GSX setting not saved (The fix did work perfectly!!)

[kozmicelly]

Hi Virruali,

As you can see in the Subject, GSX setting isn't saved.
I changed the Boarding time, Follow Me Car speed and so on,
and hit the "Apply" and "OK" button but the setting window doesn't disappear.
And when I restart FSX everything went back to the default settings.
I've searched this topic in the forum, and
I gave "full control on the %APPDATA%\Virtuali folder", but
I'm only user of this PC (Admin).

What should I do ?

Thank you.

Elly

[virtuali]

and hit the "Apply" and "OK" button but the setting window doesn't disappear.

This is not normal, and nobody ever reported it before. Settings not save are probably just a side effect of this. Check your %APPDATA%\Virtuali folder and see if you have a Couatl.ERR inside, if yes, post its content.

[kozmicelly]

Thank you for your reply.

I realized this issue tonight, but it seems this issue began long before.
Anyway, I got a long err file and the contents are almost the same so,
I C&P the latest part (nothing in March).
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couatl v2.0 (build 2346)
panic log started on Fri Feb 15 21:48:02 2013
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "couatl\GSX\__init__.py", line 516, in onSimStart
  File "couatl\GSX\__init__.py", line 469, in checkOnGroundState
  File "couatl\GSX\__init__.py", line 419, in checkAirplane
RuntimeError: CreateFile failed: Žw’肳‚ꂽƒtƒ@ƒCƒ‹‚ªŒ©‚‚©‚è‚Ü‚¹‚ñB

couatl v2.0 (build 2346)
panic log started on Fri Feb 15 21:48:19 2013
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "couatl\GSX\__init__.py", line 419, in checkAirplane
RuntimeError: CreateFile failed: Žw’肳‚ꂽƒtƒ@ƒCƒ‹‚ªŒ©‚‚©‚è‚Ü‚¹‚ñB

couatl v2.0 (build 2346)
panic log started on Fri Feb 15 21:56:08 2013
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "couatl\GSX\__init__.py", line 419, in checkAirplane
RuntimeError: CreateFile failed: Žw’肳‚ꂽƒtƒ@ƒCƒ‹‚ªŒ©‚‚©‚è‚Ü‚¹‚ñB

couatl v2.0 (build 2346)
panic log started on Fri Feb 15 22:07:25 2013
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "couatl\GSX\__init__.py", line 419, in checkAirplane
RuntimeError: CreateFile failed: Žw’肳‚ꂽƒtƒ@ƒCƒ‹‚ªŒ©‚‚©‚è‚Ü‚¹‚ñB

couatl v2.0 (build 2346)
panic log started on Fri Feb 15 22:20:12 2013
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "couatl\GSX\__init__.py", line 419, in checkAirplane
RuntimeError: CreateFile failed: Žw’肳‚ꂽƒtƒ@ƒCƒ‹‚ªŒ©‚‚©‚è‚Ü‚¹‚ñB

couatl v2.0 (build 2346)
panic log started on Wed Feb 27 02:16:11 2013
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "couatl\common\fsm.py", line 61, in switchToState
  File "couatl\GSX\assistanceServices\baggageLoader.py", line 145, in enter
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'latLon'
......................................................................
Is this telling you something meangful?

Thank you.

Elly

[virtuali]

Is this telling you something meangful?

Only that you had errors, but not recently (as you noticed, there's nothing in March). But you previous errors seems to indicate you had a problem creating files, like a possible permissions problem, which can also affect saving your settings.

[kozmicelly]

Virtuali,

Thank you for your reply.

Quote : "previous errors seems to indicate you had a problem creating files, like a possible permissions problem"

OK, I'll check it out again and report back.

Elly

[kozmicelly]

Hi,

Admin setting is OK.
Isn't it strange that, though error happens many times threre's no record in err file?

