launching DR gets unhanded exception

[joebarnin]

I just ran into the problem discussed in this older thread: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18562-dr-unhandled-exception/

 

I checked darkradiant.log and it said:

 

2019-03-13 14:19:54 (13600) XMLRegistry: Importing XML file: C:/Users/user/AppData/Roaming/DarkRadiant/filters.xml

2019-03-13 14:19:54 (13600) Unhandled Exception: Unable to load file: C:/Users/user/AppData/Roaming/DarkRadiant/filters.xml

I looked at filter.xml and it was an empty document (well, a bunch of spaces). I deleted it and then DR started up fine.

So all is well. Attached is the bad 'filters.xml' file, if anyone is interested. Seems like a pretty minor bug.

filters.xml

[kingsal]

This has happened to me a couple times as well. It can be sort of annoying. Ill fill out a bug report if there isnt one already.

[Epifire]

Yeah last I recall, the general thing I was told was to delete the DR temp folder in AppData and restart. Not sure what causes it myself but I think it's been a persistent (if primarily annoying) bug that's been around for a while.

[joebarnin]

One of these days when I’m bored I’ll take a look at the code and see if I can find the problem.

[Jedi_Wannabe]

I just started having this problem this morning. I tried to follow the steps above but I must be doing something wrong. Couldn't find Appdata/Roaming under users, nothing close. I found some xml files just under the normal darkmod/DR folder. I made a copy of them in a separate folder on my desktop if greebo would like a look at them. But deleting them out of the DR folder didn't fix anything next time I restarted.

Doing some digging on my machine the only files anywhere that resemble appdata/roaming are under Windows/WinSxS or something crazy, in the screen you can see they don't seem to relate at all. I feel like not even close here.

[JackFarmer]

It must be located where Joe says.

Something like that:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\DarkRadiant

Most probably the folder "AppData" is hidden on your machine. Check your credentials and settings.

Edited August 23, 2019 by JackFarmer

[Jedi_Wannabe]

I figured it out, it’s embarrassing so I’ll just blame Windows 10. Should I hold on to those corrupt xml files for interested parties?

[OrbWeaver]

I can reproduce the crash on Linux using the corrupted filters.xml in the original post, so I can investigate the problem on Linux (which will hopefully fix it on Windows too, although it's not so easy for me to test that side of things).

[OrbWeaver]

Fixed in source commit 7ea2eab8d3dce20873dd841306c7740a5ddbbb54.