AML hangs after updating mods

[CyarSkirata]

AML Version
1.4.1

Description
The program launches as usual, and begins to update mods. Upon completing that step, the program locks up entirely and the window where the mods are displayed turns black.

After launching the program more times than I can count, and deleting and reinstalling it three times, it's only functioned beyond that point twice: and I have no idea what could have changed.

One of these successful launches was the first of the three I've done with the current install, so hopefully the log should show _something different somewhere.

Attachments
AML.log

Sorry for the lack of "settings.json" file. Github says it doesn't support the file type and I don't know if or how it could be re-formatted to one of the supported types.

[RevZero]

After all mods have been processed, AML updates/refreshes the mod list view. This is where it sometimes hangs for some reason. Someone else just recently reported the same issue in our Discord channel, but it seems to be a rare.

Your log shows, that it finished normally the first time (as you pointed out).

2021-04-20 22:11:19,536 [ 1]  INFO | MainForm: 387 | ModUpdateTask completed
2021-04-20 22:12:38,705 [ 1]  INFO | MainForm:   0 | ModUpdateTask post processing completed

But it did not continue to the post processing (refreshing the UI) the second and third time.

2021-04-20 22:18:01,078 [ 1]  INFO | MainForm: 387 | ModUpdateTask completed
[hangs]

2021-04-20 22:18:01,078 [ 1]  INFO | MainForm: 387 | ModUpdateTask completed
[hangs]

This may be caused due to an internal bug in the ObjectListView component that is triggered by some edge case (probably timing related). This is hard to narrow down, without being able to reproduce it in my environment.

Does it maybe always work when you start AML for the first time? Either delete settings.json or extract a fresh copy of AML to a different folder and try it out.

If you are willing to join our Discord, we could try some things

[CyarSkirata]

Both of the times it's worked have been on fresh installs, but it's also failed to work twice on fresh installs.

I have realised just now that there is one thing that I think is common to the fresh installs that worked.

On the first install I obviously hadn't yet saved any modlists when I booted it up.
On the second and third installs, I'd moved my WIP saved modlist into their files before I booted them.
On this fourth install, I didn't do that until after it worked the first time.

I'll test a fresh install and deleting settings.json, and if I can find the address somewhere (or if ya link it) I'll definitely join the Discord. I use the same name there as I do here so I'll be easy to spot.

[CyarSkirata]

I've tried a few tests, and I can provide a little more data. All of these tests were done with the saved modlist either removed from the file, or not inserted into the new files.

This is the log from the existing install, after I deleted settings.json and tried it again. Didn't work.
AML deleted settings.log

This log is from a single launch attempt using a fresh extract of the same zip. Also non-functional.
AML fresh extract.log

And here's the log from the fresh download I'm trying now, but it's gotten itself stuck in a different way. It's stopped at mod 702, but it's technically still responding.
The screenshot shows some mods displayed with their full information while others aren't: I'm able to scroll down the window, and if I mouse over a mod, it updates to show that information. There are occasional exceptions, which I assume are the ones the program didn't get to before it got stuck.
I'll leave this one and go do something else for awhile, and I'll update you as to its status when I come back.
AML fresh download.log

[CyarSkirata]

And after three hours, it's still stuck. Here's a fresh copu of the log incase it's added anything.
AML fresh download after delay.log

[RevZero]

Thanks for the testing. The hanging during the update processing is probably not directly related to the freeze when the mod list is updated.

Would be interesting to see what would happen, if you had like "only" 100 mods or so. You obviously do not want to unsubscribe from 600 mods, but I could instruct you to work around that to test it out. Discord is https://discord.gg/QHSVGRn.

[CyarSkirata]

I'm up for trying it, sure. I've joined the discord: Cyar Skirata#5664

[JoeOlmond]

I am having a similar issue. When I open the launcher it is good for roughly a minute but then it goes into an unresponsive state. The mod window goes black. After a few minutes the launcher returns to working order with no other problems. I do have over 2000 mods installed.

[RevZero]

@JoeOlmond With that many mods, the mod list need a while to update. It probably could be improved by updating the mod-list asynchronously, but I never looked into that because its normally not that much of an issue.
The bottom line is, that the issue of the original poster where it got permanently stuck is probably caused by something else.
Anyway, thanks for reporting.