Error on Startup *SOLVED*

[st1x]

Hi Guys,

I get the below error on start up, it's a brand new Win 7 64bit enterprise install on a VM with a freshly downloaded verison of EventGhost, any ideas why this is happening?:

Unhandled exception in WorkerThread <EventThread>:
Callers stack:
File "wx\_core.pyc", line 8010, in MainLoop
File "wx\_core.pyc", line 7306, in MainLoop
File "wx\_core.pyc", line 14660, in <lambda>
Traceback (most recent call last) (1544):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\ThreadWorker.py", line 326, in __DoOneEvent
self.HandleAction(action)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\ThreadWorker.py", line 289, in HandleAction
action()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\ThreadWorker.py", line 62, in __call__
self.returnValue = self.func(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\EventThread.py", line 142, in StartSession
actionThread.Func(actionThread.StartSession, 120)(filename)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\ThreadWorker.py", line 62, in __call__
self.returnValue = self.func(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\ActionThread.py", line 43, in StartSession
set(eg.WinUsb.ListDevices().iterkeys())
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\WinUsb.py", line 618, in ListDevices
raise WinError(err)
WindowsError: [Error 6] The handle is invalid.

[Pako]

It seems that in the second machine, you do not have the same USB receiver, as in the first machine.

Pako

[st1x]

Hi Pako,

I'm not sure what you mean. I've got one esxi host running a Win 2008 R2 box with eventghost and it runs perfectly then i installed a fresh Win 7 64bit on it and installed eventghost and get the above errors, can i run eventghost on 2 vm's on the same esxi host? I don't use anything related to USB in eventghost by the way.

[Pako]

I'm not sure what you mean. I've got one esxi host running a Win 2008 R2 box with eventghost and it runs perfectly then i installed a fresh Win 7 64bit on it and installed eventghost and get the above errors, can i run eventghost on 2 vm's on the same esxi host? I don't use anything related to USB in eventghost by the way.

Perhaps I misunderstood.
According to this, it seemed that you are using a USB driver:

File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\ActionThread.py", line 43, in StartSession
set(eg.WinUsb.ListDevices().iterkeys())
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\WinUsb.py", line 618, in ListDevices
raise WinError(err)
WindowsError: [Error 6] The handle is invalid.

You can then work with EventGhost?
You can save and reopen the empty configuration?

Pako

[st1x]

Hi Pako,

I was puzzled as well by the usb error, i don't use eventghost at all for usb. Eventghost is used for automating file transfers around my network.

The issue i have is that EG is currently setup on a win 2008 R2 VM hosted on esxi this works fine. Then i created a new win 7 vm on the same esxi host, but when i install EG and start it up i get the above error straight away, it doesn't not make a difference if it is a brand new configuration file or one i have loaded, the error appears immediately at startup. Can i install EG on 2 vm's on the same host? It is a brand new installation of Win 7 and EG.

[Pako]

Why you do not answer the questions that I ask you?
BTW, the empty configuration is as follows:

Why do you have in your configuration the X10 plugin?
Delete it! It needs a USB driver.

Pako

[st1x]

Sorry pako, i didn't understand your question.

I've deleted everything from my configuration file and restarted and still get the same error.

Do you know the answer to my VM question?

[Pako]

I've deleted everything from my configuration file and restarted and still get the same error.

It is a pity, but certainly it was worth a try.
However, I unfortunately do not know what to do next.

Do you know the answer to my VM question?

I have no experience with esxi ( I've never even heard of it ).
Probably it is a problem with 64-bit environment. With that I also have no experience.
Maybe someone else can help.

Pako

[st1x]

I've found the answer in case anyone has this in the future, you just have to make sure you install the USB controller on the VM.

Nice one!

[eatmeimadanish]

Also just for record, you can replace missinHardwareID function inside ActionThread.py with just

missingHardwareID ()

This will skip the winusb.py check and eliminate the error.