P3Dv5 - problem raised by engine or unspecified addon

[paxe]

Hi,

i recently came over this problem that was disussed a few years ago. whenever i start activities from the GSX-Menu i get the error: "The coatl scripting engine has encountered an unrecoverable error and will be restated. Please run Live-Update."
The errorlog says: problem raised by engine or unspecified addon
Of course i tried the live-update, as well as a new installation with the full p3d installer but without success.
The only thing i did before the problem came up was installing LFSB, but there were no errors regarding this.

As written in another thread (2018 i think) it happens at any airport with any airplane. There was a solution given that the FSX.cfg might miss some entries, but i´m using P3Dv5 and the prepar3d.cfg doesnt have those lines (even in backup from times when things went right).

Any Suggestions appreciated
Berthold

[virtuali]

The coatl scripting engine has encountered an unrecoverable error and will be restated. Please run Live-Update."

The message doesn't say just that. It also asks if you want to open the error log to see the error details, which is what you should have done, since the details are what we need to know about the problem.

Also, the default error log might not be detailed enough so, before the error, be sure you have Logging enabled in the Troubleshooting section of the GSX Settings Page. If you don't have it, check the box and Restart Couatl. Then reproduce the error and, when the error comes out, exit the sim and check this file:

%APPDATA%\Virtuali\Couatl.LOG

ZIP the file and Attach it to a post.

It's important you reply NO to the request to restart Couatl when asked because, if you allow to restart it, a new LOG will be created, overwriting the one with the information about the error which we need to check.

[paxe]

thank you, here you go:

[virtuali]

Your log shows something that should never happen, becasuse it's saying it cannot find a staircase variation which IS surely installed with the latest update.

With P3D, the FSX.CFG is not used, the add-on.xml is used instead but, the Live Update will of course updated it correctly to add the path of the extra liveries and install the extra liveries so, in normal circumstances, it's not possible to have the sim not being able to find the objects.

Check your add-on.xml file for the FSDT Addon Manager in the Documents\Prepar3d V5 Addons and see if it contains this lines:

  <AddOn.Component>
    <Category>SimObjects</Category>
    <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\Simobjects\PBR_P3D5</Path>
  </AddOn.Component>

[paxe]

Thats how the add-on.xml looks like:
the entry you specified is there

<SimBase.Document Type="AddOnXml" version="4,0" id="add-on">
  <AddOn.Name>FsDreamTeam Addon Manager</AddOn.Name>
  <AddOn.Description>FsDreamTeam Support software</AddOn.Description>
  <AddOn.Component>
    <Category>DLL</Category>
    <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\bglmanx65.dll</Path>
    <DLLType>PDK</DLLType>
  </AddOn.Component>
  <AddOn.Component>
    <Category>Scripts</Category>
    <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\Scripts</Path>
  </AddOn.Component>
  <AddOn.Component>
    <Category>Effects</Category>
    <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\Effects</Path>
  </AddOn.Component>
  <AddOn.Component>
    <Category>Sound</Category>
    <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\Sound</Path>
  </AddOn.Component>
  <AddOn.Component>
    <Category>SimObjects</Category>
    <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\Simobjects\Misc</Path>
  </AddOn.Component>
  <AddOn.Component>
    <Category>SimObjects</Category>
    <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\Simobjects\PBR</Path>
  </AddOn.Component>
  <AddOn.Component>
    <Category>SimObjects</Category>
    <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\Simobjects\PBR_P3D5</Path>
  </AddOn.Component>
  <AddOn.Component>
    <Category>EXE</Category>
    <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\couatl64\Couatl64_P3D.exe</Path>
  </AddOn.Component>
</SimBase.Document>

[virtuali]

Thats how the add-on.xml looks like

That's how is supposed to be. Is the add-on Enabled in the Options->Add-ons menu ?

Is the folder with the objects there ?

[paxe]

I finally found the solution!

Addon was activated, all folders present. But when checking a few other .cfg files i came across the add-ons.cfg in the p3d folder. And for some reason numerous addons were listed twice. One time correct under Documents\Prepar3d V5 Addons and another time under onedrive\Dokumente\Prepar3d V5 Addons.
After i deleted the entries containing onedrive it worked again.
However i have no clue what caused those entries...

Anyway, a big 'Thank You' for the support!