Only able to start Doomsday once

pschroeter

This afternoon I installed Doomsday 1.10.3 on a Windows 8 computer. I played the game just one time at the end of the setup procedure. The next time I tried to start the game with the desktop icon Doomsday Engine and I got this error:

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Errors occurred

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See the logfile 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Doomsday\snowberry\snowberry.exe.log' for details

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OK

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I searched for this file in specified location and I can tell you it wasn't there. I eventually found it elsewhere and it read:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "snowberry.py", line 25, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "ui.pyo", line 38, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "widgets.pyo", line 37, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "sb\profdb.pyo", line 30, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "sb\profile.pyo", line 27, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "sb\aodb.pyo", line 745, in <module>
File "sb\aodb.pyo", line 702, in loadAll
File "sb\aodb.pyo", line 467, in load
File "sb\addon.pyo", line 673, in readMetaData
File "sb\addon.pyo", line 822, in readLumpDirectory
struct.error: unpack requires a string argument of length 8

Can you help? I have only played the game for about thirty minutes so I don't know it at all.

I have been playing Doom since the late nineties. I recently got a new Windows 8 computer and the original Doom program no longer works. This will be the fourth computer I have played Doom on and I am eager to play the dozens of Wads I have collected over the year.

skyjake

Based on that error I would say there is a WAD somewhere in your addon collection that is either corrupt or has a format that the Frontend doesn't understand. Unfortunately, without making changes to the Frontend's code it is hard to determine which WAD file is causing the problem. Have you for instance checked whether one of them has a suspiciously small file size?