Bug 23527

Summary:

Update breaks Webkit

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Juan Taylor <juantaylor>

Component:

New Bugs

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

Severity:

Normal

CC:

mrowe

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

OS X 10.5

Attachments:

Description	Flags
For bug 23527	none
this is what happens to the webkit icon after the error	none

Description Juan Taylor 2009-01-25 02:53:28 PST

This morning I was prompted by Webkit to install a new update. I forget what the build number was on the dialog. I accepted. After that when I launched Webkit a message was displayed: 
"Unable to launch Safari

Webkit is located at a path containing an 
unsupported character. Please move Webkit to a
different location and try again."

I checked, but webkit was still in my "Applications" folder.

I downloaded the dmg file manually from the webkit site using Firefox and replaced my current app. Now it works again. Not sure if the next auto update will break it again.

Comment 1 Juan Taylor 2009-01-25 02:54:59 PST

Created attachment 27011 [details]
For bug 23527

Comment 2 Mark Rowe (bdash) 2009-01-25 03:05:16 PST

That error will be displayed if the path where your copy of WebKit lives contains a ":" character.  The ":" character is used as a delimiter so cannot appear in the path to the WebKit application.  This is not new behaviour, it has been present in the nightly builds since day zero.

Comment 3 Juan Taylor 2009-01-25 04:36:01 PST

Created attachment 27017 [details]
this is what happens to the webkit icon after the error

Comment 4 Mark Rowe (bdash) 2009-01-25 04:39:42 PST

I don't know what you've done, but that's clearly not the WebKit icon.  I suspect you've somehow copied another application over WebKit in some manner.