Trying to recover my UI

[horse21]

So, something happened that has caused some issues. I'm not sure if it was running WoW in linux through wine, or installing the auctioneer mod.

When I log in, none of my RDX frames show up. The RDX main menu backdrop and button names display, but not the buttons. The floating RDX circle button also displays. When I /reloadui, the RDX main menu buttons come up, but none of my frames. The only error that comes up is when I mouseover something, something about 'attempt to index upvalue 'bkdtmp' (a nil value)' in GameTooltip.lua, though I assume the game tooltip wouldn't drop my UI.

It seems like all of the RDX main menu buttons work after I reload the UI. However, the only entries in the Repository Object Browser are:
WoWRDX
default
desktops
scripts

WoWRDX has almost nothing in it (Party_fset only)
default seems like it may have everything
desktops is empty
scripts is empty (though I believe it was before this happened anyhow)

So, all of the default themes, as well as my own package are no longer there. When I try and click on the 'UI->Themes' in the RDX main menu, the Themes dropdown does not show up.

What may have caused this? Most importantly, what file would my UI be located in, in case I need to reinstall? I hit the Backup Packages for my package a couple times, but I don't see anything in the Addons/RDX_recovery/RDX_recovery.lua file

Thanks for the help!

[Narinka]

Try to reinstall WoWRDX OOBE maybe or just make fresh install of RDX.
Your recovery file should be in SavedVariables folder (RDX_Recovery.lua), not in "Addons", but in \WTF\ etc..

[sigg]

This is the second time someone is posting this kind of problem.

RDX has a file system (or repository). it seems it is corrupted.

To repair your rdx, do this:
/rdx masterReset

Did you have a WoW crash ?
Or WoW didn't stop find ?
You said that you were playing under Linux ?

Can you provide the list of addons you were using ?

Do a regulaly backup of your repository, a file name RDX_filesystem.lua.
It should be somewhere under WTF\ folder.

[horse21]

I don't see the recovery, unfortunately... Does it get cleared out by something? Perhaps at that point part of the file system was already corrupt?

I switch back and forth between Linux (Ubuntu) and WIndows 7. I had more or less created the majority of my stuff in Windows, hadn't logged into Linux until this happened. Also, I had no other mods installed until this happened, until I installed the Auctioneer package.

I believe Auctioneer consists of:
Auc-Auctioneer
Auc:Filter:Basic
Auc:ScanData
Auc:Stat:Histogram
Auc:Stat:iLevel
Auc:Stat:Purchased Stats
Auc:Stat:Simple
Auc:Stat:Std Deviation
Auc:Util:FixAH
BeanCounter
Enchantrix
EnchantrixBarker
Informant
SlideBar
Stubby
Swatter

After that, I had the RDX and the RDX media package from the site

Everything was working well while as I had been playing in Windows for a while. The only mod I had installed was RDX. I started up my computer one day and decided to tinker around with Linux. I also knew I had a lot of things to put on the auction house, so I installed Auctioneer. Actually, I may have:

• loaded the game in Linux properly
• saw I had a lot to auction
• exited game
• installed auctioneer
• loaded game again
• RDX file system corrupted

That actually sounds like what happened. WoW did not crash, it didn't produce any big error or anything, just that tooltip one I mentioned, but it seems unrelated.

Looking at this, my guess is the filesystem got corrupted after I loaded/exited the game in Linux. Then the next time I logged into the game Things were screwy, but no errors or crashes.

[horse21]

strange, when i type '/rdx masterReset' I get an invalid command response, telling me correct commands.... one of them being '/rdx masterReset'

[sigg]

Ok moving from Linux to window has certainly break the file.
The Linux file do not use the same returnline caractere than a windows file ...

When you switch back to windows, the file was unreadable by windows...

Sorry.

About Master reset, you have a link available on the main menu. Button 4, Master Reset.

[horse21]

Thanks Sigg. Is there a way to make this os agnostic so switching around isn't a problem? I like being able to run WoW in Linux from my windows partition, keeps everything in one place. I assume using backups to transfer from a windows to linux installation of WoW would work, but that's a lot of hassle.

That button worked and I'm up and running again, though I was still unable to find record of my old work. On the plus side, I took more time to make my unit frames look nice this go around, haha. Out of the ashes!

Thanks again!

[Brainn]

as narinka said, the recovery-file should be in <wow folder>\wtf\account\<accountname>\savedvariables\

if it really is caused by corrupt encoding there are tools to fix that stuff, google should help you with that.