947923 - Defect - both Desktop and Metro mode fail to work after update

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 947916

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: Install/Update, defect)

Description

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Attachment: errors.zip

- on both Win 8.1 Pro 32-bit and 64-bit

STR

1. Launch Metro mode
2. Open the About flyout and start the update
3. Click the restart button

ER: after step 3, Nightly should restart in Metro mode

AR: after step 3, Nightly doesn't restart in Metro mode, and even if I close it, it still remains visible as a working process in Task Manager (so I have to kill it from there). Also, when trying to open Nightly in desktop mode, I get the errors shown in the attached .zip file.

Comment 1

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Note:

On Win 8.1 Pro 64-bit, I've also tried to uninstall Nightly and to reinstall it on the Desktop, but Nightly still failed to launch in Desktop mode, giving the same errors as above.

Comment 2

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

(In reply to Manuela Muntean [:Manuela] [QA] from comment #1)
> but Nightly still failed to launch in Desktop mode,
> giving the same errors as above.
yes, it's a general nightly issue starting with today's build

Comment 3

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

confirmed, nightly is busted on win8.

Comment 4

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

dupe of bug 947930

Comment 5

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly] from comment #4)
> dupe of bug 947930

thx