[Flightgear-devel] A320/A330 property errors / missing files

[James T. <ja...@fl...>]

Hey folks,

Chasing down lingering aircraft issues on stable, there’s a large number (tens per day) from the A320 and A330 variants. This is with 2020.3.11 (usually), and the properties seem like ones which should exist:

	FGPropertyValue::GetValue() The property /instrumentation/airspeed-indicator/indicated-speed-kt does not exist.

	FGPropertyValue::GetValue() The property /instrumentation/pfd/logic/autoland/pitch-land does not exist.

	FGPropertyValue::GetValue() The property fcs/elevator-fbw-output does not exist.

.. and so on..

The common feature is that these failures are preceded by a large number of missing files, including all the Nasal files:

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Error:error-type-not-found from error-aircraft-systems::FGInstrumentMgr: Missing instrumentation file
Error:error-type-not-found from error-aircraft-systems::Autopilot XML not found:Aircraft/A320neo/Systems/FMGC/auto-throttle.xml
	Aircraft/A320neo/Systems/FMGC/auto-throttle.xml
Cannot find property-rule configuration file 'Aircraft/A320neo/Systems/FMGC/auto-throttle.xml'.
Error:error-type-not-found from error-aircraft-systems::Autopilot XML not found:Aircraft/A320neo/Systems/FMGC/aileron-ctrl.xml
	Aircraft/A320neo/Systems/FMGC/aileron-ctrl.xml
Cannot find Nasal script 'Aircraft/A320neo/Nasal/mCDU/init_A.nas' for module 'mcdu’.
Cannot find Nasal script 'Aircraft/A320neo/Nasal/procedures/fmsDB.nas' for module 'procedures'.
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(above is just a sample, basically it seems almost everything is missing)

I guess that for some reason nearly all the aircraft data files are not found, but this only seems to happen for the A320  and its variants (A319, neo, etc, etc), and for the A330 and its variants (KC,  Voyager, etc). Is there anything special about the file layout that might cause this complete failure of all the ancillary files to load? It seems the -set.xml itself is present and loads correctly, but almost nothing else does?

One thing to note is these are /not/ aircraft installed via the package/hangar system, I don’t know if there is some other common source for these aircraft? Maybe people are screwing up the directory name when manually adding the aircraft?

Kind regards,
James