Please Read Launcher crashing after update

[akhero47]

Had the launcher update today (somewhere around 900 kb) and after updating every time I would try to switch to the Server Browser tab it instantly stopped responding and had to be force closed.  Rebooted, same problem persisted.  It seems to be working alright now after about the 5th or 6th attempt, but I figured I'd still send the report in case others are also having this issue.

If any other info about my system is needed git at me!

DxDiag.txt

diagnostics.log

errors.log

Edited May 4, 2017 by akhero47

[Einstein]

I am by no means an expert on the launcher, and its pretty likely that danpaul is the only one that can say for sure what caused this, but I like to poke around and stab in the dark and see what I can learn So tell me, did you run as admin or otherwise grant it admin access in a UAC prompt? Because (this is a pure guess) it seems like these two lines refer to the actual ability of the application to start and do anything at all.

at System.Windows.Application.Run()
at W3DHub.Launcher.App.Main()

If the program failed on these (along with the few dozen other errors) then the PC tech in me screams "perms". There are some funky situations in windows where apps can attempt to run but any elevation prompts will be suppressed or denied by default, even if you right click and run as admin! It can silently deny it. Just a guess again, but I would think that could cause an error of this sort. Why that would happen but then not happen later, and the program be allowed to run normally is beyond me though, unless you changed some security settings.

Do you by chance have an "over-zealous" antivirus?

[danpaul88]

@Einstein actually those two lines just mean it's on thread 1, the main application thread.

I'm on my phone right now so can't load up the code to have a poke around, but it's not one I've seen during my own testing. It looks like a threading issues where a UI update is happening outside the UI thread, but where and when it's happening isn't clear.

I'll have a look when I'm next on my laptop, but it smells like one of those that will be hard to track down...

[akhero47]

17 hours ago, Einstein said:

I am by no means an expert on the launcher, and its pretty likely that danpaul is the only one that can say for sure what caused this, but I like to poke around and stab in the dark and see what I can learn So tell me, did you run as admin or otherwise grant it admin access in a UAC prompt? Because (this is a pure guess) it seems like these two lines refer to the actual ability of the application to start and do anything at all.

at System.Windows.Application.Run()
at W3DHub.Launcher.App.Main()

If the program failed on these (along with the few dozen other errors) then the PC tech in me screams "perms". There are some funky situations in windows where apps can attempt to run but any elevation prompts will be suppressed or denied by default, even if you right click and run as admin! It can silently deny it. Just a guess again, but I would think that could cause an error of this sort. Why that would happen but then not happen later, and the program be allowed to run normally is beyond me though, unless you changed some security settings.

Do you by chance have an "over-zealous" antivirus?

Yep, tried running as admin after the first two tries.  No effect.

It can be, but I don't think it was the problem as usually if it's causing an interruption in a program functioning properly it tells me something along the lines of "Hey!  We think you're really stupid for opening or executing this!  Don't do it!  Or..  do but don't say we didn't tell you so!"

 

Edit:  Like I said, it's working fine now with me having done no changes whatsoever to anything.  I just worry maybe someone else could have the same issue and not have it self-repair.

Edited May 5, 2017 by akhero47