642073 - Acer Liquid E with froyo - Addons don't load. - NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 637487

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Prasan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Fennec 4.05b

I tried installing a few addons. After I restart, I checked and found that the addons were not installed.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install addon - recommended ones (quit fennec, twitterbar, Reading list)
2.Restart when asked.
3.Check to see if the addon was installed.
Actual Results:  
Addons not installed

I checked error console and found the following :


Cannot load binary components from a jar.
/mnt/asec/org.mozilla.firefox-1/pkg.apk:components/components.manifest
35



Could not read chrome manifest file '/data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/chrome.manifest'.





/* The following was repeated for various addons according to the addons in question. */


ERROR addons.xpi: Failed to install staged add-on [e-mail] in app-profile: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED) [nsIFile.permissions]"  nsresult: "0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)"  location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/XPIProvider.jsm :: recursiveRemove :: line 1087"  data: no]
resource://gre/modules/XPIProvider.jsm
1087


ERROR addons.xpi: Failed to install staged add-on [e-mail] in app-profile: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED) [nsIFile.permissions]"  nsresult: "0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)"  location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/XPIProvider.jsm :: recursiveRemove :: line 1087"  data: no]
resource://gre/modules/XPIProvider.jsm
1087

Expected Results:  
Addons should have been installed.

I am using a liquid E with froyo running.
kernel - 2.6.29
build number - acer_liquid_4.002.08_EMEA_GEN1
baseband - A1-05.01.05

Running the latest 4.05b fennec. 
I'm also having troubles with sync, but will look further into it.

Comment 1

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

This looks like a duplicate of bug 637487.  Can you try out a nightly build from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android and verify that the problem is fixed?

Comment 2

[Prasan]

Sorry for the duplicate. Fennec nightly build fixes the problem.
Running 4.0b6 pre

Comment 3

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

No problem, thanks for testing!