[0.18.14] "Error while parsing __base__/campaigns/beta/description.json not found" when saving

[Omnifarious]

This bug has shown up for other people in previous versions, but it appears to be back:

Whenever I save, I get this error message before the save process starts, and after it completes:

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  28.468 Error Util.cpp:83: Error while parsing __base__/campaigns/beta/description.json:
File __base__/campaigns/beta/description.json not found (No such file or directory)

This happens with or without mods, and even with a new game with no mods started from scratch in a fresh install. But, it only happens in the steam version of my game, not in the version I downloaded from your website.

But, in the logs where I have mods, it seems to happen at the end of the process in which it appears that the code for mods is being hashed, and my guess is that you're doing that so that you can detect changes to mods when the game is reloaded. Here is an example with mods:

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  58.144 Checksum for script __RTG__/control.lua: 2600863799
  58.147 Checksum for script __Tapeline__/control.lua: 3981632040
  58.151 Checksum for script __Todo-List__/control.lua: 1434033354
  58.152 Checksum for script __VehicleSnap__/control.lua: 1248096782
  58.154 Checksum for script __WhistleStopFactories__/control.lua: 2812090223
  58.160 Checksum for script __PickerAtheneum__/control.lua: 1699538615
  58.162 Checksum for script __VehicleWagon2__/control.lua: 3788627571
  58.169 Checksum for script __PickerDollies__/control.lua: 2603538091
  58.177 Checksum for script __PickerPipeTools__/control.lua: 1283573363
  58.183 Script @__BlueprintExtensions__/modules/landfill.lua:200: Destroying previous cached prototype information
  58.232 Script @__WhistleStopFactories__/control.lua:52: Whistle Stop recipe check starts...
  58.244 Script @__WhistleStopFactories__/control.lua:148: Whistle Stop recipe check complete.  No issues found.
  61.282 Error Util.cpp:83: Error while parsing __base__/campaigns/beta/description.json:
File __base__/campaigns/beta/description.json not found (No such file or directory)

[Loewchen]

Post the complete log please.

[Omnifarious]

Post the complete log please.

This is lightly anonymized. If needed, I can post a similar log from an attempt to create, then save a brand-new modless game. I was using the non-Steam version until about 0.18.12. This error has been present since then. It wasn't present in the Steam version for any later 0.17.x version. Lastly, the game does appear to successfully save. Just these dialog boxes come up to worry and annoy me.

I've tried uninstalling the Steam version and re-installing it again, twice...

