Re: Error while using NMAP GUI

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:37:37PM -0400, Aditya KN wrote:
>      I just installed NMAP. While I was running it from the GUI, it failed
> and this is the error that I observed. NMAP runs fine when I am using the
> command prompt. Please help in fixing this issue
>
> Version: 6.01
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "zenmapGUI\ScanInterface.pyo", line 396, in start_scan_cb
>   File "zenmapGUI\ScanInterface.pyo", line 476, in execute_command
>   File "zenmapCore\NmapCommand.pyo", line 203, in __init__
>   File "tempfile.pyo", line 352, in mktemp
>   File "tempfile.pyo", line 261, in gettempdir
>   File "tempfile.pyo", line 190, in _get_default_tempdir
>   File "ntpath.pyo", line 471, in abspath
> TypeError: must be (buffer overflow), not str

It looks like you are hitting this Python bug:

http://bugs.python.org/issue4071

I suggest you check your TEMP environment variable, because there is
probably an error somewhere in your configuration making the TEMP path
be very long (over 255 characters).

David Fifield
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