Unable to launch game.

[ghostlyentity]

I uh, i wish i could give a detailed description of whats going on btu this is the first time i have ever seen this happening, the play button is empty with these errors popping up

[RedPenguin88]

I am having the same issue. Here's my debug.log. Installed using Flatpak instructions here

[Chakrabortysoura]

i faced similar issue i checked the game directory seems nothing is changed there but when i trie to do a repair it didn't work out either. I got this error-

The launch button in the launcher is straight up missing.

[xolophreny]

Likewise, debug.log

[Mpaxlamitsounas]

Upon opening the launcher I'm getting these two errors: Failed to find game diff Failed to update launcher state debug.log

Lines of note are probably 318 and 327

Using flatpak 1.12.7 with launcher 1.6 (latest) on mint 21.3 with kernel 6.5.0-35

[jeremyjames2709]

Hi there, same issue over here.

debug.log

Thank you for the issue report!

[gabzou364]

i am having the same problem here

[ghostlyentity]

I can confirm that using the new 1.6.1 release, while it still throws one error and the windows loads a lil funky (likely my own fault) it works again

thank you for the quick update, i appreciate the great work being done here

[1Git2Clone]

Also had the same issue on Arch Linux, with the AUR it doesn't work for both the-honkers-railway-launcher-git and the the-honkers-railway-launcher-bin packages (with neither paru nor the vanilla makepkg -si route) but when i git clone from the repo directly and run cargo build --release from source and move my compiled binary to /usr/bin/ it works just fine.

And fortunately this route works on any Linux distro (just make sure to have rust installed) so it can be a solution for someone else who's reading this.

git clone https://github.com/an-anime-team/the-honkers-railway-launcher/ --depth=1 hsr_launcher_src_folder
cd hsr_launcher_src_folder
cargo build --release
sudo mv target/release/honkers-railway-launcher /usr/bin/

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As for the error itself it's related to the same message:

• invalid type: null, expected struct GamePredownloadInfo at line 1 column 2837

Here's my debug.log file as well.

[Chakrabortysoura]

Also had the same issue on Arch Linux, with the AUR it doesn't work for both the-honkers-railway-launcher-git and the the-honkers-railway-launcher-bin packages (with neither paru nor the vanilla makepkg -si route) but when i git clone from the repo directly and run cargo build --release from source and move my compiled binary to /usr/bin/ it works just fine.

And fortunately this route works on any Linux distro (just make sure to have rust installed) so it can be a solution for someone else who's reading this.

git clone https://github.com/an-anime-team/the-honkers-railway-launcher/ --depth=1 hsr_launcher_src_folder
cd hsr_launcher_src_folder
cargo build --release
sudo mv target/release/honkers-railway-launcher /usr/bin/

As for the error itself it's related to the same message:

• invalid type: null, expected struct GamePredownloadInfo at line 1 column 2837

Here's my debug.log file as well.

I tried to follow the methods provided and ran the cargo build but the build failed with these warning

Using pop_os 22.04LTS

[CarlosFelix19]

Same problem here

[Chrisss88]

yep cant be play for now

[1Git2Clone]

Also had the same issue on Arch Linux, with the AUR it doesn't work for both the-honkers-railway-launcher-git and the the-honkers-railway-launcher-bin packages (with neither paru nor the vanilla makepkg -si route) but when i git clone from the repo directly and run cargo build --release from source and move my compiled binary to /usr/bin/ it works just fine. And fortunately this route works on any Linux distro (just make sure to have rust installed) so it can be a solution for someone else who's reading this.

git clone https://github.com/an-anime-team/the-honkers-railway-launcher/ --depth=1 hsr_launcher_src_folder
cd hsr_launcher_src_folder
cargo build --release
sudo mv target/release/honkers-railway-launcher /usr/bin/

As for the error itself it's related to the same message:

• invalid type: null, expected struct GamePredownloadInfo at line 1 column 2837

Here's my debug.log file as well.

I tried to follow the methods provided and ran the cargo build but the build failed with these warning

Using pop_os 22.04LTS

@Chakrabortysoura

Try installing the dependency package from that error message hint:

sudo apt install libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev

[!NOTE] If you get similar error messages for required system libraries then make sure to install those as well.

[Chakrabortysoura]

@1Git2Clone i followed what u sayed and then it wanted gtk4 so i installed that using sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev build-essential but it still giving me this error.

BTW do we have any news from the devs regarding this issue?

[1Git2Clone]

@Chakrabortysoura

From my ubuntu:latest distrobox (since PopOS is ubuntu-based) I installed the following packages and it worked:

sudo apt install build-esential git libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgtk-4-dev librust-libadwaita-dev

Make sure to also update your system. That could also be the issue:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

If you have any package issues feel free to continue the replies.

As for news from the devs, nothing here.

