Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com:
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superseder: - friendly errors for UAC misbehavior in windows installers
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anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com added the comment:
Please add issue8908 as superseder.
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anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com added the comment:
Thanks for thorough explanation. Can somebody close it with some resolution
like Can't fix. OS level problem?
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Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org:
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resolution: - invalid
status: open - closed
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anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com added the comment:
Is it possible to detect this situation and display more user-friendly error
message with a reference to this issue?
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New submission from anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com:
Running `python setup.py bdist_wininst --user-access-control=force` produces
invalid installer that fails to install with the error message:
Failed to start elevated process (ShellExecute returned 5)
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assignee: tarek
anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com added the comment:
See also issue8871 and original report
http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2533
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Mark Hammond mhamm...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
Is it possible the installer is being run from a network share? A comment from
PC/bdist_wininst/install.c:
// interesting failure scenario that has been seen: initial executable
// runs from a network drive - but
anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com added the comment:
It is local Ext2 partition system accessible through http://www.fs-driver.org/
on the same HDD as primary system partition. But there is definitely issue with
difference between drives.
There is no problem if the package is executed
anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com added the comment:
Attaching installer file for testing.
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17520/wget-0.6.win32.exe
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Koen van de Sande k...@tibed.net added the comment:
This is listed as a known limitation of the Ext2 FS driver. From
http://www.fs-driver.org/relnotes.html :
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Running programs on an Ext2/Ext3 volume on Windows Vista
Currently it is not possible to start a program on Vista if UAC is
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