2008 C++ redist x64 crashing python processes - 10.6.1
Hi there,
Has anyone seen a case where if you are running Python 2.7 on ArcGIS Server 10.6.1 when you try to instantiate any _arc_object objects from the gp object the Python process crashes? This happens after the VS C++ 2008 x64 redist is installed on a server.
I have a script that add a mosaic layer to a map document in preparation for printing.
Does this:
arcpy.mapping.AddLayer(df2, lyrLayer, "AUTO_ARRANGE")
which in turn does this in mapping.py
data_frame._arc_object.InsertLayer(None, my_copy)
this crashes afcore.dll (in my case)
it only seems to be c++ 2008 redist - 2005,2010,2013 are all fine (and 2017 obviously)
I can see that ArcGIS Server has these bundled with it in the bin directory:
so does having the c++ 2008 redist installed break this linkage?
With the redist installed I see this:
it seems to change one of the versions from in the windows winsxs directories
9.00.30729.1 to 9.00.21022.8 - though this may be unrelated.
Esri version
c:\windows\winSxS version (there are various versions)
This server gets c++ 2008 x64 installed for VMWare tools.
Has anyone got any info on how Server registers the baked in c++ 2008 dlls and how installing the redist breaks it. More to the point the best way to recover it - uninstalling and reinstalling 2017 seems to work sometimes but not always!
Thanks
Fraser
