Closed 4/21 Unstable [Nightly] Downloads a corrupt Packed.pak File (8 bytes in size)

2016-04-28 Edit: Thanks, all, for your help and responses! With the latest nightly build (4/28), ai.config issue is resolved, and a full download of the nightly should work without issue.

As such, should you have another issue, please post in a new thread, lest your pleas be lost in this one.

2016-04-27 Edit: This particular issue (corrupt packed.pak file) is resolved as of 4/26. You might run into a new issue with a crash upon launch with this new build. See v6000's quick fix on Page 5 of this thread, addressing the ai.config crash.

Original issue from 4/21

Hello, all.

Yesterday, we started a new server for the 4/20 build, which worked fine. I was up late afterwards, and noticed Steam had an update at about 430a CT on 4/21, so I took down the server and updated. After updating, the server would not start, nor would the game. Upon inspection, I found the assets/packed.pak file was showing to be only 8 bytes in size.

- I deleted the file, verified cache, and it downloaded a new 8 byte file.
- I tried "opting out," and then updated, and it downloaded the old PAK file with assets from Dec. 2015, and ran fine.
- I deleted all local content, reinstalled, opted-in for nightly, and then updated. Same 8 byte PAK file.
- Deleting the local content and re-installing showed a download of about 250MB, which is clearly not the full game.

It seems the 4/21 upload didn't put the correct files on Steam? Anyone else running into this?

Thanks,
-Falken

starbound.log
Start logging at: 2016-04-21 12:58:16.197
[12:58:16.197] Info: Star::Root using bootstrap file 'F:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Starbound - Unstable\win64\sbboot.config'
[12:58:16.197] Info: Star::Root using storage directory 'F:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Starbound - Unstable\storage\'
[12:58:16.197] Info: Preparing Star::Root...
[12:58:16.198] Info: Loading Configuration with config file: 'starbound.config'
[12:58:16.198] Info: Loading Star::Configuration from 'Just (.\..\storage\starbound.config)'
[12:58:16.199] Info: Writing Star::Configuration to '.\..\storage\starbound.config'
[12:58:16.202] Info: Initializing Star::Root with 2 assets sources
[12:58:16.202] Info: Done preparing Star::Root.
[12:58:16.202] Info: Loading Assets
[12:58:16.203] Info: Loading assets from: '../assets/packed.pak'
[12:58:16.206] Error: Application threw exception during startup: (IOException) read error 38
[0] 7ff61e920dd3
[1] 7ff61e91f078
[2] 7ff61e8194f5
[3] 7ff61e914306
[4] 7ff61e9166e1
[5] 7ff61e832c59
[6] 7ff61e825d6c
[7] 7ff61e9a4710
[8] 7ff61e988320
[9] 7ff61e98aed7
[10] 7ff61eee5333
[11] 7ff61eee128e
[12] 7ff61eef62d4
[13] 7ff61e7c5178
[14] 7ff61f4a3c1d
[15] 7ff61f4a4200
[16] 7ff61e7c9ff6
[17] 7ff61f79c69e
[18] 7ffcc0a78102 BaseThreadInitThunk
[19] 7ffcc365c5b4 RtlUserThreadStart
[12:58:16.265] Info: Destroying SDL Window
[12:58:16.283] Info: Shutting down Star::Root
[12:58:16.283] Info: Application stopped gracefully


Folder Contents of Assets
PS F:\games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Starbound - Unstable> cd .\assets\
PS F:\games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Starbound - Unstable\assets> dir

Directory: F:\games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Starbound - Unstable\assets


Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d----- 4/21/2016 1:11 PM user
-a---- 4/21/2016 1:11 PM 8 packed.pak


PS F:\games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Starbound - Unstable\assets>

Edit: Imgur Album of Full-Reinstall of Nightly, to further document issue.

 

Statement.I can also confirm what Professor Falken said.

