Ksp cannot load (problem with MK2 lander can)

[TheKspEngineer]

Whenever i try to start ksp, the loading stops while loading Sqad/parts/@thumbs/mk2LanderCabin.v2_icon0 the hint screens still go on it just doesnt continue.

 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 03:24 PM by TheKspEngineer

[Krakatoa]

That read out is not that accurate to what's going on behind the scenes. You'll need to share your KSP log like it says in the pinned post.

[TheKspEngineer]

Thanks for the reply, will do it. 

[TheKspEngineer]

Is this sufficient?

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/39f2q1ybo7qj6akoyrnt3/Logs-Kopernicus.zip?rlkey=698hc8ge8dpoejy9o0zfby58z&st=a656v1cc&dl=0

[Krakatoa]

Yes indeed! I think that's most everything needed to help someone help you. I see you're using Linux, which unfortunately makes it a bit harder for me to know how everything is supposed to act. I want to say there's a problem with Parallax and Linux? But definitely don't take my word for it. Now that you have your logs here, hopefully someone with more knowledge about your specific setup can help. In the meantime, a screenshot of your gamedata folder can help to make sure it looks like the folders are in the right places.

[TheKspEngineer]

More detail:

I was making a lander in the SPH (with a MK2 lander can as root), when the game partly froze. I couldn't add parts (or detach) but I could add subassembly. I couldn't rotate my camera, I could switch editor. I could not do anything else. I closed the game with alt+f4 and then I could not restart.

Hope this helps

[Lisias]

22 minutes ago, TheKspEngineer said:

More detail:

I was making a lander in the SPH (with a MK2 lander can as root), when the game partly froze. I couldn't add parts (or detach) but I could add subassembly. I couldn't rotate my camera, I could switch editor. I could not do anything else. I closed the game with alt+f4 and then I could not restart.

Hope this helps

There's nothing fishy on your KSP.log (other than Parallax complaining about not being known to work on that KSP version - what AFAIK is harmless and should be an Warning).

But it ends trying to load a @thumbs:

[LOG 13:56:31.758] Load(Texture): Squad/Parts/@thumbs/mk2FuselageShortLiquid_icon

And this solves the problem - KSP has a bug that if a thumbs fails to load, it relentlessly halts and catches fire, and the solution could not be more simple: search & destroy every @thumbs directory you find in your KSP and let it redo them from scratch.

This happens a lot on SSD users, but HDD users also have them now and then - this is a problem that happens by harshly shutting down the process, not allowing it to flush the caches and closing the files, and so these files gets corrupted.

It also happens when you shutdown the whole machine on the same conditions (like a Blue Screen of Death), but on SSDs this is terrible because a whole flash macrocell on the SDD can get corrupted, and with the size of these macrocells, lots of files can get corrupted in the process. It's the reason we have to verify the game integrity all the time when running games on SSD, since Windows crashes a lot.

Now... This is only one of the problems - why your KSP crashed at fist place is the real cause of your troubles, and this I can only try to diagnose when you send a KSP.log (and probably a Player.log) from when the event happens. Problem: depending on how the crash happens, the problem I described about kicks in and KSP.log and Player.log may (but, hopefully, not all the time) gets corrupted the same...

Anyway, for while this is what I can do for you.

Do a Integrity Check if you downloaded the game from Steam - if not, perhaps should be a good idea to reinstall everything from scratch to be sure all files are pristine. But since this is a hell of a work, it may be a better idea waiting for the problem happening again.

Good luck!

Edited Sunday at 11:32 AM by Lisias
Tyops gallore!!

[TheKspEngineer]

Thanks for the advice, now I can renovate old interplanetary motherships again. 

 

Edited Sunday at 03:09 PM by TheKspEngineer
Problem is no more