush]

I'll need to look for a 6.2 machine - I use 6.1 also

Comment 5

[Samir Gehani]

I am able to reproduce this behavior if I run on Phil's machine.  The integrity
of xpcom.xpi checked out: xpcom.xpi appears to have all the libs intact in it.
However, during extraction, after libplds4.so (the first lib) is decompressed
libjar appears to be failing.  Investigating further.

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

Phil,

Are you still seeing this  problem?  

Comment 7

[Phil Schwartau]

It's worse now - I crash when I try to do a Custom Install including
only these two components: 

INCLUDING:                                   
  Mail & News
  Sun Java 2

After 10/10 successful stages of download, the app crashes before any
installation begins (or before the installatin GUI shows, at any rate).

Comment 8

[Phil Schwartau]

Note: I had chosen the parent directory of the netscape-installer app 
as the install directory. I had this directory structure: 

   /data/phil/55085/netscape-installer/

Then I did:

cd /data/phil/55085
cd netscape-installer
./netscape-installer


... Q: Where do you want to install? 
... A: /data/phil/55085


Is this a mistake on my part? 

Comment 9

[Samir Gehani]

Sounds like Curt's domain now.  CC'ing dprice since this involves extraction code.

Comment 10

[Grace Bush]

Phil,
What you are doing is ok- I do something similar (but don't crash)
I will try your setup

Comment 11

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This is the same symptoms as bug 107083, duping to the newer bug because there's
more detail there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107803 ***

Comment 12

[Grace Bush]

verified

Comment 13

[Phil Schwartau]

Note: this does seem to be fixed. At least when I tried the
steps in Comment #7 and Comment #8, the installation succeeded.