So, I C&P latest log file.
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couatl v2.0 (build 2346)
log started on Sat Mar 16 16:08:44 2013

connecting to SimConnect...
connected to FSX
bglmanx non ready yet, waiting.
connected to bglmanx
Loading addons
requesting AddOn list to bglmanx
bglmanx list contains 18 AddOn(s)
Loading addon ZurichX
Addon ZurichX loaded
Loading addon OHareX
Addon OHareX loaded
Loading addon JFK
Addon JFK loaded
Loading addon XPOI
Addon XPOI not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
Loading addon LSGG
Addon LSGG loaded
Loading addon KLAS
Addon KLAS loaded
Loading addon KFLL
Addon KFLL loaded
Loading addon PHNL
Addon PHNL not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
Loading addon KDFW
Addon KDFW loaded
Loading addon HAWAII1
Addon HAWAII1 not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
Loading addon HAWAII2
Addon HAWAII2 not installed or missing one or more files, skipping
Loading addon KLAX
Addon KLAX loaded
Loading addon ParkMe
Addon ParkMe loaded
Loading addon GSX
Initializing audio...
Available devices:
  Generic Software on ƒXƒs[ƒJ[ (High Definition Audio ƒfƒoƒCƒX)
Created OpenAL device: Generic Software on ƒXƒs[ƒJ[ (High Definition Audio ƒfƒoƒCƒX)

Device info:
   Major version: 1
   Minor version: 1
   Frequency: 44100
   Refresh: 40
   Sync: 0
   Mono sources: 255
   Stereo sources: 1
   Extensions: ALC_ENUMERATE_ALL_EXT ALC_ENUMERATION_EXT ALC_EXT_CAPTURE ALC_EXT_EFX

Context info:
   Vendor: Creative Labs Inc.
   Version: 1.1
   Renderer: Software
   Extensions: EAX EAX2.0 EAX3.0 EAX4.0 EAX5.0 EAX3.0EMULATED EAX4.0EMULATED AL_EXT_OFFSET AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE AL_EXT_EXPONENT_DISTANCE


Starting system monitors
Current locale is Japanese_Japan.932
SharedMemInterface connected
Loading aircraft data from Airplanes\C172
aircraftDb.py provides aircraft data with priority 2
Using aircraft data from aircraftDb.py
Section [contact_points] contains invalid data at entry point.4
Loading airport KLAS from E:/FSX/FsDreamTeam/KLAS/scenery/AP_KLAS.BGL
Using airport customization from GSX.airports.klas_fsdt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "couatl\GSX\settingsDialog.py", line 416, in onApply
  File "couatl\GSX\settingsDialog.py", line 432, in commitSettings
  File "couatl\common\preferences.py", line 47, in writePreferencesToDisk
  File ".\ConfigParser.py", line 373, in write
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 20-24: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "couatl\GSX\settingsDialog.py", line 399, in onOk
  File "couatl\GSX\settingsDialog.py", line 432, in commitSettings
  File "couatl\common\preferences.py", line 47, in writePreferencesToDisk
  File ".\ConfigParser.py", line 373, in write
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 20-24: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "couatl\GSX\settingsDialog.py", line 416, in onApply
  File "couatl\GSX\settingsDialog.py", line 432, in commitSettings
  File "couatl\common\preferences.py", line 47, in writePreferencesToDisk
  File ".\ConfigParser.py", line 373, in write
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 20-24: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "couatl\GSX\settingsDialog.py", line 399, in onOk
  File "couatl\GSX\settingsDialog.py", line 432, in commitSettings
  File "couatl\common\preferences.py", line 47, in writePreferencesToDisk
  File ".\ConfigParser.py", line 373, in write
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 20-24: ordinal not in range(128)
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I noticed the last line, "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 20-24: ordinal not in range(128)".
Doesn't it have something to do with this issue?

Thank you.

Elly

[kozmicelly]

I found the cause of this issue.
The clue was  the word "UnicodeEncodeError" in the log file.

So I changed the Windows "system locale" from Japan to USA.
It worked!!
But I can't use other Japanese foftwares,
So I saved the GSX settings, then changed "system locale" back to Japan.

I wonder the other people using their mother language don't have this issue.

Anyway, thank you so much, Virtuali !

Elly

[virtuali]

Ok, I suspected it had something to do with the system locale, we'll try to fix this.

[kozmicelly]

Hi Virtuali,

Thank you for the fix for Win7 Japanese version.
It did work perfectly!!

Thank you again.

Elly