Start logging at: 2016-04-21 197:07.975
[197:07.977] Info: Star::Root using bootstrap file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound - Unstable\win64\sbboot.config'
[197:07.977] Info: Star::Root using storage directory 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound - Unstable\storage\'
[197:07.977] Info: Preparing Star::Root...
[197:07.977] Info: Loading Configuration with config file: 'starbound.config'
[197:07.977] Info: Loading Star::Configuration from 'Just (.\..\storage\starbound.config)'
[197:07.978] Info: Writing Star::Configuration to '.\..\storage\starbound.config'
[197:08.010] Info: Initializing Star::Root with 2 assets sources
[197:08.010] Info: Done preparing Star::Root.
[197:08.010] Info: Loading Assets
[197:08.010] Info: Loading assets from: '../assets/packed.pak'
[197:08.019] Error: Application threw exception during startup: (IOException) read error 38
[0] 7ff73b1f0dd3
[1] 7ff73b1ef078
[2] 7ff73b0e94f5
[3] 7ff73b1e4306
[4] 7ff73b1e66e1
[5] 7ff73b102c59
[6] 7ff73b0f5d6c
[7] 7ff73b274710
[8] 7ff73b258320
[9] 7ff73b25aed7
[10] 7ff73b7b5333
[11] 7ff73b7b128e
[12] 7ff73b7c62d4
[13] 7ff73b095178
[14] 7ff73bd73c1d
[15] 7ff73bd74200
[16] 7ff73b099ff6
[17] 7ff73c06c69e
[18] 7ff9482913d2 BaseThreadInitThunk
[19] 7ff948eb54e4 RtlUserThreadStart
[197:08.088] Info: Destroying SDL Window
[197:08.096] Info: Shutting down Star::Root
[197:08.097] Info: Application stopped gracefully

Confused. packed.pak seems to be 1 kilobyte...

I've taken a screenshot......
that can be found here -> http://i.imgur.com/TYS9rDs.png




We both seem to be getting error 38

 

Hm, so much for trying to unpack assets today.

 

Dirty, Filthy Workaround!
- IF you are lucky and have a friend who has the Unstable [Nightly] from 4/20 installed...
and
- IF you are lucky enough that they have not yet updated it with 4/21 via Steam...

Then, you can copy a few folders from them to get back to running. I'd advise backing up your server prior to starting with this, just in case.

Copy these subfolders within "Starbound - unstable" from the good copy to your broken one:
- assets
- tiled
- win32
- win64
(For Windows versions... I would imagine you could use the OSX or linux folders if you are on those systems.)

This is NOT any sort of official fix, and it's a "dirty" workaround, because there are likely to be discrepancies. Either way, my server is back online, and my client isn't crashing to desktop. Nothing has exploded on the world below. (Yet. I'm hoping a new push tonight will yield a matching, plump, juice packed.pak file. This workaround here was just so we could get our Starbound on today.

-Falken

 

Too bad the 2nd push (today, 2016-04-22) still has the same problem.

 

Still happening with the newest 4/23 update.

 

This is just...lovely. Sigh.

 

I've been having a hard time launching SB again either through the launcher or directly. I even cleared out my universe and player files and launched; no luck. Same when I deleted all the 'Local Content' through Steam and reinstalled nightly. The game itself just flashes the window of the game and then disappears as if it crashed but nothing else shows up.

Anyone else have a possible way to fix it?

 

@hijinks nope. There is a dirty way around, but you need connections with people who have the 4/20 nightly version. All we can really do is wait for the devs to notice this and fix it.

 

is this the screen everyone is getting

 

sorry if that normal new to nightly

 

It's normal.

 

wouldn't it be cool if the devs actually checked these forums?

 

Honestly, something like this shouldn't be going unnoticed for going on three days now. Maybe we will get a fix tonight? Aside from all that, I really wish we could get some smaller stable updates. I feel like a lot of things in "unstable" and "nightly" are well-done and working fine; other things clearly are not. My concern is that so much has been added lately, and pushing all of that at once to the stable build is going to result in a lot of problems.

I think starting to release some small updates every week or two, leading up to 1.0, would be much more manageable. That way, they could focus on a handful of issues/changes at a time. Going back to the topic and issue at hand, we can't test "unstable-nightly" when it won't launch. Back to Pokemon for now...ya bunch of Slowpokes...get it?

PS. I know it was a bad joke #sorrynotsorry

 

I can also confirm this, I just installed the most recent Nightly (4/24/16) and the packed.pak is 8 bytes

 

Another update with the same bug...

 

It would seem that the packed.pak file only contains the folders and none of the files that occupy them. Might just be a simple error at packing of the assets. Will wait for next update.

 

Just downloaded the new "Unstable - Nightly" update via Steam, and I can confirm the issue still persists.

***If you need the April 20th 2016 files for the nightly launch issue workaround, message me and I will add you on Steam. I finally found them!!***

 

How is this going unnoticed?

 

Has anyone PMed the team yet?