Daniel Veditz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
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> Martin Kutschker wrote:
> >
> > Daniel Veditz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Martin Kutschker wrote:
> > > >
> > > > What's this error? Without the locale the app is not of much use.
> > >
> > > http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpinstall/src/nsInstall.h#173
> > >
> > > The chrome registry returned an error. The most common causes of this
are
> > > the path used for registration not pointing at a contents.rdf (either
> > > forgetting to package one, or a typo in the path), or some error with
the
> > > contents.rdf itself.
>
> OK, I found one more case where this error is given. If you used the
> DELAYED_CHROME attribute then instead of registering the chrome right away
> we write to to the bin/chrome/installed-chrome.txt file and registration
> occurs on the next start.
>
> If we can't write to that file (a potential problem on Unix where people
> mark their apps read-only) then that error is returned.
>
> On the other hand, if the installation directory were read-only I would
have
> expected your install to fail earlier, at item 1 of 4 when you installed
> app.jar itself.
The directory (and installed-chrome.txt) is not read-only - but yes, the
writing of app.jar did not happen (could it be deleted on cancelInstall?).
But no error was reported on this. Strangely enough the error did occur
while registering the locale and not the content.
Masi
PS: The installer did also work on another Linux installation.
