GAM-team / got-your-back

Got Your Back (GYB) is a command line tool for backing up your Gmail messages to your computer using Gmail's API over HTTPS.
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New Windows installation, project creation fails with "multiprocessing-fork" error #365

Closed spyguitar closed 2 years ago

spyguitar commented 2 years ago

Full steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Download and install GYB from https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back/releases/download/v1.60/gyb-1.60-windows-x86_64.msi
  2. C:\gyb\gyb-setup-bat launches automatically, and I enter my email address, OR
  3. run c:\gyb\gyb --action create-project --email [Google email address]

Expected outcome (what are you trying to do?):

Actual outcome (what errors or bad behavior do you see instead?):

Looking at Process Explorer, 2484 is the PID of GYB.exe; it has three NamedPipe handles, two of which are called "\Device\NamedPipe\pyc-2484-0-sv13popd". I checked the discussion group and this hasn't been mentioned yet; a quick Google search indicates this might be something wrong with the way Python for Windows is implementing multiprocessing.

dantasfiles commented 2 years ago

Same issue on Windows 11 Home, version 10.0.22000