Error Reading OpenMW Configuration Files

[Cl3v3rP0tat0]

TLDR: After much pain, frustration and gnashing of teeth - I removed the repo and cleaned up the remaining configs. I added back the repo, verified that it was 48 - reinstalled and lo and behold everything proceeded as a new installation. Everything works, I've load up my mod list (mostly Rebirth) and have updated my Navmesh cache. All is well, but it was a long day of circular disappointments.

I have had plenty of issues today starting from an update that fouled my working install of 48 - so at present a clean install of 48 is what I seek to achieve.

For some reason, OPENMW is not allowing for a clean fresh install. Why is it looking for config files? It has my Steam Data File directory and everything else I will setup again from scratch. I suspect OPENMW is not removing itself cleanly or something, I scrubbed all traces I could find using locate and Synaptic Package Manager.

When I skip the wizard, the game runs up with a load screen image, just a brown or purplish screen and then I can't use the onscreen menu to exit the game and have to ALT+F4. (Presently, I just drop to desktop, CTD - log posted below.)

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[21:20:57.274 W] No such dir: /home/cl3v3r/.local/share/openmw/data

<------ the new install still looks for old locations from earlier installs even after COMPLETE REMOVAL by package manager.

This really makes it hard to troubleshoot a problem if I can't reset my installation completely. What other files is OPENMW using that keeps me locked in a loop?

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[21:20:57.265 I] OpenMW version 0.49.0
[21:20:57.268 I] Loading settings file: /etc/openmw/defaults.bin
[21:20:57.272 I] Loading settings file: /home/cl3v3r/.config/openmw/settings.cfg
[21:20:57.274 I] Using default (English) font encoding.
[21:20:57.274 W] No such dir: /home/cl3v3r/.local/share/openmw/data
[21:20:57.276 I] OSG version: 3.6.5
[21:20:57.276 I] SDL version: 2.0.20
[21:20:57.278 I] Loading shader settings file: /home/cl3v3r/.config/openmw/shaders.yaml
[21:20:57.796 I] OpenGL Vendor: Intel
[21:20:57.796 I] OpenGL Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics (CHV)
[21:20:57.796 I] OpenGL Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.3
[21:20:57.796 I] Using reverse-z depth buffer
[21:20:57.799 I] Adding BSA archive /home/cl3v3r/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Morrowind/Data Files/Morrowind.bsa
[21:20:57.810 I] Adding BSA archive /home/cl3v3r/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Morrowind/Data Files/Tribunal.bsa
[21:20:57.814 I] Adding BSA archive /home/cl3v3r/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Morrowind/Data Files/Bloodmoon.bsa
[21:20:57.817 I] Adding data directory /usr/share/games/openmw/resources/vfs
[21:20:57.817 I] Adding data directory /usr/share/games/openmw/resources/vfs-mw
[21:20:57.817 I] Adding data directory /home/cl3v3r/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Morrowind/Data Files
[21:20:58.432 I] Preferred locales: gmst en
[21:20:58.432 I] Initializing LuaUtil::LuaState with profiler
[21:20:58.436 I] Lua version: Lua 5.1.4 (LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)
[21:20:58.450 I] Loading font file MysticCards.omwfont
[21:20:58.478 I] Loading font file DemonicLetters.omwfont
[21:20:58.492 I] Loading font file DejaVuLGCSansMono.omwfont
[21:20:58.614 I] Initializing OpenAL...
[21:20:58.682 I] Opened "Built-in Audio Headphones + Speakers"
[21:20:58.682 I]   ALC Version: 1.1
[21:20:58.682 I]   ALC Extensions: ALC_ENUMERATE_ALL_EXT ALC_ENUMERATION_EXT ALC_EXT_CAPTURE ALC_EXT_DEDICATED ALC_EXT_disconnect ALC_EXT_EFX ALC_EXT_thread_local_context ALC_SOFT_device_clock ALC_SOFT_HRTF ALC_SOFT_loopback ALC_SOFT_output_limiter ALC_SOFT_pause_device
[21:20:58.704 I]   Vendor: OpenAL Community
[21:20:58.704 I]   Renderer: OpenAL Soft
[21:20:58.704 I]   Version: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.19.1
[21:20:58.704 I]   Extensions: AL_EXT_ALAW AL_EXT_BFORMAT AL_EXT_DOUBLE AL_EXT_EXPONENT_DISTANCE AL_EXT_FLOAT32 AL_EXT_IMA4 AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE AL_EXT_MCFORMATS AL_EXT_MULAW AL_EXT_MULAW_BFORMAT AL_EXT_MULAW_MCFORMATS AL_EXT_OFFSET AL_EXT_source_distance_model AL_EXT_SOURCE_RADIUS AL_EXT_STEREO_ANGLES AL_LOKI_quadriphonic AL_SOFT_block_alignment AL_SOFT_deferred_updates AL_SOFT_direct_channels AL_SOFTX_events AL_SOFTX_filter_gain_ex AL_SOFT_gain_clamp_ex AL_SOFT_loop_points AL_SOFTX_map_buffer AL_SOFT_MSADPCM AL_SOFT_source_latency AL_SOFT_source_length AL_SOFT_source_resampler AL_SOFT_source_spatialize
[21:20:58.704 W] Cannot detect audio device changes
[21:20:58.704 I] HRTF disabled
[21:20:58.704 I] Allocated 256 sound sources
[21:20:58.704 I] Low-pass filter supported
[21:20:58.705 I] EAX Reverb supported
[21:20:58.713 I] Enumerated output devices:
[21:20:58.713 I]   Built-in Audio Headphones + Speakers
[21:20:58.714 I] Enumerated HRTF names:
[21:20:58.714 I]   default-44100  default-48000  Built-In 44100hz  Built-In 48000hz
[21:20:58.758 I] Loading content file builtin.omwscripts
[21:20:58.759 I] Loading content file Morrowind.esm
[21:21:00.497 I] Loading content file Tribunal.esm
[21:21:00.703 I] Loading content file Bloodmoon.esm
[21:21:02.143 W] Bullet was not compiled with multithreading support, 1 async thread will be used
[21:21:02.144 I] Using 1 async physics threads
[21:21:02.147 I] Using /home/cl3v3r/.local/share/openmw/navmesh.db to store navigation mesh cache
[21:21:02.174 V] Using idle priority for thread=140288041408064
[21:21:02.190 I] Reserving texture unit for opaque depth texture: 31
[21:21:02.190 V] Disabling Multiview (disabled by config)
[21:21:02.255 I] Reserving texture unit for sky RTT: 30
[21:21:02.270 V] Language file "l10n/Interface/gmst.yaml" is enabled
[21:21:02.271 V] Language file "l10n/Interface/en.yaml" is enabled
[21:21:02.560 V] Language file "l10n/OMWEngine/gmst.yaml" is enabled
[21:21:02.566 V] Language file "l10n/OMWEngine/en.yaml" is enabled
[21:21:02.784 V] Language file "l10n/OMWShaders/en.yaml" is enabled
[21:21:02.856 V] Lua scripts configuration (12 scripts):
[21:21:02.856 V] #0 PLAYER : scripts/omw/mwui/init.lua
[21:21:02.856 V] #1 GLOBAL : scripts/omw/settings/global.lua
[21:21:02.856 V] #2 PLAYER : scripts/omw/settings/player.lua
[21:21:02.856 V] #3 GLOBAL : scripts/omw/activationhandlers.lua
[21:21:02.856 V] #4 GLOBAL : scripts/omw/cellhandlers.lua
[21:21:02.857 V] #5 PLAYER : scripts/omw/mechanics/playercontroller.lua
[21:21:02.857 V] #6 PLAYER : scripts/omw/playercontrols.lua
[21:21:02.857 V] #7 PLAYER : scripts/omw/camera/camera.lua
[21:21:02.857 V] #8 NPC CREATURE : scripts/omw/ai.lua
[21:21:02.857 V] #9 PLAYER : scripts/omw/console/player.lua
[21:21:02.857 V] #10 GLOBAL : scripts/omw/console/global.lua
[21:21:02.857 V] #11 CUSTOM : scripts/omw/console/local.lua
[21:21:02.880 I] Starting a new game
[21:21:02.901 V] Language file "l10n/OMWControls/en.yaml" is enabled
[21:21:02.908 V] Language file "l10n/OMWCamera/en.yaml" is enabled
[21:21:02.973 I] Changing to interior
[21:21:02.974 I] Loading cell Seyda Neen, Arrille's Tradehouse

