Swirlygiver Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 My default dash is XBMC4GAMERS. Out of the blue. I boot up my Xbox and I get XBMC Fatal Error: special://master profile/guisettings.xml, Line 0 Failed to open file Help? What do I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cian Cunningham Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 Hi, I have been talking to Rocky5 just now about this when I saw the email notification. So basically your guisettings.xml is corrupt due to you either turning off the console as it was writing to the file or you starting a game as it was writing to the file. You should be able to FTP in from there. If not grab your favourite disk that will allow FTP, his extras disk for example. Remove the guisettings.xml and it will be replaced. Or overwrite it with the guisettings.xml from the prebuilt xbmc4gamers on his GitHub. Or hold Y+White when booting to force recovery mode. All the best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 What folder do I place it in? The folder I find it in in the install files, is empty on the Xbox, and it doesn’t want to take the files there by ftp. It says 550 file name invalid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 (edited) I can’t seem to ftp them in can I burn them to disc and copy them in from file manager in UnleahX? Edited February 2, 2020 by Swirlygiver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naits Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 2 minutes ago, Swirlygiver said: I can’t seem to ftp them in can I burn them to disc and copy them in from file manager in UnleahX? Are you using FTP while the Xbox is on the fatal error image? if so, try to run Rocky5s extra disc and then FTP into the Xbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 I’ve tried fro that screen. I’ve tried while running UnleashX, and I’ve tried while booted fromHeXEn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 This is what I get, see pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 (edited) I just created a new \XBMC4gamers\system directory and I was able to ftp the contents to it. But I still get the same screen. should I try deleting XBMC4gamers, and starting over? If I do that, will I need to reinstall the artwork? Edited February 2, 2020 by Swirlygiver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 When I made the new \system directory, I had to rename the old one. And it won’t let me delete that one. Somehow it’s as though that still the directory it’s looking at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 (edited) I'm still stumped. I even went into File Manager on UnleashX and tried moving the XBMC4gamers folder from E to F, thinking I would replace it with a new copy. The directory \XBMC4gamers\System cannont be moved, it can be copied, I managed to rename it and create a new one with the correct contents. But it still won't delete or move. So I'm completely lost on how to get it running again. I've temporarily switched back to booting to UnleashX, but I really loved XBMC4gamers, and want it back.... 5 hours ago, Cian Cunningham said: Hi, I have been talking to Rocky5 just now about this when I saw the email notification. So basically your guisettings.xml is corrupt due to you either turning off the console as it was writing to the file or you starting a game as it was writing to the file. You should be able to FTP in from there. If not grab your favourite disk that will allow FTP, his extras disk for example. Remove the guisettings.xml and it will be replaced. Or overwrite it with the guisettings.xml from the prebuilt xbmc4gamers on his GitHub. Or hold Y+White when booting to force recovery mode. All the best It appears to be more than just that file that corrupted somehow because that \XBMC4gamers\system\ directory was empty. And my FTP problems were just while trying to access/write to that directory. Any help is greatly appreciated. Edited February 2, 2020 by Swirlygiver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naits Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 Okay, this is defiantly weird.. I googled around a bit. I found this: https://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=953 But I am unsure if that will help. But worth a look I guess. I am in the process of making XBMC my main dashboard too.. So I hope I don't run into any kind of issues like this.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 Thanks naits. But That doesnt help much. I can FTP in, I just don't know how get it going again.. I am running it on a TSOP v1.0, which already had the softmod files removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naits Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 Just now, Swirlygiver said: Thanks naits. But That doesnt help much. I can FTP in, I just don't know how get it going again.. I am running it on a TSOP v1.0, which already had the softmod files removed. Np man, I am out of ideas for now.. I will post back if I find something related to this. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 What's the remote directory listing look like - the Xbox side of things? Also, download the xbmc.log file, post a copy of it to pastebin.com and add a link to it in a new comment here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 The directory listing looked normal other than, like I said, the XBMC4gamers\system directory was empty, and won’t let me do anything with it. Do I need to join this site, to do this: 8 minutes ago, KaosEngineer said: Also, download the xbmc.log file, post a copy of it to pastebin.com and add a link to it in a new comment here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 17 minutes ago, Swirlygiver said: The directory listing looked normal other than, like I said, the XBMC4gamers\system directory was empty, and won’t let me do anything with it. Do I need to join this site, to do this: No, you can post as a guest on pastebin.com and copy the link from your browser on the page after you submit the file contents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 https://pastebin.com/ikBL23F8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 To me, it looks like there's something wrong with the hard drive: 15:47:35 M: 56582144 NOTICE: Mapping drive T to Harddisk0\Partition1\XBMC4Gamers\system\UserData\ 15:47:35 M: 56582144 ERROR: Failed to create symbolic link! (status=0xc0000034) and 15:47:41 M: 56553472 NOTICE: Mapping drive P to Harddisk0\Partition1\XBMC4Gamers\system\UserData\ 15:47:41 M: 56553472 ERROR: Failed to create symbolic link! (status=0xc0000034) 15:47:41 M: 56553472 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/ 15:47:41 M: 56553472 NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml 15:47:41 M: 56553472 ERROR: Unable to load special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml, creating new special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml with default values 15:47:41 M: 56508416 ERROR: Unable to save settings to special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml Previous line repeats 1 times. These drive mappings, file access and new file creation of guisettings.xml are failing. Is XBMC4Gamer's your default dashboard? Can you run a different replacement dashboard (e.g., UnleashX) instead of XBMC4Gamers? If so, how much free space is available on the hard drive partition where XBMC4Gamer's is installed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 (edited) it was a brand new drive. I had made XBMC4gamers the default dash, but I'm now booting to UnleashX temporarily. I'll have to look at whats left on E. That's where they say to put XBMC4gamers. I did move all the Apps out of E, in case space was becoming an issue. What's odd is it's only the \XBMC4gamers and \XBMC4gamers\system directories that it won't let me do anything with Edited February 3, 2020 by Swirlygiver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Swirlygiver Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 It is installed on E. I really want to get it running again, as long as I don’t have to wipe the drive and start completely over. I have a ton of stuff on there so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 I got it working again. I ended up renaming the XBMC4gamers directory, the ftp-ing a whole new copy in. After that I deleted the original copy. The XBMC4gamers\system directory won’t delete though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swirlygiver Posted February 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 So now that I have it working, maybe I caused this by shutting off while XBMC was writing, as mentioned earlier in the thread. Is there anything different about ending games or shutting off as compared to other dashboards? I still soft boot after Xbox games, right? I have been using return to launcher on emulators and homebrew when I see it. I shutdown from the controls in xbmc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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