Why is Minion not working AT ALL?

[perigorn]

Ok so here's what happens: (see attached pic)

What's going on with Minion.

It won't go beyond checking for add-ons.....

[BornDownUnder]

Originally Posted by perigorn Ok so here's what happens: (see attached pic) What's going on with Minion. It won't go beyond checking for add-ons.....

Unfortunately you have not posted much in the way of details for anybody to offer assistance, those details in terms of your OS version, system specs, your attempts at troubleshooting, etc.

My complete stab in the dark is you have recently downloaded Minion after you have already installed addons and for some reason Minion is hanging when it finds those addons, for some reason it cannot handle those addons being there, as Minion has not been used to install them (Don't quote me on that though as I am no coder/programmer) Lets try some quick troubleshooting attempts though:

Have you tried running Minion with Administrative Rights? It might be an permissions issue where Minion is being denied access to folders where you have your addons.

One thing you could try is to temporarily remove your addons folder from the file directory:
Libraries\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\ (For Windows 7) or
C:\Users\<UserProfileName>\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\ (Most other OS file structure)

Another quick troubleshooting attempt I may suggest is to delete the minion.xml file located:
C:\Users\<UserProfileName>\.minion\

If that fails, then I would suggest attempting to re-install Minion itself.

If none of those quick and easy troubleshooting attempts don't assist you, can you attach your minion.log file so others can try and assist further, generally that is the best method to get assistance with application issues of any kind.

[Dolby]

That usually indicates a problem in your minion.xml

Can you post your minion.xml and minion0.log here? They are located in the windows user folder under the .minion folder. C:\Users\<your windows username>\.minion

[perigorn]

Log file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE log SYSTEM "logger.dtd">
<log>
<record>
<date>2014-05-22T23:45:19</date>
<millis>1400827519143</millis>
<sequence>0</sequence>
<logger>com.zam.minion.Minion</logger>
<level>FINE</level>
<class>com.zam.minion.Minion</class>
<method>start</method>
<thread>14</thread>
<message>Font: Font[name=Interstate Mono, family=Interstate Mono, style=Regular, size=20.0]</message>
</record>
<record>
<date>2014-05-22T23:45:19</date>
<millis>1400827519751</millis>
<sequence>1</sequence>
<logger>com.zam.minion.controller.MinionController</logger>
<level>FINE</level>
<class>com.zam.minion.controller.MinionController</class>
<method>initWindowControls</method>
<thread>14</thread>
<message>Controls initialized.</message>
</record>
<record>
<date>2014-05-22T23:45:20</date>
<millis>1400827520825</millis>
<sequence>2</sequence>
<logger>com.zam.minion.controller.MinionController</logger>
<level>FINE</level>
<class>com.zam.minion.controller.MinionController</class>
<method>initBuildAndVersion</method>
<thread>14</thread>
<message>Build: a4eda34624173feaabb26e75cf18c5f968301fec</message>
</record>
<record>
<date>2014-05-22T23:45:20</date>
<millis>1400827520826</millis>
<sequence>3</sequence>
<logger>com.zam.minion.controller.MinionController</logger>
<level>FINE</level>
<class>com.zam.minion.controller.MinionController</class>
<method>initBuildAndVersion</method>
<thread>14</thread>
<message>Version: 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</message>
</record>
<record>
<date>2014-05-22T23:45:23</date>
<millis>1400827523081</millis>
<sequence>4</sequence>
<logger>com.zam.minion.service.AddOnDetectionService</logger>
<level>SEVERE</level>
<class>com.zam.minion.service.AddOnDetectionService</class>
<method>getFilteredDirs</method>
<thread>31</thread>
<exception>
<message>java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: C:\Documents and Settings</message>
<frame>
<class>sun.nio.fs.WindowsException</class>
<method>translateToIOException</method>
<line>83</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>sun.nio.fs.WindowsException</class>
<method>rethrowAsIOException</method>
<line>97</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>sun.nio.fs.WindowsException</class>
<method>rethrowAsIOException</method>
<line>102</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>sun.nio.fs.WindowsDirectoryStream</class>
<method>&lt;init&gt;</method>
<line>86</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider</class>
<method>newDirectoryStream</method>
<line>510</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>java.nio.file.Files</class>
<method>newDirectoryStream</method>
<line>543</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>com.zam.minion.service.AddOnDetectionService</class>
<method>getFilteredDirs</method>
<line>511</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>com.zam.minion.service.AddOnDetectionService</class>
<method>checkSavedExist</method>
<line>113</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>com.zam.minion.service.AddOnDetectionService</class>
<method>access$000</method>
<line>65</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>com.zam.minion.service.AddOnDetectionService$1</class>
<method>call</method>
<line>83</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>com.zam.minion.service.AddOnDetectionService$1</class>
<method>call</method>
<line>79</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>javafx.concurrent.Task$TaskCallable</class>
<method>call</method>
<line>1259</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>java.util.concurrent.FutureTask</class>
<method>run</method>
<line>262</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor</class>
<method>runWorker</method>
<line>1145</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker</class>
<method>run</method>
<line>615</line>
</frame>
<frame>
<class>java.lang.Thread</class>
<method>run</method>
<line>724</line>
</frame>
</exception>
</record>
<record>
<date>2014-05-22T23:45:23</date>
<millis>1400827523083</millis>
<sequence>5</sequence>
<logger>com.zam.minion.controller.MinionController</logger>
<level>SEVERE</level>
<class>com.zam.minion.controller.MinionController$22$1</class>
<method>invalidated</method>
<thread>14</thread>
<message>AddOn Detection failed: java.lang.NullPointerException</message>
</record>

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XML File:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<minion>
<version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>a4eda34624173feaabb26e75cf18c5f968301fec</build>
<client>
<concurrent-updates>2</concurrent-updates>
<game-scan-depth>4</game-scan-depth>
</client>
<user>
<ga-user-id>2f46e614-7ca5-45b4-aca0-8708039b11ca</ga-user-id>
<login-id>Guest</login-id>
</user>
<games>
<game addon-path="C:\Documents and Settings" auto-update="true" game-id="ESO" unique-game-id="ESO-1"/>
</games>
</minion>

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I have also attached these two files for download here.

[Dolby]

Hi perigorn,

Looking at your minion.xml you have a bad path in there. Easiest way to fix this is to delete your minion.xml and restart Minion.

[Riannoc]

I actually experienced the same problem after the last Minion update. Yesterday it seemed the same mods updated multiple times, then today Minion crashed my computer. When I rebooted I went into an endless loop of "there's a new version of Minion" notices and updates.

I uninstalled and reinstalled but couldn't get things working. Eventually I dug it out of my drive and got it reinstalled but found that it kept hanging on a specific update - InventoryInsight 0.5.1. It would not complete this update, so I exited and manually downloaded and installed it, then launched Minion and it recognized that the mod was now up to date. This update was part of the batch that kept getting stuck yesterday as well, so I think Minion is having a problem handling it for some reason.

[perigorn]

Originally Posted by Dolby Hi perigorn, Looking at your minion.xml you have a bad path in there. Easiest way to fix this is to delete your minion.xml and restart Minion.

OK so I got it to boot up and run, BUT now it's saying that it can't find any of my installed add-ons (sigh). I even told it where to find the add-on directory, etc. but it doesn't work. Why is it so freaking hard to get this program working, I mean seriously. I never had any problems with the Curse.com addon software when I was playing WOW, what gives?