Fresh install v1.8.1 on win11 fails with specterd exited with code 1

Trying to run / fresh install specter-desktop on win11 system. Unfortunately fails with a specterd exited with code 1

Logerror does not directly indicates a way around the issue

2022-02-03T18:35:01.179Z [info] : Framework Ready! Starting tray Icon ...
2022-02-03T18:35:01.201Z [info] : Framework Ready! Initializing Main-Window, populating Menu ...
2022-02-03T18:35:01.277Z [info] : Creating specterd-binaries folder
2022-02-03T18:35:01.277Z [info] : Updating C:\Users\UserId\.specter\app_settings.json : {"mode":"specterd","specterURL":"http://localhost:25441","tor":false,"proxyURL":"socks5://127.0.0.1:9050","specterdVersion":"v1.8.1","specterdHash":"466d34f9c4fc78b774815733333afce8240862a57e053f0826aee3700af219a4b","specterdCLIArgs":"","versionInitialized":false}
2022-02-03T18:35:01.280Z [info] : Using version 
2022-02-03T18:35:01.280Z [info] : https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/download/v1.8.1/specterd-v1.8.1-win64.zip
2022-02-03T18:35:01.839Z [info] : content-type:
2022-02-03T18:35:01.839Z [info] : content-length:
2022-02-03T18:35:05.940Z [info] : Starting specterd C:\Users\UserId\.specter\specterd-binaries/specterd.exe server,--no-filelog
2022-02-03T18:35:14.719Z [info] : stderr-SPECTERD: INFO in server: Configuration: cryptoadvance.specter.config.ProductionConfig

2022-02-03T18:35:14.723Z [info] : stderr-SPECTERD: INFO in specter_migrator: Initiated MigDataManager(C:\Users\UserId/.specter\migration_data.json events:0 execs:0 )
SPECTERD: INFO in specter_migrator: A new version has been started compared to last time: v1.8.1

2022-02-03T18:35:14.728Z [info] : stderr-Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "specterd.py", line 4, in <module>
  File "click\core.py", line 829, in __call__
  File "click\core.py", line 782, in main
  File "click\core.py", line 1259, in invoke
  File "click\core.py", line 1066, in invoke
  File "click\core.py", line 610, in invoke
  File "cryptoadvance\specter\cli\cli_server.py", line 114, in server
  File "cryptoadvance\specter\server.py", line 104, in init_app
  File "cryptoadvance\specter\util\specter_migrator.py", line 125, in execute_migrations
  File "cryptoadvance\specter\util\specter_migrator.py", line 107, in plan_migration
  File "cryptoadvance\specter\util\specter_migrator.py", line 161, in get_migration_classes
  File "Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks\rthooks\pyi_rth_pkgutil.py", line 71, in _pyi_pkgutil_iter_modules
AssertionError
[22640] Failed to execute script 'specterd' due to unhandled exception!

2022-02-03T18:35:14.728Z [info] : stdout-Initializing HWI...

2022-02-03T18:35:15.095Z [error] : specterd exited with code 1
2022-02-03T18:35:15.096Z [info] : child process exited with code 1

[marcelrv]

I installed the 1.8.2-pre and was able to finish the install. Do you have a ramdisk or some fancy filesystem-layout or anthing like that? No, just windows 11, and running the installer. Note, I did see that specter installed stuff all over the place, e.g. I found folder in in the [user]/.specter , in [user]/appdata/roaming, in [user]appdata/low

[k9ert]

Thanks for the report. I have an idea what the reason for this is. It’s a variation of https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/6537 but i’m still confused why this is an issue under win as we fixed it by #1533 and monkey-patching the hook, but only for MacOS.

So maybe we need to do that for specific versions of windows as well. The problem is described in the issue at the pyinstaller. Maybe Windows is also using two different folders where stuff is unpacked or it uses symlinks like MacOS.

In that case, my solution was:

• Adding two lines to the script which checks whether the symlink is the issue
• copy the hook before the build starts to the folder from where pyinstaller is loading the runtime-hooks.

Help would be much appreciated.