#3340 Freecol process closes immediately after starting

[Adrian]

I'm on Windows 7 and am experiencing this problem with Freecol version 1.0 and 1.1. Whenever I install Freecol and then run the .exe file, it looks like no program is running on my screen. Using the Task Manager I see that two Freecol processes start immediately after I run the .exe, then close in less than a second. Because of this I have not been able to play the game.

[Stian Grenborgen]

A couple of questions:

1. Did you install the game with the installer that includes Java ("freecol-1.1.0-with-java.exe (sourceforge.net)")?

2. Could you attach the file "FreeCol.log" from the folder "Documents\freecol" to this bug report?

Possible workaround
My intial guess is that you are running on 32 bit (x86) since we have only tested FreeCol on 64 bit (x64) Windows 7. If that is the case, you can probably install Java manually and run FreeCol using "freecol.cmd".

Java can be downloaded from: https://adoptium.net/temurin/

[g504]

I have the same experience. Two threads are left behind, one is 0% cpu and 0.7MB, the second is 0% cpu and 784MB.

FreeCol v1.1.0 (installed from pack with Java)
Windows 10 22H2 build 19045.3570
Java SE Dev Kit 17.0.5 (64 bit)

Installed from "freecol-1.1.0-with-java.exe" on to drive D:
Launched to full screen from entry in start menu
No log file in documents\freecol

[g504]

UPDATE: No log because of Windows protected location feature. Now here is the log after I allowed FreeCol to write to documents folder.

FreeCol game version: 1.1.0 (Revision: e66700b)
FreeCol protocol version: 0.1.6

Java vendor: Eclipse Adoptium
Java version: 19.0.2
Java WM name: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
Java WM vendor: Eclipse Adoptium
Java WM version: 19.0.2+7

OS name: Windows 10
OS architecture: amd64
OS version: 10.0

net.sf.freecol.common.util.LogBuilder log
INFO: sun.java2d.pmoffscreen using client option: true, sun.java2d.opengl using client option: true
Thu Nov 02 17:13:26 GMT 2023
Thread: 1
net.sf.freecol.FreeCol main
INFO: Configuration:
version 1.1.0 (Revision: e66700b)
java: 19.0.2
memory: 8573157376
locale: en_GB
data: data
userConfig: D:\Users\tim\Documents\freecol
userData: D:\Users\ooo\Documents\freecol
autosave: D:\Users\ooo\Documents\freecol\save\autosave
logFile: D:\Users\ooo\Documents\freecol\FreeCol.log
options: D:\Users\ooo\Documents\freecol\freecol\options.xml
save: D:\Users\ooo\Documents\freecol\save
userMods: D:\Users\ooo\Documents\freecol\mods
seed: 8105321648018202434
debug:
Thu Nov 02 17:13:26 GMT 2023
Thread: 1
net.sf.freecol.common.resources.FontResource <init>
INFO: Loaded font: Dialog.plain from: urn:font:Dialog-PLAIN-12
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.common.resources.FontResource <init>
INFO: Loaded font: ShadowedBlack from: file:/d:/Program%20Files/freecol/data/base/resources/fonts/ShadowedBlack.ttf
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.common.resources.FontResource <init>
INFO: Loaded font: Serif.plain from: urn:font:Serif-PLAIN-12
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.client.FreeColClient loadClientOptions
INFO: Load default client options.
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.common.option.OptionGroup load
INFO: Load OptionGroup(clientOptions) from data\base\client-options.xml succeeded
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.client.FreeColClient loadClientOptions
INFO: Load client options from the action manager.
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.client.FreeColClient loadClientOptions
INFO: Merge client options from user options file: D:\Users\ooo\Documents\freecol\freecol\options.xml
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.common.option.OptionGroup load
INFO: Load OptionGroup(clientOptions) from D:\Users\ooo\Documents\freecol\freecol\options.xml succeeded
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.client.gui.SwingGUI determineScaleFactorUsingClientOptions
INFO: Automatic scale factor: 1.25 (reported DPI: 96, screen height: 1440)
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.client.gui.SwingGUI <init>
INFO: GUI constructed using scale factor 1.25
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.client.gui.SwingGUI determineMainFontSizeUsingClientOptions
INFO: Automatic font size: 16 (reported DPI: 96, screen height: 1440)
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.client.control.SoundController <init>
INFO: Create sound player with [model.option.audioMixer PL3493WQ (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)/PL3493WQ (NVIDIA High Definition Audio), version Unknown Version]
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.common.sound.SoundPlayer setMixer
INFO: Mixer PL3493WQ (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)/PL3493WQ (NVIDIA High Definition Audio), version Unknown Version selected
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.common.sound.SoundPlayer setMixer
INFO: Mixer PL3493WQ (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)/PL3493WQ (NVIDIA High Definition Audio), version Unknown Version selected
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
net.sf.freecol.common.resources.ResourceManager$1 run
INFO: Preload thread started
Thu Nov 02 17:13:27 GMT 2023
Thread: 50
net.sf.freecol.common.resources.ResourceManager$1 run
INFO: Preload done, 1293 resources.
Thu Nov 02 17:13:34 GMT 2023
Thread: 50
net.sf.freecol.client.FreeColClient lambda$overrideDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler$8
WARNING: Uncaught exception from thread: Thread[#29,AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main]
Thu Nov 02 17:13:34 GMT 2023
Thread: 29
Stack trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Missing option: model.option.mapControls
at net.sf.freecol.common.option.OptionGroup.getOption(OptionGroup.java:406)
at net.sf.freecol.common.option.OptionContainer.getString(OptionContainer.java:194)
at net.sf.freecol.client.gui.panel.MapControls.newInstance(MapControls.java:207)
at net.sf.freecol.client.gui.SwingGUI.startGUI(SwingGUI.java:798)
at net.sf.freecol.client.FreeColClient.lambda$new$0(FreeColClient.java:279)
at java.desktop/java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)</init></init></init></init></init>

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[Stian Grenborgen]

@g504: I think this issue might have been fixed in the development version some time ago. Could you test that version and report back?

[g504]

@Stian
I will try. I am away from the computer for 8 days.