When tile cache "root" doesn't exists there is no error message but no bckground map either

[sebastic]

As reported by Peter Gervai in Debian Bug #973910:

The cache was created in a directory which got cleaned [full of temporary stuff].
gpsprune cache directory was removed, too.
gpsprune don't warn the user at the start but due to missing dir it cannot retrieve
background map tiles and cannot display them, which is very confusing.
I had to strace it to see that file creates fail with "no such file or directory".

[kaoneko]

So that's what's going on. Thank you! I guess cleaning the system cache out with BleachBit causes this issue. Drove me crazy!

Quick fix for anyone else reading this: (temporarily) disable Settings > Save maps to disk - and there's your map background!

[activityworkshop]

temporarily disabling saving the maps to disk isn't the best solution, as then nothing will be saved. It's better to enable saving maps to disk and to choose where to save them to - then the folder will be properly created if necessary.

[kaoneko]

Yeah I worded it a bit weird, but I meant to say to toggle the setting 😅
Thanks for the great application by the way!

[activityworkshop]

behaviour now improved with 20.1, so closing