93411 - mozilla-bin downloads xpi's of ZERO LENGTH!

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[John Deighan]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628
BuildID:    20000802

install fails.  examining the xpi subdirectory in mozilla-install, all the xpi
files are of length 0!  All directories are writable.  I am using Red Hat 7.0 w.
the latest Ximian Gnome release.  I am behind a firewall.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. download
2. unpack
3. run mozilla-bin:
4. set proxy 
5. tell it to save xpi's (or not, doesn't matter, same result)
6. error: Fatal error [-616]: Extraction of XPCOM failed

Actual Results:  
From a clean install directory (mozilla-installer) I get, after the error:
[johnd@pc-johnd mozilla-installer]$ ls -l xpi
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 johnd    console         0 Aug  2 22:32 browser.xpi
-rw-r--r--    1 johnd    console         0 Aug  2 22:33 chatzilla.xpi
-rw-r--r--    1 johnd    console         0 Aug  2 22:33 deflenus.xpi
-rw-r--r--    1 johnd    console         0 Aug  2 22:34 langenus.xpi
-rw-r--r--    1 johnd    console         0 Aug  2 22:33 mail.xpi
-rw-r--r--    1 johnd    console         0 Aug  2 22:33 psm.xpi
-rw-r--r--    1 johnd    console         0 Aug  2 22:34 regus.xpi
-rw-r--r--    1 johnd    console         0 Aug  2 22:33 talkback.xpi
-rw-r--r--    1 johnd    console         0 Aug  2 22:32 xpcom.xpi

Expected Results:  I expected to be running 0.9.3 long before this

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

!win32

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

I saw a similar problem with this morning's 2001080308 build.  In my case, it
downloaded the first 2 xpis and then stopped downloading.  It then issued a
"Network Failure Error" which was not the case as the ftp site was still up (I
was getting a sweet 270Kbps on the full installer!!) and I was on IRC also.  The
only way I got it to work was with the full installer.  The net install would
not work.  Confirm and up severity.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I think this is/was a problem with the mozilla FTP server.
It seems to be busy (from the 0.9.3 Release).
I got an error with the Browser on ftp.mozilla.org (passive transfer)
"ALL Adresses are in use" (I think it means: All passive ports are in use)

A few people on #mz saw this (that is why I tested this).
I got the error only sometimes and I think that is the reason of this...
and it explains Christopher Aillon's problem. I think the installer opens a new
connection for every new XPI and it failed after 2 XPI's.
But as he downloaded the full installer, the ftp server had a free connection....

Comment 4

[Grace Bush]

Reporter,

Are you still seeing this problem? Have you been able to install since this was 
reported?

Comment 5

[John Deighan]

I will try to test this ASAP.  The most recent installs have had all the XPI's
included with the .tgz file.  Original problem was with FTP.  Stay tuned.

Comment 6

[John Deighan]

Just tried to install 0.9.4, which uses the FTP installer.  Install failed, but
at least it let me know it failed.  Nice job, retries and everything!  Not sure
if this is an FTP server problem (probable, since 0.9.4 was just released), or a
problem with my proxy (also probable), but the user interface problem (i.e.
reporting success when the download in fact failed) is fixed.. Go ahead and
declare victory on this one, guys.

Comment 7

[Grace Bush]

per comments

Comment 8

[Grace Bush]

verified