[spambayes-dev] Re: Problem with 1.0a9 Windows installer?

[Mark Hammond]

[Tony]
> OTOH, there have been three recent reports of this problem:
> """
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "addin.pyc", line 1191, in OnConnection
>   File "manager.pyc", line 908, in GetManager
>   File "manager.pyc", line 344, in __init__
>   File "manager.pyc", line 492, in LocateDataDirectory
>   File "win32com\shell\shell.pyc", line 9, in ?
>   File "win32com\shell\shell.pyc", line 7, in __load
> ImportError: DLL load failed: A device attached to the system is not
> functioning.
> """

That generally means their shell32.dll windows file is out of date - I would
like to know the specific symbol in question though - maybe you can ask a
reporter to zip up their shell32.dll?

Mark.