[Bug 496839] Re: xulrunner never fully installs

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Why doesn't anyone reply?!

Is anyone even the least bit interested in this problem? It is a very
serious issue for me. I'm a little shocked no one has even asked me for
further detail or recommended some way to log this error..... (it does't
seem to log anywhere by the way.. I've checked the logs for apt, dpkg,
and syslog).

It affects ALL versions of xulrunner since 1.9.1. It affects ALL
versions of Ubuntu since Jaunty.

I had the same problem when I upgraded to Lucid.

xulrunner-1.9.2 never installs.
the postinst script never finishes.
i have once again edited the script to make sure everything gets done, but I have NO IDEA what sort of side effects could come up.

Here it is again, with all the "if" statements commented out to make
sure the script runs all the way through.

#!/bin/sh
set -e

XUL_VERSION=1.9.2
GRE_VERSION=`/usr/bin/xulrunner-$XUL_VERSION --gre-version`

#if [ "$1" = "configure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-upgrade" ]; then
        /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/xulrunner \
                xulrunner /usr/bin/xulrunner-$XUL_VERSION 50
#	if test -e /usr/lib/xulrunner-$GRE_VERSION/.autoreg; then
		touch /usr/lib/xulrunner-$GRE_VERSION/.autoreg
#	fi

	# Remove possible left-over
#	if [ -f /etc/ld.so.conf.d/xulrunner-$XUL_VERSION ] ; then
		rm -f /etc/ld.so.conf.d/xulrunner-$XUL_VERSION
#	fi

	ldconfig
#fi


** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: xulrunner-1.9.1
+ Binary package hint: xulrunner-1.9.1, xulrunner-1.9.2
  
- Excuse me for posting with such little technical detail, but there's a
- reason for that.
- 
- I made a botched attempt to partially upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic and
- then back down again.
- 
- Going both ways I ran into trouble with xulrunner-1.9.1.
- 
- I have also run into this problem on a clean install of Karmic while
- dist-upgrading.
- 
- Specifically, xulrunner never finishes installing... it gives a
- configuration message and stops there forever.
+ , xulrunner never finishes installing... it gives a configuration
+ message and stops there forever.
  
  If I killall xulrunner-bin, the rest of the installation process goes
  on, but it breaks xulrunner, firefox, yelp, desktopcouch, and several
  other packages depending on what's installed at the time.
  
  apport claims (at the end of dist-upgrade, after killing xulrunner-bin)
  that it will NOT log anything as this is the result of a "previous
  failure" of which I also find no logging.... this is interesting for me
  because I've never actually seen a message from apport appear while not
  using apport...
  
  I have attempted to compensate by forced purge of xulrunner and all
  dependent packages, but that doesn't seem like a decent solution to me.
  
  Which reminds me: xulrunner cannot be removed either, except by dpkg
  with --force-all. Otherwise it tries to configure itself to infinity
  again.

** Changed in: xulrunner-1.9.1 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: xulrunner-1.9.1, xulrunner-1.9.2
  
- , xulrunner never finishes installing... it gives a configuration
- message and stops there forever.
+ xulrunner never finishes installing... it gives a configuration message
+ and stops there forever.
  
  If I killall xulrunner-bin, the rest of the installation process goes
  on, but it breaks xulrunner, firefox, yelp, desktopcouch, and several
  other packages depending on what's installed at the time.
  
  apport claims (at the end of dist-upgrade, after killing xulrunner-bin)
  that it will NOT log anything as this is the result of a "previous
  failure" of which I also find no logging.... this is interesting for me
  because I've never actually seen a message from apport appear while not
  using apport...
  
  I have attempted to compensate by forced purge of xulrunner and all
  dependent packages, but that doesn't seem like a decent solution to me.
  
  Which reminds me: xulrunner cannot be removed either, except by dpkg
  with --force-all. Otherwise it tries to configure itself to infinity
  again.

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xulrunner never fully installs
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