** Changed in: nunitv2
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: nunitv2
Assignee: (unassigned) => Charlie Poole (charlie.poole)
** Changed in: nunitv2
Milestone: None => 2.6.0b1
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/681173
Title:
better error messages for UAC/permission problems
Status in NUnit V2 Test Framework:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Sometimes NUnit has permissions problems with directories, and can't
run tests.
Windows User Account Control (UAC) tries to sandbox and isolate which
EXEs can touch which locations inside AppData. I'm not 100% sure how
this mechanism works, but I believe if an AppData directory is created
with one EXE, and then a different EXE tries to access it, UAC will
prevent it.
This could be the source of the problem. It could be some other
directory permissioning problem. The bottom line is, when this occurs,
and NUnit can't load the assemblies or run tests, it's fixed by right-
clicking on NUnit and choosing "run as administrator". Once you run it
once as administrator, it fixes up the directory UAC permissions and
then it shouldn't have this problem. Another solution is to delete the
directories under appdata and then re-run.
It might be nice if NUnit had some support for understanding it didn't
have proper permissions to directories it needs, so it could throw a
more sensible error. ("UAC is preventing me from touching this
directory, either delete it or run NUnit as administrator"). However,
I admit I have no idea how NUnit would detect this situation.
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