Add-ons not loading the ones that I've selected

[cupcakes]

This is something that I think more than a few people have encountered: somehow, the add-ons, or GUI gets corrupted, and the add-ons that you select when creating a game are not actually selected. The only way to tell that it isn't working is to start the game, and then realize that (e.g., random recruit) isn't working. The only way that I've figured out how this can get fixed is to mass delete and then re-install add-ons, but sometimes it doesn't seem to work.

Is there a known way to fix it? A known reason for why this happens? It's a very annoying, game-breaking bug.

[dwarftough]

A very old bug. It's caused by some of the mods defining itself twice.

https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/issues/5886

https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/issues/6780

You can try to delete add-ons one by one to determine which one is breaking things

[Ravana]

Addon server rules do not allow addons that break something like that.

[cupcakes]

A very old bug. It's caused by some of the mods defining itself twice.

https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/issues/5886

https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/issues/6780

You can try to delete add-ons one by one to determine which one is breaking things

But I have dozens of add-ons, so that doesn't help much. Good to know though.

I'm pretty sure this has happened when I only had add-ons from the server.

[gnombat]

You can try to delete add-ons one by one to determine which one is breaking things

But I have dozens of add-ons, so that doesn't help much.

You might be able to find an error message in your log file which indicates which add-on is causing the issue.

According to https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/issues/6780 there should be a message in the log file that looks like this:

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error config: found modification with id=Dead_Bodies twice

[dwarftough]

You can try to delete add-ons one by one to determine which one is breaking things

But I have dozens of add-ons, so that doesn't help much.

You might be able to find an error message in your log file which indicates which add-on is causing the issue.

According to https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/issues/6780 there should be a message in the log file that looks like this:

Code: Select all

error config: found modification with id=Dead_Bodies twice

Yeah. I start Wesnoth from command line, so I see those. When not from command line, I guess yeah, should be written to some log files