[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-3530195 ] errors towards the end of installation.

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Bugs item #3530195, was opened at 2012-05-28 01:37
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Category: installation
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: 3860654 ()
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: errors towards the end of installation.

Initial Comment:
While trying to install pywin32-217.win-amd64-py2.6.exe, I get following errors towards the end of installation.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 612, in <module>

  File "<string>", line 322, in install

  File "<string>", line 160, in LoadSystemModule

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.


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Comment By: hasenpfeffer2 (hasenpfeffer2)
Date: 2012-11-26 13:57

Message:
I found some more information about my problems related to post install
script failures I was experiencing.

The most interesting is that the installer does not seem to work when the
logged-in account is not a local account.  I am a member of Administrators
on my machine, but my account is a network account, and the post install
script always fails at the end of the installer with a sys.stderr not found
and such.  By creating a local Admin account and using that account to
start the installer, then the post install script works.  Can a change be
made to allow non-local administrator accounts work?

I believe my original problems were not related to installing VS2008 now. 
I had caused most of my problems by using a custom pythonxx.dll that did
not include the correct manifest for VS2008 dlls.  Once I started using the
shipping pythonxx.dll, then things worked mostly as expected, except for
the above non-local admin problem.

Incidentally, I also found that having the pythonxx.dll in the same folder
as the pywin32....exe installer caused my administrator problem to go away
as well.  So, normally I always get the sys.stderr missing failure.  If the
pythonxx.dll is in the same folder as the installer executable, then the
post install script works fine even under a non-local admin account.

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Comment By: hasenpfeffer2 (hasenpfeffer2)
Date: 2012-11-21 08:22

Message:
I'll try adding on to this instead of making a new one...

I have gotten the DLL load failed error in all runs of the pywin32 win32
installer I have ever done.  This is on many different machines, with
different Windows versions.  The post install script has never worked
within the installer.

I got around the problem by running the post install script manually on the
cmd line with the -install parameter.  This has always worked.

Then one day I happen to install VS2008 Express Edition to do some
development work with Python.  Ever since I installed VS2008, the post
install script now runs properly at the end of the installer.

I uninstalled VS2008 to see how the installer would react.  I now get a
sys.excepthook missing and stderr not found error.  Though, I suspect, it
was trying to print the DLL load failed exception and couldn't.  Just
speculation, though.

I would recommend someone try using the installer on a system that has
never had VS2008 installed and see if the DLL load failed error can be
reproduced.

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Comment By: D-Mac (dcmacleo)
Date: 2012-10-28 13:38

Message:
OK, got ambitious and looked it up myself! ;)

Here's what worked for me for others:

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/33808-PyWin32-212.win32-py2.6-silent-install

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Comment By: D-Mac (dcmacleo)
Date: 2012-10-28 13:18

Message:
I get this install error with 217 on both Vista 32 and 64, w/ 32bit Python
2.6 on both. Is there a manual install method? I'd like to use the library
very much. Thanks.

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Comment By: Glenn Linderman (guruglenn)
Date: 2012-07-06 02:05

Message:
Build 217.1 works for me.

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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2012-07-06 00:14

Message:
I put a build up at
http://starship.python.net/~skippy/downloads/pywin32-217.1.win-amd64-py3.3.exe
- it works for me here, but it would be great if anyone experiencing this
problem could test it out.  It is being slow to upload, so give it 30 mins
after this message was posted - the filesize is 8,441,923.

  I'll make a real release soon...

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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2012-07-05 00:36

Message:
These problems all appear to be specific to 3.3.  Sadly pywin32-217 was
built with vc2008 where 3.3 recently moved to vs2010.  I'm looking into
it...

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Comment By: Glenn Linderman (guruglenn)
Date: 2012-07-04 23:28

Message:
Just for kicks, I added a print statement in LoadSystemModule in
pywin32_postinstall.py, and the module it cannot load, on my system, is

c:\python33\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32\pywintypes33.dll

This probably doesn't surprise you since that is what the comments imply...
The file exists in that location.

Is there something else I can do to help debug this problem?

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Comment By: Glenn Linderman (guruglenn)
Date: 2012-07-04 18:13

Message:
I get the same error trying to install pywin32-217.win-amd64-py3.3.exe

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