Python 2.2 unwise.exe

[Bengt Richter]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:52:36 -0400, Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote:

>[Robin Becker]
>> On the office machine well I installed Python 2.2.1 last Friday evening.
>> My unwise.exe is now gone as of Tuesday 10:00 am.
>>
>> I had a hard crash Monday morning.
>
>Did you have a previous version of 2.2 on your machine, and uninstall it
>before installing 2.2.1?
>
>On a clean Win2K Pro box, I'm finally able to provoke this (or at least one
>of its causes) reproducibly, via:
>
>1. Boot the box.
>
>2. Install 2.2.1.
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>3. Uninstall 2.2.1.
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What happens if you shut down and boot here?
(I'm wondering if there's a deferred delete waiting for a reboot
which doesn't get cleared by the re-install at 4.)

>4. Install 2.2.1 again.  Note that \Python22\UNWISE.EXE is there.
>
>5. Reboot the box (just logging off and on again isn't enough).
>
Deferred delete happens during reboot??

>6. Now \Python22\UNWISE.EXE no longer exists.
>
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Regards,
Bengt Richter