New submission from Mitch Frazier :
Distutils built installers will fail on Windows with a run-time exception of
STATUS_INVALID_CRUNTIME_PARAMETER, error-code: C417 if the python
installation directory (e.g. C:\Python27) is read-only for the user running the
installer. I've experienced this with the pyside and pywin32 installers on
Windows XP.
Using procmon I discovered that the installer fails when it tries to create the
installation log file in the python install directory. That led me to look at
the directory which is when I discovered that it was read only for my user
account. It's read-only because the Python installer was run as Administrator
and the other installers are being run from my user account.
Changing the directory to read-only for my account allows the installer to run
without problem.
Perhaps the installer could check for this and provide a friendlier response.
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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 144477
nosy: eric.araujo, mitchfrazier, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: distutils windows installer STATUS_INVALID_CRUNTIME_PARAMETER (C417)
exception when python dir is read only
type: crash
versions: Python 2.7
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