| Issue Number | 5372 |
|---|---|
| Summary | Remove corrupted gen_py directory |
| Created | 2025-03-05 17:05:40 |
| Issue Type | Improvement |
| Submitted By | Kline, Robert (NIH/NCI) [C] |
| Assigned To | Kline, Robert (NIH/NCI) [C] |
| Status | Open |
| Resolved | |
| Resolution | |
| Path | /home/bkline/backups/jira/ocecdr/issue.497157 |
Sometimes the gen_py directory, which registers Python
as a Windows scripting language, gets corrupted. Unfortunately, when
that happens it is not sufficient to run the package's script to
installs that directory, because that script doesn't do anything in that
situation: it sees that the directory is already installed, but it
doesn't detect the corruption. This ticket needs to do three things:
modify install-python.cmd adding a step to detect
and remove gen_py
create a new script to just remove and recreate that directory
modify the instructions to explain this problem and its solution
It appears that Robin's laptop is infected by this gen_py bug now.
Do you already have a script available that we could test on her machine, ~bkline ?
Yes. She'll need to get a fresh copy of the CDRSetup17 folder from
the cdr_deployments share.
We tried to run the script on Robin's laptop but the user is prompted to enter authentication for an admin user and Robin doesn't have the option to "run with elevated permission".
We will have to submit a CBIIT ticket to have them run the script for her.
Instructions for CBIIT:
Close XMetaL
Open the CDRSetup17 folder on the desktop
Double-click the script "repair-python-scripting.cmd"
Enter admin username/password
When completed, open XMetaL to confirm the error messages are gone.
It's possible that running the script to install Python would work. This would be true if the mechanism CBIIT is using to allow users to run the setup scripts is to identify specific scripts which are approved for execution by a non-administrator. Unfortunately, we have been unable to get a clear explanation from them about how exactly the mechanism they're using actually works (I suspect most of them don't really know themselves). The incentives for proceding with your proposed approach described above are:
if the scripts have to be individually approved, then this new script will get the papal blessing
reinstalling Python would take longer
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