[Python-Dev] current 2.5 status (original) (raw)

Trent Mick trentm at ActiveState.com
Wed Apr 5 00:04:47 CEST 2006

[Tim Peters wrote]

Trent, FYI, on my box the invariable cause for

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file './python25d.dll' in a failed buildbot Windows compile step is that some previous run left behind a pythond.exe process that won't go away. I don't know why it won't go away on its own, or how it gets into that state, but I do know that once it happens it never fixes itself. You have to find the pythond process(es) and kill it yourself. Then the buildbot dance works fine again.

In this case it was because python_d.exe crashed and Windows then popped up a system modal dialog to tell me: hanging the process.

I wonder if it would be possible to write a "reaper" script that used some combination of EnumWindows, SendKeys, the Performance Monitoring APIs (Pdh* function) and some elbow grease to click these crash dialogs away.

Trent

-- Trent Mick TrentM at ActiveState.com

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