988980 - during upgrade of open webapps, error: "an existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Web Apps (PWAs), defect, P1)

Description

[Bill Walker [:bwalker] [@wfwalker]]

Attachment: Screenshot_2014-03-26-20-49-04.png

I installed a few open webapps using firefox aurora for android.

Some number of days later I received a notification saying 13 of them could be updated

I clicked on the notification, saw a bunch of downloading, then additional approval screens, all of which led to failures with the message "an existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed"

Comment 1

[Bill Walker [:bwalker] [@wfwalker]]

Attachment: failure message screenshot

Comment 2

[James Hugman [:jhugman] [@jhugman]]

The error means that the APK you're downloading now (from the APK Factory) has a different signature to the one you downloaded earlier (from the APK Factory). This should, essentially, never happen.

Comment 3

[Austin King [:ozten]]

I can reproduce this, because I had been switching environments. Update will hit whichever is your current environment causing a mismatch.

I don't believe this is what is causing bwalker's issue as he is pointed at production.

It's possible it is Bug#988450, checking.

Comment 4

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Created "Bell Bottoms" which is an app that is always out of date
http://ozten.com/random/apk-factory/
Click the "Install Bell Bottoms" button.

Updates show up in the Factory after 30 minutes.

Using this method, I didn't repro the issue.

I'll keep my Andorid pinned to production for 24 hours also.

Comment 5

[Bill Walker [:bwalker] [@wfwalker]]

(In reply to Austin King [:ozten] from comment #3)
> I can reproduce this, because I had been switching environments. Update will
> hit whichever is your current environment causing a mismatch.
> 
> I don't believe this is what is causing bwalker's issue as he is pointed at
> production.
> 
> It's possible it is Bug#988450, checking.

Almost all of the apps that triggered this error I may well have installed either using a different Firefox or before updating my factoryURL pref, so I think your comment 3 applies to most of them. However, I only just became addicted to "2+2=2048", and I'm pretty sure I installed it using a Beta or Aurora that points to production factory only 9 days ago.

Comment 6

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Per bug 1235869, we're going to disable the Android web runtime, so we won't fix this bug in it.

(This is part of a bulk resolution of bugs in the Firefox for Android::Web Apps component, from which I attempted to exclude bugs that are not specific to the runtime, but it's possible that I included one accidentally.  If so, I'm sorry, and please reopen the bug!)