[tahoe-dev] Windows 7 build error - Python.File class does not exist in the registry - WindowsError(5, 'Access is denied')

[Jim Dorrington]

Hi I have been unable to install Tahoe-LAFS on my Windows system (Windows 7
ultimate 64-bit)
Below is a log
Can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong?
Thanks


M:\Tahoe-LAFS>c:\python26\python setup.py build
running darcsver
setup.py darcsver: using extant version file ['src/allmydata/_version.py']
running develop
Not found: tahoe-deps
Not found: ../tahoe-deps
running egg_info
writing requirements to src\allmydata_tahoe.egg-info\requires.txt
writing src\allmydata_tahoe.egg-info\PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to src\allmydata_tahoe.egg-info\top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to
src\allmydata_tahoe.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to src\allmydata_tahoe.egg-info\entry_points.txt
reading manifest file 'src\allmydata_tahoe.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'src\allmydata_tahoe.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
running build_ext
Processing setuptools_darcs-1.2.12.egg
removing
'm:\tahoe-lafs\support\lib\site-packages\setuptools_darcs-1.2.12.egg' (and
everything under it)
Copying setuptools_darcs-1.2.12.egg to
m:\tahoe-lafs\support\lib\site-packages
setuptools-darcs 1.2.12 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Installed
m:\tahoe-lafs\support\lib\site-packages\setuptools_darcs-1.2.12.egg
Creating m:\tahoe-lafs\support\lib\site-packages\allmydata-tahoe.egg-link
(link to src)
allmydata-tahoe 1.8.2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Deleting support/Scripts\tahoe
Deleting support/Scripts\tahoe.pyscript
Installing tahoe.pyscript script to support/Scripts
Installing tahoe script to support/Scripts

Installed m:\tahoe-lafs\src
Processing dependencies for allmydata-tahoe==1.8.2
Searching for mock
Reading http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-dep-sdists/
Reading http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-lafs-dep-eggs/
Best match: mock 0.6.0
Downloading
http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-dep-sdists/mock-0.6.0.tar
.bz2
Processing mock-0.6.0.tar.bz2
Running mock-0.6.0\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
c:\users\jdorri~1\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-yblk3k\mock-0.6.0\egg-dist
-tmp
-cpukuw

Setting up environment to run scripts for the current user...
error: Setup script exited with error: I was going to associate the filetype
.pyscript with Python.File for the current user, but th
at won't work because the Python.File class does not exist in the registry,
as far as I can tell.
WindowsError(5, 'Access is denied')

M:\Tahoe-LAFS>