pythonservice.exe registration failed used by another process

Jacob Nolan via python-win32 <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:29:21 +0000
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Hi all,

I've been having a reoccurring error across multiple windows installs 
and python versions (3.9.*-3.11.*) when performing an install of a 
python windows service.

This is the result of calling *python service_config.py install *on 3.9.5

The error is:

|*copying host exe 
'E:\jacobnolan\installed_programs\programs\python39\lib\site-packages\win32\pythonservice.exe' 
-> 'E:\*|*|jacobnolan||\installed_programs\programs\python39\pythonservice.exe' 
Error installing service: The process cannot access the file because it 
is being used by another process. (32)|*


For this system, this is not the first python service I have installed. 
Additionally I've installed multiple services while other python 
services have been running.

As stated in the error it looks to be the destination pythonservice.exe 
is being used by another process, so can't be replaced by my installing 
process.


Is there an approach to handle this?

  * I'm not sure if pythonservice.exe really needs to be replaced each
    install. I was contemplating looking at the service registration
    process to determine if this step can be skipped.
  * Or if I should specify the location of the pythonservice.exe now it
    is in the correct location to access the appropriate DLL's? e.g 
    win32serviceutil service use exeName?
      o https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/blob/fcab71452cc8aefeb23b897a03753e34298d555f/win32/Lib/win32serviceutil.py#L215

Thank you,
Jacob
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    <p>Hi all,</p>
    <p>I've been having a reoccurring error across multiple windows
      installs and python versions (3.9.*-3.11.*) when performing an
      install of a python windows service. <br>
    </p>
    <p>This is the result of calling <b>python service_config.py
        install </b>on 3.9.5<br>
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    <p>The error is:<br>
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        <pre><code id="code"><span>	<b>copying host exe 'E:\jacobnolan\installed_programs\programs\python39\lib\site-packages\win32\pythonservice.exe' -&gt; 'E:\</b></span></code><b><code
        id="code"><span>jacobnolan</span></code><code id="code"><span>\inst</span><span>alled_programs\programs\python39\pythonservice.exe'</span>
<span>	Error installing service: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (32)</span></code></b></pre>
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    <div class="moz-signature"><br>
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    <div class="moz-signature">For this system, this is not the first
      python service I have installed. Additionally I've installed
      multiple services while other python services have been running. 
      <br>
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    <div class="moz-signature">As stated in the error it looks to be the
      destination pythonservice.exe is being used by another process, so
      can't be replaced by my installing process.<br>
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    <div class="moz-signature"><br>
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    <div class="moz-signature">Is there an approach to handle this? <br>
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        <li>I'm not sure if pythonservice.exe really needs to be
          replaced each install. I was contemplating looking at the
          service registration process to determine if this step can be
          skipped.  <br>
        </li>
        <li>Or if I should specify the location of the pythonservice.exe
          now it is in the correct location to access the appropriate
          DLL's? e.g  win32serviceutil service <span
class="blob-code-inner blob-code-marker js-code-nav-pass js-skip-tagsearch"
            data-code-marker="-"><span class="pl-s1 x">use exeName?</span></span></li>
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          <li><span
class="blob-code-inner blob-code-marker js-code-nav-pass js-skip-tagsearch"
              data-code-marker="-"><span class="pl-s1 x"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/blob/fcab71452cc8aefeb23b897a03753e34298d555f/win32/Lib/win32serviceutil.py#L215">https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/blob/fcab71452cc8aefeb23b897a03753e34298d555f/win32/Lib/win32serviceutil.py#L215</a><br>
              </span></span></li>
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    <div class="moz-signature">Thank you,</div>
    <div class="moz-signature">Jacob<br>
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