{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1986","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1986/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1986/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1986/events","html_url":"https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/1986","id":128207613,"number":1986,"title":"Permissions error on conda create and others on Windows","user":{"login":"PeterDSteinberg","id":1445602,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1445602?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg","html_url":"https://github.com/PeterDSteinberg","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2016-01-22T17:48:02Z","updated_at":"2016-01-22T18:46:47Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I installed Miniconda for a specific user on Windows.  When running as that user, I did this command:\r\n\r\n```\r\nconda create --copy -n anaocnda-builder chalmers\r\n```\r\nIt looked okay until `Extracting Packages`, then I get:\r\n```\r\nExtracting packages ...\r\nAn unexpected error has occurred, please consider sending the            |  10%\r\nfollowing traceback to the conda GitHub issue tracker at:\r\n\r\n    https://github.com/conda/conda/issues\r\n\r\nInclude the output of the command 'conda info' in your report.\r\n\r\n\r\nTraceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\Scripts\\conda-script.py\", line 4, in <module\r\n>\r\n    sys.exit(main())\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\site-packages\\conda\\cli\\main.py\", line 1\r\n95, in main\r\n    args_func(args, p)\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\site-packages\\conda\\cli\\main.py\", line 2\r\n02, in args_func\r\n    args.func(args, p)\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\site-packages\\conda\\cli\\main_create.py\",\r\n line 49, in execute\r\n    install.install(args, parser, 'create')\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\site-packages\\conda\\cli\\install.py\", lin\r\ne 423, in install\r\n    plan.execute_actions(actions, index, verbose=not args.quiet)\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\site-packages\\conda\\plan.py\", line 537,\r\nin execute_actions\r\n    inst.execute_instructions(plan, index, verbose)\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\site-packages\\conda\\instructions.py\", li\r\nne 148, in execute_instructions\r\n    cmd(state, arg)\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\site-packages\\conda\\instructions.py\", li\r\nne 62, in EXTRACT_CMD\r\n    install.extract(config.pkgs_dirs[0], arg)\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\site-packages\\conda\\install.py\", line 48\r\n5, in extract\r\n    t.extractall(path=path)\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\tarfile.py\", line 2078, in extractall\r\n    self.extract(tarinfo, path)\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\tarfile.py\", line 2115, in extract\r\n    self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name))\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\tarfile.py\", line 2191, in _extract_memb\r\ner\r\n    self.makefile(tarinfo, targetpath)\r\n  File \"C:\\Users\\anaconda\\Miniconda\\lib\\tarfile.py\", line 2231, in makefile\r\n    with bltn_open(targetpath, \"wb\") as target:\r\nIOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'C:\\\\Users\\\\anaconda\\\\Miniconda\\\\pkgs\\\\p\r\nython-2.7.11-1\\\\DLLs\\\\_ctypes.pyd'\r\n```\r\nIt seems like there is a permissions or lock issue that doesn't allow touching the current python package dir?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/comments/174007120","html_url":"https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/1986#issuecomment-174007120","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conda/conda/issues/1986","id":174007120,"user":{"login":"PeterDSteinberg","id":1445602,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1445602?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg","html_url":"https://github.com/PeterDSteinberg","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PeterDSteinberg/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-01-22T18:46:47Z","updated_at":"2016-01-22T18:46:47Z","body":"@srossross does the windows deployment with 2 Miniconda installations make sense to you?  "}}