806191 - Downloading Nightly-oak stuck on "connecting to update server"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Ra oeai]

Attachment: Снимок экрана от 2012-10-28 15:28:32.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/19.0 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20121026040203

Steps to reproduce:

Software update just appeared to upograde to ver 19.0a2
Downloading Nightly 
and it still connecting to update server.


Actual results:

still connecting to update server.


Expected results:

it should start the download

i got x64 earlybird, not sure if this is the issue, much more like it is because i've instaleld calendar, because when i was hitting the button help -> update it is redirecting me to the calendar ftp builds.

Comment 1

[Ra oeai]

Attachment: this is the page where i was redirected to

Comment 2

[Ra oeai]

Attachment: ooh it is the nightly update not the thunderbird one

Comment 3

[Ra oeai]

as about the earlybird it is not the bug it was a check latest lightning button,
there's no incremental update button in firefox and early bird at all, but i actually suppose that not the whole system is updating, this should be an *.xpi that can change some parts of the code if it is concerning triggers or new string or db changes and this xpi can include information of which files were changed during latest update and download them only if those cannot be changed through incremental string update inside the program itself.

Comment 4

[Ra oeai]

Attachment: the earlybird is using the same bug

Downloading Earlybird is failed too

Comment 5

[Ra oeai]

i resolved the bug - it is because i was trying to update from non-root account while the firefox directory itself is in /usr/share and needs root privileges, so for linux users
i see two ways - the one is to check the installation and move the folder into private $home folder so the updated version would be started from that place
or check the root and ask user to restart from root to update or provide some shell based gksu like authentication