Can not go to sciene building (Invalid characters in vessel name)

[dyson]

Hello,

I have a Career-game that is running for some time. When I tried to exchange some fresh science the whole KSC-scene gets unresponsive and I had to kill the game (that has already worked a couple of times). When I start the game again I can go to the save, even enter some buildings (I tried the VAB and the tracking station) but as soon as I want to enter the science building the game hangs. Now I even can go back to the main menu and exit the game. Going back to main menu and starting the save again directly does not work, I have to exit the whole game.

Any ideas what happened and how to solve it (ah - its Xubuntu 64bit btw).

Thanks in advance,

Dyson

[sal_vager]

Hi dyson, can you upload your logs and save file please, dropbox is good for this

[dyson]

Hello,

sorry for the delay - I had no more time yesterday.

The link to the save directory

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tubvxaqnxelbr4k/AABM0Ug0MRU6u62rMd3u95hua?dl=0

The link to the KSP.log (is there any more?)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqqm8ld2b730exp/KSP.log?dl=0

I deleted the old log and made a new one - I only did the folllowing things:

- Start game

- Load savegame

- Open VAB

- Go back to KSC

- Click on Science building

Then the game hung again (and the only thing I could do was to go to the main menu back).

My game Version is 1.02 - Linux 64 bit.

Thanks again.

[sal_vager]

Okay I have figured it out, the error is with the vessel markers:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at AnchoredDialog.setOpacity (Single value) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at KSCVesselMarker.onInputLocksModified (FromToAction`2 inputLocks) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at EventData`1[GameEvents+FromToAction`2[ControlTypes,ControlTypes]].Fire (FromToAction`2 data) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at InputLockManager.SetControlLock (ControlTypes locks, System.String lockID) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at RnDBuilding.OnClicked () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at SpaceCenterBuilding.EnterBuilding () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at SpaceCenterBuilding.OnLeftClick () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at SpaceCenterBuilding+.MoveNext () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

You have three flags at the KSC, "Kerbin grasslands" and "Kerbin Tundra" are fine but ">>> KSC <<<" cannot be rendered because of the ">" and "<" characters in the name.

Load your save and go to the tracking station, click your ">>> KSC <<<" flag and click on its name in the knowledge base, it's the "i" button on the right of the tracking center screen, remove ">>> " and " <<<" and your save will be fixed.

Edited May 25, 2015 by sal_vager

[dyson]

That has solved the problem! Thank you very much sal_vager!

And only because I finally managed to mark my KSC with a flag to find it easily...

Is this worth a bug report or already a known issue? Because it can really cripple a save-file and nothing indicates that using ">" or "<" can lead to such problems. In retrospect it is kind of clear when the file is somhow XML-formatted, nevertheless should the GUI prevent such things.

-- edit: How can I mark this thread as solved??

-- edit2: Some kind moderator has already done the work! Thank you too!

Edited May 25, 2015 by dyson

[sal_vager]

I'm not sure why it's not accepting "<" or ">", though there has been issues in the past with some characters, as usually a craft name is also used for the craft file so the name has to be acceptable by the file system.

Really the engine should be catching this but oh well :/

Edited May 25, 2015 by sal_vager

[dyson]

As soon as I have time I will properly report it with reference to this thread here.

Thanks again, Val would have been very angry with me (she is waiting on the Mun at the moment because she somehow ran short on fuel )