[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-3528888 ] [solution inside] Windows 7 installation failure
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Bugs item #3528888, was opened at 2012-05-22 10:37 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by class1o1 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=551954&aid=3528888&group_id=78018 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: installation Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: class101 (class1o1) Assigned to: Mark Hammond (mhammond) Summary: [solution inside] Windows 7 installation failure Initial Comment: If your installation of pywin32 on Windows 7 always end with close failed in file object destructor: sys.excepthook is missing lost sys.stderr This is maybe because you are running Windows under the "Administrator" account and anything you normally run is equal to a "run as Administrator" And paradoxically running the installation of pywin32 on Windows 7 as Administrator causes this error. So a workaround is to create another admin account net user Admin /add net user Admin <type your password> net localgroup Administrators Admin /add and then run the pywin32 installation with runas /user:Admin pywin32-217.win32-py2.7.exe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: class101 (class1o1) Date: 2012-05-27 03:17 Message: To note that on all of my Windows machines, first things I do is enabling the Administrator account to take ownage of it, and always disabling the UAC To me this is urgent to fix this for good mhammond because postscripts seems to generate files and its a bit dangerous to redistribute something that unstable out of the box because the we identify further errors and we have to investigate few hours to finally find out pywin32 was not 100% installed, I had made some research about this issue previously, it seems you applied previous patches for this few years ago, but I'm sorry to inform you 217 is still not stable and fails to install with reproducable cases. Also you may be instered to throw out then don't use the Administrator account, I'm working with computer each day this is my work and I notice pywin32 is only or really on of the few product I see failing under the Administrator account and working under a different admin account, but when you know how quircky is the Windows security scheme, its more than evident but definitely not a solution for me to use another Admin account, Windows is just too quircky for this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: class101 (class1o1) Date: 2012-05-22 10:43 Message: Bug identified and workaround tested working on Windows 7, 64-bit, English, main admin account: Administrator Windows 7, 64-bit, French, main admin account: Administrateur Windows 7, 64-bit, English, main admin account: Admin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=551954&aid=3528888&group_id=78018 |