Xlobby hangs at the splash screen.

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Xlobby hangs at the splash screen.

Postby PiDD on Sat Nov 12, 2005 3:17 pm

I went away for a week and I get home all pumped to watch a movie only to find the PC froze. I reboot and Xlobby starts up but hangs at the 'setting' stage of the splash screen.

Any thoughts on what is wrong?

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Postby rembetis on Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:27 pm

The first thing I always try when Xlobby hangs during boot-up is to delete (or move) the xlobby.xml in the root directory. Then try to restart. You'll need to reset what skin you're using, and possibly the resolution (if it's different than your desktop res). If that doesn't work, you'll need to pick bigger brains than mine to help isolate the cause...
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Postby PiDD on Sat Nov 12, 2005 8:24 pm

I deleted the xlobby.xml .. now it hangs at events!

Help!
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Postby rembetis on Sat Nov 12, 2005 10:02 pm

Are you connected to the internet when you load? Another post mentioned that Xlobby can lock up if it's trying to access the net and can't...
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Postby rembetis on Sat Nov 12, 2005 10:13 pm

Worst case scenario, you could always archive that Xlobby installation, download the latest pre-release, and then copy over anything you customized, like skins, eventgroups, and databases. You would need to reset the paths for the database imports, and a couple other things, but all in all it shouldn't take too long.

If it still hangs, do the above step by step and see what the problem file/folder is...

Good luck!
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Postby hjackson on Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:14 am

"I deleted the xlobby.xml .. now it hangs at events! "

Sometimes when your PC freezes, an XML script in Xlobby can get corrupted. The area in the splash screen that Xlobby freezes at would be the problem file. You can go to your Eventgroups folder and click on each file to see which one is corrupted (assuming you're running XP, clicking on an XML file will open it in IE and will give you a message if it is corrupted). Since this may be tedious testing one file at a time, you can also remove several files at a time from the folder and restart Xlobby to see which batch of Eventgroup files has the bad file. Good luck.

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Postby PiDD on Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:39 pm

What is the 'settings' file?
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