skacky 65 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 Hey, I'm trying to update to 2.05 but the updater is stuck in a loop. It will check my local 2.04 files and then download tdm_update_win.zip (1.5mb). However, when I click Restart, it starts the process all over again. I've tried renaming the folder to no effect. The game is not installed in Program Files or any secure folder. The updater worked fine when I updated to 2.04 when it was released (on the same machine). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nbohr1more 2239 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 Set "do not allow tdm_updater to update itself" in the advanced options menu. Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to post Share on other sites
Bikerdude 3742 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 Have you tried manually downloading tdm_update.exe and running that.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bikerdude 3742 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 Set "do not allow tdm_updater to update itself" in the advanced options menu.Dont we want ti to update itself though..? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skacky 65 Posted February 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 Set "do not allow tdm_updater to update itself" in the advanced options menu. Thanks, that did the trick. Should've tried that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Destined 633 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 I have the updater update active and I also had to restart three or four times (I did not pay too much attention, but I think the messages I got were different each time, so I thought that this is just part of the process, like restarting TDM after installing a new mission). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nbohr1more 2239 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 Dont we want ti to update itself though..? Once. The infinite loop makes it keep updating itself over and over and it never moves on to downloading the actual mod. Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to post Share on other sites
Sotha 1909 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 It loops for me too! I think it did when I updated to 2.04 as well. This should be probably fixed ASAP, because potential new players, who are not that tech-savvy, might simply give up when the updater does not work out of the box. Looks bad if the default install doesn't work, but one needs to figure out to put a mark in a tab in some advanced menu. 1 Quote Clipper-The mapper's best friend. Link to post Share on other sites
greebo 86 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) There seems to be a logic problem extracting the updater: ...Checking filesize of downloaded file, expecting 1570489Checking download for 'is-a-zipfile'.Checking CRC of downloaded file, expecting acca1045CRC calculated for zip file D:\Games\doom3test\darkmod\__tdm_update_win.zip = acca1045Downloaded file passed the integrity checks.Moved D:\Games\doom3test\darkmod\__tdm_update_win.zip to D:\Games\doom3test\darkmod\tdm_update_win.zipExtracting files from D:\Games\doom3test\darkmod\tdm_update_win.zipIgnoring file: tdm_update.exeFound 0 files to extract.Preparing TDM update batch file in D:\Games\doom3test\darkmod\tdm_update_updater.cmd... It's never extracting the tdm_update.exe. edit: Sorry, scratch that. It's extracted but it fails to activate the new version. Edited February 15, 2017 by greebo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nbohr1more 2239 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 I wonder if Windows is removing the executable on extract for security purposes?Are we using our our zip library for this part of the process or deferring to Windows zip support? Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to post Share on other sites
greebo 86 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 No, sorry, the updater binary is there, but it's not copied over it seems. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
greebo 86 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 It's a timing issue, the two second pause appears to be too short for the tdm_update process to terminate, so the .exe file is still in use. Raising the limit to 5 seconds breaks the loop. New players won't experience this, since they are downloading the current tdm_update directly, but existing players might run into this. I don't recall running into this problem before, but then again I haven't run tdm_update since 2013. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marcuskiwi 2 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) Where do I find the advanced options menu please as I am stuck in this endless loop!!!! No worries I have found it. Please ignore Edited February 15, 2017 by marcuskiwi Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brethren 196 Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 I don't recall running into this problem before, but then again I haven't run tdm_update since 2013. This has been going on for a while, I had this issue when I updated to 2.04 in mid 2016. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chakkman 407 Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 (edited) Same issue here. Before, every update worked fine, but now, the updater is in a self-update loop. So, downloading the update manually will fix this? What is the latest version of the Updater anyway? Mine says version 0.65. Edited February 16, 2017 by chakkman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NightStalker 67 Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 What is the latest version of the Updater anyway?0.66 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shadrach 13 Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 (edited) For those having problems here's a workaround. The updater downloads the new version as "_tdm_update.exe" (on Windows), and then apparently fails to copy this over the old file, then deletes the temporary file. So what I did was copy the new file out of the folder while installer was running, let the update fail, and then overwrite the "tmd_update.exe" with the (renamed) "_tmd_update.exe". Not pretty but works... Edited February 16, 2017 by Shadrach Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chakkman 407 Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 (edited) 0.66 Doesn't seem to be available on TDM's website. Only find version 0.65. Edited February 16, 2017 by chakkman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chakkman 407 Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 (edited) Downloaded the Updater from here now, from the mirror "darkmod.taaaki.za.net": http://www.thedarkmod.com/download-the-mod/ The download up in the description is still version 0.65. The one on the mirror i stated is already version 0.66. Updater works now as expected. Edited February 17, 2017 by chakkman 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bikerdude 3742 Posted February 19, 2017 Report Share Posted February 19, 2017 I fixed that link yesterday, so this method can now be used by any new users having the loop problem. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Petike the Taffer 552 Posted March 2, 2017 Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 A possible related problem: I'm at the end of the whole updating process. "Performing cleanup setups.". etc. More in the following picture: "Your TDM installation is up to date." But the green "working on it" bar still isn't at the end. And I already have a "Show Log" and "Close" button available, not to mention the size (388.6 MB) fitting the update size. Is something wrong ? Should I run the updater again ? Besides this one issue, everything ran absolutely fine. Quote Female player character vocals (current mini-project, help/advice appreciated) Slovak localisation for TDM (my project) What I'm up to (sporadic updates) Stuff I've worked on at the wiki Partners in Crime (my FM series, in development) Link to post Share on other sites
nbohr1more 2239 Posted March 2, 2017 Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 Probably just the size of the files that need to be checked for bad date encoding. Run it once more and if it does the same thing, I will suggest that you are done. Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to post Share on other sites
Petike the Taffer 552 Posted March 2, 2017 Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 Probably just the size of the files that need to be checked for bad date encoding. Run it once more and if it does the same thing, I will suggest that you are done. Sound advice. I'll run it once more to check it. Be right back. Quote Female player character vocals (current mini-project, help/advice appreciated) Slovak localisation for TDM (my project) What I'm up to (sporadic updates) Stuff I've worked on at the wiki Partners in Crime (my FM series, in development) Link to post Share on other sites
Petike the Taffer 552 Posted March 2, 2017 Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 Just checked it. Everything went by fast, finished itself normally, things seem to be fully updated and fine. Off to test 2.05... 2 Quote Female player character vocals (current mini-project, help/advice appreciated) Slovak localisation for TDM (my project) What I'm up to (sporadic updates) Stuff I've worked on at the wiki Partners in Crime (my FM series, in development) Link to post Share on other sites
STiFU 767 Posted March 2, 2017 Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 Just FYI, on the german ttlg, somebody said he fixed the issue of the updater loop by disabling CCleaner. Not sure if that's any help. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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