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A wrapper that does winetricks things for Proton enabled games, requires Winetricks.
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SyntaxError: Unknown data type at index 9: b'a' #148

Closed IanTrudel closed 2 years ago

IanTrudel commented 2 years ago

The following is happening on any games that I would select.

protontricks --gui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ian/.local/bin/protontricks", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(cli())
  File "/home/ian/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 30, in cli
    main(args)
  File "/home/ian/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 148, in wrapper
    return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/ian/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 249, in main
    steam_path=steam_path, steam_apps=steam_apps, appid=steam_app.appid
  File "/home/ian/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 718, in find_proton_app
    steam_path=steam_path, steam_apps=steam_apps, appid=appid)
  File "/home/ian/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 506, in find_steam_compat_tool_app
    section for section in iter_appinfo_sections(appinfo_path)
  File "/home/ian/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 506, in <listcomp>
    section for section in iter_appinfo_sections(appinfo_path)
  File "/home/ian/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 428, in iter_appinfo_sections
    vdf_d = vdf.binary_loads(data[i:i+vdf_section_size])
  File "/home/ian/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/vdf/__init__.py", line 366, in binary_loads
    raise SyntaxError("Unknown data type at index %d: %s" % (idx-1, repr(t)))
SyntaxError: Unknown data type at index 9: b'a'
Matoking commented 2 years ago

I'm unable to reproduce this on Steam Beta (built on May 2 2022, at 17:46:48). You can check the Steam version at Help -> About Steam, and whether you are rolled into Steam beta under Settings -> Account -> Beta participation. Please add those into a reply as it may help narrow down the cause.

Before that, we could try to rule out appinfo.vdf being corrupted, although that is unlikely. To check this, close Steam, then open the directory /home/ian/.steam/steam/appcache/ in a file browser and either delete appinfo.vdf or rename it. Restart Steam and wait until the file reappears, and then try running Protontricks again.

IanTrudel commented 2 years ago

Hmmm. I had the same Steam Beta but updated to May 10 2022, at 16:13:12 and removed appinfo.vdf. Protontricks seems to be working now. Gave it a spin and installed a few things and ran winecfg. What a world we live in, what a world.