Issue with books.xml

[thefoolofemmaus]

This crash happens at different times, but consistently when trying to open a character sheet that has not been completed.

backtrace.txt

chummerlog.txt

[chummer5a]

Hrm. It's having trouble parsing your registry file, I think. Try opening up regedit, and expanding HKEY_CURRENTUSER\Software and deleting the Chummer5 folder.

[joha4270]

Now seeing the guy is running chummer under WINE, it might be something else. If it is possible to extract a copy of that node i would like copy.

[thefoolofemmaus]

If you can tell me how to extract a node, or point me towards instructions,
I would be happy to do so.
On Dec 25, 2015 10:34 AM, "Johannes Elgaard" notifications@github.com
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Now seeing the guy is running chummer under WINE, it might be something
else.

If it is possible to extract a copy of that node i would like copy.

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[joha4270]

Open regedit (i have not used WINE in years, so it might be named wine-regedit or something) You should see 5 folders named HKEY_$SOMETHING Open the one named HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE A folder in there should be named SOFTWARE. Inside that one there should be a folder named Chummer5 Right click said folder. Press "Export". Save file somewhere you can find it. Delete (or rename) the folder. Check if it works. Report back. Include the contents of the file you saved before. If you are worried about privacy you can put a @gmail behind my username and send the file there.

[thefoolofemmaus]

The key was under LOCAL_USER, nothing for chummer under LOCAL_MACHINE. Deleting that key had no effect. I have included both the export and the JIT debug output.
chum.txt
JIT.txt

[joha4270]

Okay, that is interesting. During loading of settings (some in registry, some in ./settings/settings.XML) it tries to read ./sheets/data/books.XML (both sheets and data live in the same folder...)

As a stopgap, try copying ./data/books.XML to ./sheets/data.xml

I have a few ideas to what is happening, but without some more detailed logging they all reside in the category of how the hell did would that happen.

[chummer5a]

May have found something related to this; received a character that wouldn't load as part of #1025 that gave me an error about not being able to find books.xml in my desktop directory, as I'd deleted the settings file. Investigation revealed that we're using environment.currentdirectory in a few places that aren't sanitised to only be accessed by the application, such as when we're loading a character file. Might be related?