Could not acquire management access for administration. Runtime Error: Unable to excute command chcp

I solved the same problem on enable the parameter "Beta : Use UTF-8 for worldwide language support" in Control Panel > Region > Administrative > Change system locale... It's disturbing because it's have nothing about the PATH environment variable. But it's work. Notice that I working on french environment and MySQL Workbench 8.0.24 version.

To resolve this problem on 64 bit system we have to follow two steps.

1. add environment variable path to C:\Windows\System32

2. we need chcp.com cmd file in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 copy it from C:\Windows\System32 path and paste in C:\Windows\SysWOW64

   now close mysql workbench and reopen it.

Hope you got the answer.

I've reproduced the same issue by clicking server status:

Could not acquire management access for administration

RuntimeError: Unable to execute command chcp. Please make sure that the C:\Windows\System32 directory is in your PATH environment variable 

and after click cancel was:

Error during ""

error calling Python module function WbAdmin.openAdminSection

using MySQL Server 8.0.23 & MySQL Workbench 8.0.23 for 64-bit OS Windows 10.

Notice: all environment variables were configured correct in my case.

Solved it only by reinstalling and using another version like MySQL Workbench 8.0.20, but I'd really recommend also downgrade version of server to MySQL Server 8.0.20 to avoid other bugs, e.g.: creating/deleting schemes and so on.

The same version should match all products to work correctly.

Found solution for system non english language users! After failing in all attempts seen issue here: Mysql Bug Forum, where told that the problem is in unicode python codec error. So mine solution as for cyrillic language user was to set Windows administrative language for the cases when utf-8 is unavailable, see screenshot below. "System language old value was Russian, after changing to English (USA) everything started to work. Also watched Workbench logs - there was a python exception for the ascii codec. Thats all, hope this will help.

Add the 'C:\Windows\System32' to the PATH environment variable.

Make sure you add it to PATH and not to Path.

The solution of this problem for me was this: Start the workbench community installer after installing the program you will go to this window enter image description here then you start the option of MySQL Server the option of "Reconfigure" and you accept all the options and create a new password (if you didn't make it before), execute the final screen and you are ready to use workbench :D

Had the same error for Windows 10. For me solution was to reinstall MySQL Server 8.0.24 and to enable option in installer "Configure MySQL Server as a Windows Service". Didn't have this option marked in the first installation, so I assume the problem was in this(there were no service for it, so after system restart MySQL Workbench 8.0 CE gave an error).

As mentioned before there are 2 possible fixes:

1. Change system locale to English(US)
2. Use Workbench ver. 8.0.22 or lower (error appears on vers. 8.0.23+)

Just add the C:\Windows\System32 to the Path, and the problem will be solved!

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