Re: IOError: [Errno 2] No usable temporary directory found

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

On 04/02/2014 10:51 AM, Jacek Wielemborek wrote:
> 02/04/2014 10:39:20 Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>:
> > On 04/02/2014 07:56 AM, kouei35 () gmail com wrote:
> > > Version: 6.40
> > >
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >     File "zenmapGUI\ScanInterface.pyo", line 427, in start_scan_cb
> > >     File "zenmapGUI\ScanInterface.pyo", line 507, in execute_command
> > >     File "zenmapCore\NmapCommand.pyo", line 234, in __init__
> > >     File "tempfile.pyo", line 352, in mktemp
> > >     File "tempfile.pyo", line 261, in gettempdir
> > >     File "tempfile.pyo", line 208, in _get_default_tempdir
> > >
> > > IOError: [Errno 2] No usable temporary directory found in
> > > ['C:\\Users\\\x8dK\x89i\\AppData\\Local\\Temp',
> > > 'C:\\Users\\\x8dK\x89i\\AppData\\Local\\Temp', 'c:\\temp', 'c:\\tmp',
> > > '\\temp', '\\tmp', 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Nmap']
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> > Thank you for this crash report. Unfortunately, there is nothing that
> > the developers can do to prevent this error, since you do not have a
> > usable temporary directory in any of those locations.
> >
> > As a workaround, you can specify a location for output by adding "-oX
> > \path\to\some\output.xml" to your nmap command line in the Zenmap interface.
> >
> > Dan
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> Perhaps we could try using some "Documents" directory?
Jacek,

Zenmap doesn't set this search path, it's done by the Python tempfile 
module. I think the default is fairly sane, since it checks environment 
variables before trying static paths. See: 
https://docs.python.org/2/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.tempdir

Dan
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