Dragon Fogel
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Every so often I have trouble updating Entry Point. Today I finally tracked down the drod.err file in hopes that it might shed light on why and here's what it said:

Import Parse Error: no element found at line 1:0
Assertion error in line 1303 of DbXML.cpp: "ImportXML(info.exportedDemos) == MID_ImportSuccessful"
Import Parse Error: no element found at line 1:0
Assertion error in line 1308 of DbXML.cpp: "ImportXML(info.exportedSavedGames) == MID_ImportSuccessful"

I have no idea what this means but maybe someone who's actually worked on the code does.

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I think this is fixed in the latest RC, looking at the errors. The game is trying to import an empty string, and the xml parser really doesn't like that. I added some checks to prevent that from happening. (Should be in any build where the final part part of the version number is >507)

This stops updates because the databases get rolled back if something fails during an import. Unsure why this happens overall as the import code is quite self-referential.

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Dragon Fogel
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Tried updating in .533 (latest version in the update thread) and it crashes a few seconds into the attempt with nothing written to the error file.

The previously-reported error was happening on Steam; in the build I tested, I have no save progress for Entry Point, in case that turns out to be relevant somehow.

Dragon Fogel
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Going back to the Steam build, I deleted all demos in the hold and the update worked. Most likely there was a specific demo causing the problem. It may also have been an issue of total number of demos.

If there's an underlying issue that needs to be fixed and not just worked around, that may be important to finding it?

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I've had problems updating holds too. It happened with the challenge contest compilation (can't remember what version I was on then) and recently with One-Tide Shoreline. I was using the non-Steam version of TSS (I only use Steam for official holds).

In both cases it warned me it would delete incompatible demos, and when I confirmed it reverted to the old version. And so I deleted the hold and imported the new version.

If I see it again, I'll try exporting demos, deleting them, then importing them one at a time.

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Since there have been a number of fixes related to hold importing, please include the specific version number you are have trouble with.

You should also check to see if drod.err contains any related lines, and post some of them if it does. Dragon Fogel's first post in the thread shows the kind of messages that you should be looking for.

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Part of my point was that hold updating has never worked for me.

Non-Steam version 5.1.1.533

And DROD.err says... (I can never remember which one goes with which install... okay, it's the ProgramData one)

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Not liking the look of those asserts. Are these the first holds you are importing in a session? (that is, you open DROD, import a hold and it doesn't work)

Either way there is definitely something dubious going on and I don't like it.

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PR
(thanks, hyperme!)

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Dragon Fogel
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Still having trouble. Unfortunately, this time nothing is getting written to drod.err so there's much less to go on.

On attempting to update a hold (specifically Entry Point), I get to the step "Importing data" and then I get told "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way." I tried deleting my demos and it hasn't helped. I had this happen on both TSS and Gunthro Steam. In addition, I get a similar crash when trying to export my player file to retain saves and see if it works any better after deleting the hold.

I have also tried importing it on a non-Steam build where I don't have the hold installed already, and that keeps crashing with no message and not writing anything to drod.err.