[issue1384175] random module - Provider DLL failed to initialize correctly

Albert Zeyer added the comment: Ah thanks, that explains why it failed for me, and why it works after my fix, which was anyway what I intended. I mostly posted my comment here in case someone else hits this, so he has another thing to check/debug. I don't think that there is a bug on Python's

[issue1384175] random module - Provider DLL failed to initialize correctly

eryksun added the comment: I forgot to set errcheck: import ctypes userenv = ctypes.WinDLL('userenv', use_last_error=True) def errcheck_bool(result, func, args): if not result: raise ctypes.WinError(ctypes.get_last_error()) return args userenv.Creat

[issue1384175] random module - Provider DLL failed to initialize correctly

eryksun added the comment: Albert, this issue was opened for Python 2.4 and was closed over 6 years ago. Open a new issue if you believe there's a bug or room for improvement in a currently supported Python version. FYI, on Windows _PyOS_URandom first initializes the Crypto API by calling [C

[issue1384175] random module - Provider DLL failed to initialize correctly

Albert Zeyer added the comment: Note that there are still people who get this error in some strange cases, me included. E.g.: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27904936/python-exe-file-crashes-while-launching-on-windows-xp/32137554#32137554 This happened at a call to `os.urandom` for me. This

[issue1384175] random module - Provider DLL failed to initialize correctly

Silas S. Brown added the comment: After further investigation I'm suspecting that this issue is actually due to the process running out of RAM. ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue1384175] random module - Provider DLL failed to initialize correctly

Silas S. Brown added the comment: I got a very similar error on an Otek Pocket PC running Windows Mobile 2003 SE and the latest version of pythonce from pythonce.sourceforge.net. The error is: File "C:\devl\release\PythonCE-2.5-20061219\Python-2.5-wince\Lib\random.py", line 108, in seed : [Err

[issue1384175] random module - Provider DLL failed to initialize correctly

Changes by Martin v. Löwis : -- resolution: -> works for me status: open -> closed versions: +3rd party -Python 2.4 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue1384175] random module - Provider DLL failed to initialize correctly

Daniel Diniz added the comment: Given MvL's diagnostics and lack of response from OP, suggest closing. -- nosy: +ajaksu2 ___ Python tracker ___ ___