[Chakrabortysoura]

@1Git2Clone nope still getting the gtk4 error even after updating apt but still issue persists and yes i installed the packages that u mention in your recent replies. Also while searching on apt the last package that u mentioned is not present as any apt package 'librust-libadwaita-dev'.

[1Git2Clone]

@1Git2Clone nope still getting the gtk4 error even after updating apt but still issue persists and yes i installed the packages that u mention in your recent replies. Also while searching on apt the last package that u mentioned is not present as any apt package 'librust-libadwaita-dev'.

@Chakrabortysoura

Thank you for the replies, it's weird that it's not present for you since it installs just fine on ubuntu:latest under the same name...

My suggestion is to use the search feature that apt provides

sudo apt search gtk4

and try to make out which GTK4 package you need for your system.

And

sudo apt search libadwaita

for the adwaita ones (but only do it if you need them, there's a chance you won't need them depending on your system's configuration).

[Chakrabortysoura]

@1Git2Clone no no i know how search in apt been a linux user for over 5 years now but from what i see libadwaita is not a package atleast when i am searching in pop os apt and gtk4 i did install the package so now i am not sure what might be causing the issue

[1Git2Clone]

@1Git2Clone no no i know how search in apt been a linux user for over 5 years now but from what i see libadwaita is not a package atleast when i am searching in pop os apt and gtk4 i did install the package so now i am not sure what might be causing the issue

@Chakrabortysoura You can try clearing the cargo cache i guess.

cargo clean

Other options can be:

• changing from stable to nightly and vice versa
• reinstalling the rust toolchain completely
• doing it on a new shell instance if you haven't tried that already
• running cargo update as well

[Chakrabortysoura]

didn't work out guess i will play on mobile for now till they patch it

[AmsT666]

I have the same problem.

[Chakrabortysoura]

@1Git2Clone tried some potential solution from some github issues thread where people were facing the same issue if u can can u share the actual binary that u mentioned in your post earlier. I am assuming the file that you are moving in as binary for the launcher.

Also any news about the potential solution for the issue from the devs?

[1Git2Clone]

@1Git2Clone tried some potential solution from some github issues thread where people were facing the same issue if u can can u share the actual binary that u mentioned in your post earlier. I am assuming the file that you are moving in as binary for the launcher.

Also any news about the potential solution for the issue from the devs?

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@Chakrabortysoura Here you go

honkers-railway-launcher.zip

sha256sums:

• 8f1a055ea6d1004d86adfc5c965f9edf64607fecff452854c81adf2c389ded3e honkers-railway-launcher.zip
• d4f4e28f385bfa522ac76de5349634f993792d54c02221619ac0234f50575369 honkers-railway-launcher (the binary contained within the zip)

Video of me compiling it to verify the origins of the sha256sums: https://youtu.be/4Dz9VIhRvRk

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As for dev news, I've joined their discord server to check out the other member's issues and some of them were facing the same one. There were some suggestions like for example for the flatpak users, a member suggested to roll back the release like this:

flatpak update --commit=46bf5b10e99c3a011a24f5cbb2b59564ea9e01b1e7c3c3c1e3df995fe05d5045 moe.launcher.the-honkers-railway-launcher

Additionally, from @krypt0nn (the main dev) there was this message in the discord yesterday:

Little state update. Fix is trivial, update will be available today in a couple of hours

Speaking of yesterday, version 1.6.1 came out back then as well.

https://github.com/an-anime-team/the-honkers-railway-launcher/releases/tag/1.6.1

The binary provided in my zip was compiled based on it anyway so you can just use their one instead. Another member said it works just fine with the new release as well.

[ax6842]

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yep cant be play for now

to @Chrisss88 about Genshin Impact I play PortProton version = no have any problem yesterday or this year!! and many torrent edition game I lunch use PortProton (last game Palworld, and Graveyard Keeper)

about Honkay Star Rail. I use Honkers Railway Launcher on linux it's 1 easy on box HSR game work launcher (Lutris, Steam and Epick - no work, and I no know how to make it work). And like everyone here, yesterday I have problem with Honkay Star Rail and any time if HSR update (99%) or update kernel (1%) use Honkers Railway Launcher.

to Honkers Railway Launcher creators! May be try any contacts with PortProton team (It Russian team) and talk about hoyolab atni-cheat and PortProton versions Genshin use any gate??

PortProton Website: https://linux-gaming.ru/ Discord: http://discord.gg/yJSEFjF VK: https://vk.com/linuxgamingru

[Chakrabortysoura]

i just reinstalled the launcher and it's now updated to v 1.6.1 but now another new issue now when i launch it shows this window and then a sudden black terminal looking window and then just back to this launcher screen.

[Chakrabortysoura]

@1Git2Clone now i am not sure i am gonna try to fresh install the whole game again

[AmsT666]

After update black screen(

Upd After 10 restarting it's run