Game crash on starting new game after deleting mod

[Muro81]

Game crash on starting new game after deleting mod

[Muro81]

Ive got android studio, could probably look up the files and folders created if you want me to.

[Muro81]

Yeah device explorer, but in like an hour or two.

[Muro81]

Deleting the map that was in the mod, solved it.

[SomeTroglodyte]

Deleting the map that was in the mod, solved it.

What? How do you delete a mod without also deleting its maps?

[Muro81]

Not sure, I pressed from mods menu delete mod. And I go to maps editor screen, load map, and delete the map that was leftover. Should the game handle this scenario or the modders?

[SomeTroglodyte]

From the trace, clear enough.

But you must have re-saved the map in map editor before mod deletion, which makes a copy in your maps folder, otherwise it would have been gone. Must be. Better check myself...

[SomeTroglodyte]

Or - wait - one mod comes with maps that require another mod - could be - I've already thought about preventing that sort of thing... We'll see.

[Muro81]

I never touched the map in map editor tho, only time i viewed it was in the star game screen.

[SomeTroglodyte]

... or Android bungled the delete. That OS's file security concepts are degrading more rapidly than butter on the surface of the sun...
You don't happen to have a root file manager or adb-based one?

Waaaiiittt.... What was up with that perverse copying of the entire mods folder structure on startup? That could be the culprit of the map still being around!

That fix PR is valid anyway, but someone should investigate how all internal/local/external folders really look after mod deletion... And I am lazy.

[Muro81]

Not sure about the file manager, I have one that came with phone.

[SomeTroglodyte]

Not sure about the file manager, I have one that came with phone.

Sorry, I was using too technical language. You can't normally see files private to an app except via how that app presents them. And I'd like to see what really became of the folder of a deleted mod. People with not-out-of-the-box tools could go and look, but normally you can't. And those tools are either a "rooted" OS (meaning you must have unlocked the device's loader partitions - either through a vendor feature or hacking) or a programmer's debugger.

On desktop, your steps do not reproduce any problem - which is fine as the patch closes a mistake that needed closing anyway.

[SomeTroglodyte]

android studio

"Device Explorer", then look for mod remnants (of the ancient thingy mod) under /data/data/com.unciv.app/files/mods and /sdcard/Android/data/com.unciv.app/files/mods ...

[Muro81]

I tried this but I cant access any files under the com.unciv.app, run as: package not debuggable, Is what it says.

[SomeTroglodyte]

Oh well, adb is a science in itself. Maybe it needs some more config, like activating developer mode and then some setting in the dev options... So gotta test that myself, only I got no API level 33 device or AVD in sight... Too resource-hungry and -wasteful...

[Muro81]

Its possible to view debuggable aps, but id need to build it in debug mode on my phone to view that. Should it be possible if I git clone the project?

[SomeTroglodyte]

Remotely possible - though if so, it's likely a security feature comparing signatures. My Studio can look into all the apps's /data/data/packagename/files, no matter whether built myself or not, but then I have LineageOS and LOS may change these rules. adb bypassing Linux owner/group permissions always sounded to me like a feature marshalled by the system, not using the root hack to make the su binaries available...

[Muro81]

Wel I have some apps that were built by myself on Windows machines. I can acces the debug ones but not the release ones that were signed? Or it could be the shrinking or minifying of resources as well I guess?

[AdityaMH]

Also editing base ruleset even just add "a" will lead you permanent crash.

[SomeTroglodyte]

No, just tested - mod deletion is clean, and the offer to copy mods from /sdcard/Android/data/com.unciv.app/files/mods is just that - an offer to be able to mod on Android, it only copies in one direction, no download leftover loaded from there. So that fix just merged should be enough... Tested, it does uncrash what was crashing.

[SomeTroglodyte]

... what the patch didn't fix is this: Start a new game with a base ruleset mod, then delete it, then try "Quickstart". No crash and the message is perfectly clear, but it could revert to vanilla instead - with message.... No priority.