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vampirzocker said:
like i said all was loaded even my last played game but the game category within the xmb was completely empty, there was nothing but "GAME", i could use webman but it doesnt work because when the gae index was empty i could start the loaded disc and other things
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My bad. Missed your very 1st post...

So basically everything was working as it should apart from an empty webMAN Games folder?

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nope entire xmb "game" tab was missing except for "Game" in that tab

my tastatur is shit...

ps
uhm i said it could not load a disc because there was no disc icon and all other things in the game tab were also missing...

i just got the info XXX loaded but i couldnt do anything

i reinstalled the FW and used psnpatch than the game tab loaded and webman isworking with psnpatch installation too

pps
at first there was the game tab than i installed webman with the installer, after that there was not a single icon in the game-tab
 
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vampirzocker said:
nope entire xmb "game" tab was missing except for "Game" in that tab
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So basically no saved Data/Game data.... As if category_game.xml was corrupted?
I know the problem is solved but like you I'd like to understand...
[MENTION=118]kozarovv[/MENTION]
Even though there is category_game.xml included in the pkg, doesn't the wMM updater modify category_game.xml according to the environment in which we install?

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vampirzocker said:
nope entire xmb "game" tab was missing except for "Game" in that tab

my tastatur is shit...

ps
uhm i said it could not load a disc because there was no disc icon and all other things in the game tab were also missing...

i just got the info XXX loaded but i couldnt do anything

i reinstalled the FW and used psnpatch than the game tab loaded and webman isworking with psnpatch installation too

pps
at first there was the game tab than i installed webman with the installer, after that there was not a single icon in the game-tab
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The empty Game column happens when your category_game.xml is corrupted, deleted or have bad entries.
That file is found in /dev_blind/vsh/resource/explore/xmb

It can be solved reinstalling the CFW or replacing the xml with a good one if webMAN's FTP is running or launching one of those FTP Servers that get installed on the Network column as OpenFTP.
 
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I think Playerkp420 cfw is causing this issue , it has Install Package as the first option in the Game column , not the last . Maybe this is enough for the category_game.xml to be "corrupted"
 
Thanks [MENTION=89]aldostools[/MENTION]. It confirms what I thought.

However, what does the updater exactly do regarding the category_game.xml file?
My understanding is that it parses the current category_game.xml to check if changes are needed. Then what? It modifies the file? What about the xml file included in the updater?
(sorry am lazy, I could look at the code... I know... )
[MENTION=1708]arcadekidflo[/MENTION]
Didn't [MENTION=21052]vampirzocker[/MENTION] say he is using Ferrox?


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im using players 4.78

and yes i had the same idea and was surprised because of the package installer too... but even if thats correct, with psn patch it works and repeatedly with the installer not, dont know why

(ps
with that fw, my ps3 crashed when i wanted to look in to my downloadlist... blackscreen...another try it freezes a little bit, didnt experience something like that before)
 
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I know this is "drastic" way but i think that only way to resolve that bug is to upload here your corrupted category_game.xml file. You need to reproduce that bug, then get file via ftp, and post it here.
 
kozarovv said:
I know this is "drastic" way but i think that only way to resolve that bug is to upload here your corrupted category_game.xml file. You need to reproduce that bug, then get file via ftp, and post it here.
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I extracted the category_game.xml from Playerkp420's 4.78 PUP and found that the file is saved in unix style (line breaks are 0A char).
However the string used to find the position where the file will be patched has CR+LF as line breaks (0D 0A). I checked the same file in 4.78 FERROX and it's saved with CR+LF.

I have modified the updater to search the string in both styles, but it needs to be tested with an untouched category_game.xml:
http://aldostools.org/temp/test/webMAN_MOD_1.43.25_Updater_test.pkg

BTW the package includes an updated VSH Menu and added a new link (in the game count text) of the HTML game list that prompts for text to filter the content by name.
 
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vampirzocker said:
so after some crashes and stucking moments....

Before:
'category_game.xml' | TextUploader.com

after
'category_game.xml' | TextUploader.com

there was also:

before:
'category_game_tool2.xml' | TextUploader.com

after:
'category_game_tool2.xml' | TextUploader.com

there was also:

before:
'category_game_tool2.xml' | TextUploader.com

after:
'category_game_tool2.xml' | TextUploader.com
'category_game.xml.bak' | TextUploader.com

'category_game.xml.bak' | TextUploader.com
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Thanks for the uploads. webMAN MOD's updater does not touch the file 'category_game_tool2.xml', but 'category_game.xml' is getting corrupted probably due the line breaks in unix style.

You can test using the new updater: http://aldostools.org/temp/test/webMAN_MOD_1.43.25_Updater_test.pkg
 
if my ps3 wouldnt freeze for itself i would now say, the test pkg doesnt work at all

tried it 3 times, nothing really loads...one time i could see it was shortly loading but than nothing but blackscreen
 
it works now yes

and my ps3 freezes all the time because of psn patch and mamba i guess because after unloading psn patch it worked a little bit better
 
vampirzocker said:
it works now yes

and my ps3 freezes all the time because of psn patch and mamba i guess because after unloading psn patch it worked a little bit better
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So it was playerkp420!!
If it freezes all the time, eventually, you should maybe try Ferrox by Alexander.

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I seen the 0D happen to me before when copy n paste from wiki into notepad++.

I'm still noob at this, and will watch for that from now on. Should i be editing html files with something else? Or must type it out instead of copy n paste?

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playerkp420 said:
I seen the 0D happen to me before when copy n paste from wiki into notepad++.

I'm still noob at this, and will watch for that from now on. Should i be editing html files with something else? Or must type it out instead of copy n paste?

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notepad++ is fine... you only must be sure that that you don't change the file formats when saving ;)

These kind of mistakes are common because it only can be noticed when you open the text file in HxD.
 
bguerville said:
In notepad++ you can choose Unix style or Windows style...

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you can also write scripts to convert back and forth :)

using C is awesome, but a higher level language like perl or python makes editing files quick and painless, especially when you can run one liners right from console

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notepad++ ftw!!! you can even run it using wine in linux ;D
 
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