81425 - Software auto-installation does not work, % wont show when downloading

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 76943

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Francisco León]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-20mdk i686; en-US; rv:0.9+)
Gecko/20010515
BuildID:    2001051508

I went to that URL, so mozilla requested to download the java linux plugin. The
plugin is bigger in size than the whole mozilla itself! After it downloaded it,
it could not install it without any reason, a new window opened saying that the
download was unsuccessful.
Another bug inside the downloading window of the software auto-installation: the
progress bar is not shown, so i had to lure into /tmp and do a ls -l jr.xpi so i
would know when the file was about to complete (it's a 15MB file)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go into any page with java
2.Let mozilla try to download and install the java plugin


Actual Results:  1.Progress bar in downloading is not shown, or shown empty
2.After download is complete, mozilla gets confused and can't install the
program and says download unsuccessful in a new window

Expected Results:  Java should be installed. More important, java xpi package
should be available to download from the mozilla installer!

Comment 1

[Igor Kushnirskiy]

moving to oji

Comment 2

[edburns]

X, can you please take a look?

Comment 3

[Karthik Sheka]

I'm seeing the same on Win98SE w/ build 2001052104.

Comment 4

[Francisco León]

Java installation is being attempted by mozilla, but crashes.
Percentage of how much has been downloaded does not work also.
The only way to install java is :
1.-Unzip jre.xpi from netscape 6 into ~mozilla/plugins/java2 and make a symlink
libjavaplugin_oji.so -> java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so*

Comment 5

[Francisco León]

Why didn't i think of this before?
Java auto-installation is failing because we use mozilla at /usr/local/mozilla
(at least me) and since i am running mozilla as a normal user, i cant create
stuff under that dirs so that must be the problem

Installing as root SHOULD be ok (not tested yet)

Comment 6

[Xiaobin Lu]

Also see this problem with May 27's build. Reassign to XPInstall group.

Comment 7

[Francisco León]

what's the status of this bug?

Comment 8

[Harald Glatt]

java still doesnt work 2001071104 / win2k sp2;
it downloads and showes everything correct;
then it simply doesn't start to install and tells me "downloaded successfully" 
on a site.

i can't find the file on my computer to run it!

Comment 9

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW..not sure this wasnt put new before.

Comment 10

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

[e-mail] -- This is a linux bug. Since the JRE and installer are 
platform-specific please open a new bug for your win2k problem.

I believe the download percentage was fixed 5/30 with bug 76943

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76943 ***