[Bug 869311] [NEW] searchplugins installation damaged after natty->oneiric upgrade

[Max Bowsher]

Public bug reported:

I did a natty->oneiric distribution upgrade today, and was left with
"Ask.com" as the only option in the Firefox search box.

The upgrade was from/to the following versions of the firefox package:

7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

After the upgrade /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/distribution was an empty
directory, not a symlink as it is supposed to be.

>From /var/log/dpkg.log, I can see that the last upgrade to firefox from
natty-updates was a full week ago, so I'm certain that I still had
Google showing in the search box before the dist-upgrade. (Additionally,
the mtime of the spurious /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/distribution directory
matches timestamps in /var/log/dpkg.log for the unpack of the oneiric
package)


I also upgraded a second system natty->oneiric simultaneously - that one
did *not* manifest the problem.  The only pertinent difference that I
can see on that system is that it had not been upgraded with SRUs for
several weeks, and as such still had firefox 6.0.2+build2+nobinonly-
0ubuntu0.11.04.1 installed.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Critical
     Assignee: Micah Gersten (micahg)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu Oneiric)
     Importance: Critical
     Assignee: Micah Gersten (micahg)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: oneiric regression-release

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