558146 - Missing/Damaged mozilla-runtime causes hang

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 535077

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Andreas Jung]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100408 Minefield/3.7a5pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100408 Minefield/3.7a5pre

If mozilla-runtime.exe is missing or damaged Minefield hangs as soon as it tries to run it (see also bug 522190 comment 5).

It should instead recognize that running mozilla-runtime.exe failed and prompt the user with a dialog (or reuse the plug-in crashed UI?) that it was not possible to run mozilla-runtime.exe and what the user can do to fix the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. close Minefield
2. rename mozilla-runtime.exe
3. start Minefield
4. visit a page that requires a plug-in
Actual Results:  
Minefield hangs.

Expected Results:  
Minefield should not hang and tell the user that mozilla-runtime couldn't be run.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Andreas, I'm interested in knowing how you ended up with a missing/damaged mozilla-runtime.

Comment 3

[Andreas Jung]

Therefore I wrote "see bug 522190 comment 5", because I have written there how I ended up with a 0-byte mozilla-runtime.exe

Short: The partial update failed and damaged the file.
I don't have a clue why...