Lastly, since I installed Version 48 via Synaptic Package Manager - why does my CFG log say Version 49?

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[21:20:57.265 I] OpenMW version 0.49.0

(Launcher does as well)
Very confusing and from the Repo?!?

[FXN55]

I don't mean to derail your post but you downloaded v0.48 via Synaptic? I'm using another package manager, Muon. I installed Synaptic to check and they both still have v0.45! Weak. Are you using a custom repo within Synaptic? Or maybe that's exclusive to the Linux Mint distro. You did say you were on Mint, correct?

Edit
Disregard. I just spotted the v0.48 release topic! With a link to downloads. I'll post this as a helpful hint to anyone on Ubuntu based OS's: Go directly to the Launchpad PPA. It has the new release. Ubuntu's offerings are v0.45 for focal (20.04LTS) and v0.47 for jammy (22.04LTS), kinetic (22.10), lunar (23.04) and mantic, whatever that is.

[Cl3v3rP0tat0]

Yes, I added the main PPA - but decided against the daily - it's not conducive to a smooth playthrough imo - better stick with released 48. I finally completed my mod build - been testing it today - almost panicked when I load my test char into Raven Rock and it was missing! LOL

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PPA description

Baked daily from the Master git branch.

The daily builds require libraries from ppa:openmw/openmw to run.

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openmw/openmw
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openmw openmw-launcher
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openmw/openmw-daily
sudo apt-get update

Please refer the install instructions in ppa:openmw/openmw:
https://launchpad.net/~openmw/+archive/ubuntu/openmw/

[FXN55]

Thanks, mate.