| msg25724 - (view) |
Author: Patrick Vrijlandt (pvrijlandt) |
Date: 2005-07-05 18:31 |
| concerns: python 2.4.1 msi When trying to do a non-admin install on Windows XP Pro, the installer probably tries to make shortcuts in a non-accessible directory. The status-window is displaying: creating shortcuts A messagebox appears and says the installer lacks priveliges on a certain directory: please try again as an administrator, (which i am obviously not). The cancel-option now leads to a rollback of the installation. |
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| msg25725 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *  |
Date: 2005-07-06 05:16 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=21627 It works fine for me... Can you please install with msiexec /i python-2.4.1.msi /l*v python.log and attach a zipped version of python.log? |
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| msg25726 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2005-08-06 12:47 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Closed because of lack of response. |
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| msg25727 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2005-08-06 12:48 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Oops, missed the attachment. |
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| msg25728 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2005-08-06 12:58 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=21627 According to the log file, there was an error accessing \\bw2\snelkop\2003\info\programma's\Python 2.4 How come your Menu folder is on a network drive? What is the ACL on that folder? |
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| msg25729 - (view) |
Author: Patrick Vrijlandt (pvrijlandt) |
Date: 2005-08-11 19:11 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=1307917 These are difficult questions for me. I don't know if my ACL (access control list?) is on that folder. I'm almost certain the sysadmins did this for us. They try to get as much userfiles as possible on the network. They are also pretty restrictive (and understaffed) Backup is done only for network drives. The advantage is that I can access my user files from different computers (without using a server OS) My start menu is almost empty. All programs we are able to use, are accessible through a shortcut on the desktop. I probably can read the startmenu folder but not write it. "My documents" refers to a networked directory. I have full access there and can run programs from there. I suppose a patch would be to make more configuration options in the installer (Do you want to make shortcuts? Do you want to make them here?). I would make shortcuts on my desktop. (Yes, I can write there. Files sometimes go to c:\windows\desktop, and sometimes to a networked drive) What would be needed to run python (and pythonwin) from a memory-stick or cd-rom? If that would work, my problem would be solved too. Even better: one installation would make python accessible from any computer on our network I would login to. BTW: some drives (like C:) are hidden from explorer. I cannot do start -> run (but I can make a shortcut to cmd on my desktop, and run from there). I'm not sure I can get to regedit and/or do anything useful there. |
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| msg25730 - (view) |
Author: Patrick Vrijlandt (pvrijlandt) |
Date: 2005-08-11 19:14 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=1307917 These are difficult questions for me. I don't know if my ACL (access control list?) is on that folder. I'm almost certain the sysadmins did this for us. They try to get as much userfiles as possible on the network. They are also pretty restrictive (and understaffed) Backup is done only for network drives. The advantage is that I can access my user files from different computers (without using a server OS) My start menu is almost empty. All programs we are able to use, are accessible through a shortcut on the desktop. I probably can read the startmenu folder but not write it. "My documents" refers to a networked directory. I have full access there and can run programs from there. I suppose a patch would be to make more configuration options in the installer (Do you want to make shortcuts? Do you want to make them here?). I would make shortcuts on my desktop. (Yes, I can write there. Files sometimes go to c:\windows\desktop, and sometimes to a networked drive) What would be needed to run python (and pythonwin) from a memory-stick or cd-rom? If that would work, my problem would be solved too. Even better: one installation would make python accessible from any computer on our network I would login to. BTW: some drives (like C:) are hidden from explorer. I cannot do start -> run (but I can make a shortcut to cmd on my desktop, and run from there). I'm not sure I can get to regedit and/or do anything useful there. |
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| msg25731 - (view) |
Author: Patrick Vrijlandt (pvrijlandt) |
Date: 2006-10-02 21:48 |
| Logged In: YES user_id=1307917 This bug still exists with 2.5 As a workaround, I found out that I could install for all users. |
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| msg65074 - (view) |
Author: Mark Hammond (mhammond) * |
Date: 2008-04-07 14:50 |
| I can repro this too using python-2.6a2.msi - after selecting "just for me" on XP running as a non-admin user, I see an error message regarding permissions. On vista, I get an elevation prompt (and if I hit "allow", installation proceeds as if I had selected 'for all users' - ie, HKLM\Python is written, rather than HKCU, shortcuts are written to "all users" folder, uninstall requires elevation) I'm attaching the log after canceling installation at the elevation prompt under Vista. |
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| msg65106 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2008-04-07 19:48 |
| > I can repro this too using python-2.6a2.msi - after selecting "just for > me" on XP running as a non-admin user, I see an error message regarding > permissions. I think this is mixing up entirely unrelated issues. 2.6a2 is known to require admin privileges; see the caveat on the release page. |
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| msg65114 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2008-04-07 20:10 |
| I'm closing this as "won't fix". I don't really see a way to support this kind of setup (i.e. the start menu is on a network drive to which the installer service cannot write). |
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