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   0.000 2020-03-18 22:40:15; Factorio 0.18.14 (build 50388, linux64, steam)
   0.000 Operating system: Linux
   0.000 Program arguments: "/my_home_directory/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin/x64/factorio" 
   0.000 Read data path: /my_home_directory/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.000 Write data path: /my_home_directory/.factorio [2588799/3145728MB]
   0.000 Binaries path: /my_home_directory/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.006 System info: [CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor, 16 cores, RAM: 64328 MB]
   0.006 Environment: DISPLAY=:1 WAYLAND_DISPLAY=<unset> DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME __GL_FSAA_MODE=<unset> __GL_LOG_MAX_ANISO=<unset> __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=<unset> __GL_SORT_FBCONFIGS=<unset> __GL_YIELD=<unset>
   0.006 Display options: [FullScreen: 1] [VSync: 1] [UIScale: custom (125.5%)] [Native DPI: 1] [Screen: 255] [Special: lmw] [Lang: en]
   0.110 Available displays: 1
   0.110  [0]: BenQ EL2870U 28" - {[0,0], 3840x2160, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGB888, 60Hz}
   0.176 Initialised OpenGL:[0] Radeon RX Vega (VEGA10, DRM 3.36.0, 5.5.7-200.fc31.x86_64, LLVM 9.0.0); driver: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 19.2.8
   0.177   [Extensions] s3tc:yes; KHR_debug:yes; ARB_clear_texture:yes, ARB_copy_image:yes
   0.177   [Version] 4.5
   0.177 Graphics settings preset: very-high
   0.177   Dedicated video memory size 8192 MB
   0.196 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: high] [Video memory usage: all] [Light scale: 39.5749%] [DXT: high-quality] [Color: 32bit]
   0.196                   [Max threads (load/render): 32/8] [Max texture size: 0] [Tex.Stream.: 0] [Rotation quality: normal] [Other: STDC] [B:0,C:0,S:100]
   0.380 Info ModManager.cpp:245: Found duplicate mod Mining_Drones, using higher version (0.3.14 > 0.3.12).
   0.388 Info ModManager.cpp:245: Found duplicate mod Pre0-17-60Oil, using higher version (0.1.2 > 0.1.1).
   0.424 Loading mod settings train-pubsub 0.6.11 (settings.lua)
   0.424 Loading mod settings AutoDeconstruct 0.1.16 (settings.lua)
   0.424 Loading mod settings Automatic_Train_Painter 0.3.6 (settings.lua)
   0.424 Loading mod settings BlueprintExtensions 0.5.0 (settings.lua)
   0.424 Loading mod settings Concretexture 1.1.5 (settings.lua)
   0.425 Loading mod settings even-distribution 0.3.16 (settings.lua)
   0.425 Loading mod settings Factorissimo2 2.4.1 (settings.lua)
   0.425 Loading mod settings Fill4Me 0.9.2 (settings.lua)
   0.425 Loading mod settings laserlines 0.2.0 (settings.lua)
   0.425 Loading mod settings miniloader 1.10.7 (settings.lua)
   0.425 Loading mod settings MushroomCloud 1.0.14 (settings.lua)
   0.426 Loading mod settings NewGamePlus 4.0.0 (settings.lua)
   0.426 Loading mod settings Pre0-17-60Oil 0.1.2 (settings.lua)
   0.426 Loading mod settings quickbarimportexport 0.18.4 (settings.lua)
   0.426 Loading mod settings RealisticReactorGlow 1.18.7 (settings.lua)
   0.426 Loading mod settings RITEG 0.3.0 (settings.lua)
   0.427 Loading mod settings Tapeline 1.0.3 (settings.lua)
   0.427 Loading mod settings Todo-List 18.0.1 (settings.lua)
   0.427 Loading mod settings VehicleSnap 1.18.0 (settings.lua)
   0.427 Loading mod settings WhistleStopFactories 0.3.1 (settings.lua)
   0.428 Loading mod settings PickerAtheneum 1.2.0 (settings.lua)
   0.428 Loading mod settings VehicleWagon2 2.18.2 (settings.lua)
   0.428 Loading mod settings PickerDollies 1.1.1 (settings.lua)
   0.429 Loading mod settings PickerPipeTools 1.1.0 (settings.lua)
   0.431 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   0.522 Loading mod base 0.18.14 (data.lua)
   0.764 Loading mod EvoGUI 0.4.501 (data.lua)
   0.875 Loading mod train-pubsub 0.6.11 (data.lua)
   0.991 Loading mod assault-rifle 1.0.3 (data.lua)
   1.102 Loading mod Automatic_Train_Painter 0.3.6 (data.lua)
   1.212 Loading mod beautiful_bridge_railway 0.18.1 (data.lua)
   1.337 Loading mod BlueprintExtensions 0.5.0 (data.lua)
   1.448 Loading mod bullet-trails 0.5.1 (data.lua)
   1.556 Loading mod Concretexture 1.1.5 (data.lua)
   1.666 Loading mod ConcurrentTrainRestriction 0.2.8 (data.lua)
   1.776 Loading mod Construction_Drones 0.4.6 (data.lua)
   1.888 Loading mod even-distribution 0.3.16 (data.lua)
   1.999 Loading mod Factorissimo2 2.4.1 (data.lua)
   2.155 Loading mod Fill4Me 0.9.2 (data.lua)
   2.302 Loading mod JKIL-CarLight 0.3.0 (data.lua)
   2.449 Loading mod laserlines 0.2.0 (data.lua)
   2.595 Loading mod MaxRateCalculator 3.2.32 (data.lua)
   2.743 Loading mod miniloader 1.10.7 (data.lua)
   2.899 Loading mod NewGamePlus 4.0.0 (data.lua)
   3.048 Loading mod packing-tape 18.3.0 (data.lua)
   3.197 Loading mod Pre0-17-60Oil 0.1.2 (data.lua)
   3.349 Loading mod ProgressiveRunning 1.18.0 (data.lua)
   3.498 Loading mod quickbarimportexport 0.18.4 (data.lua)
   3.648 Loading mod RealisticReactorGlow 1.18.7 (data.lua)
   3.799 Loading mod RITEG 0.3.0 (data.lua)
   3.950 Loading mod RTG 0.5.1 (data.lua)
   4.100 Loading mod Tapeline 1.0.3 (data.lua)
   4.248 Loading mod Todo-List 18.0.1 (data.lua)
   4.396 Loading mod VehicleSnap 1.18.0 (data.lua)
   4.544 Loading mod WhistleStopFactories 0.3.1 (data.lua)
   4.696 Loading mod PickerAtheneum 1.2.0 (data.lua)
   4.850 Loading mod VehicleWagon2 2.18.2 (data.lua)
   5.000 Loading mod PickerDollies 1.1.1 (data.lua)
   5.156 Loading mod PickerPipeTools 1.1.0 (data.lua)
   5.314 Loading mod base 0.18.14 (data-updates.lua)
   5.466 Loading mod CleanBatteryIcon 0.0.8 (data-updates.lua)
   5.617 Loading mod beautiful_bridge_railway 0.18.1 (data-updates.lua)
   5.767 Loading mod bullet-trails 0.5.1 (data-updates.lua)
   5.917 Loading mod LD_AutoCircuit 0.3.0 (data-updates.lua)
   6.068 Loading mod miniloader 1.10.7 (data-updates.lua)
   6.219 Loading mod MushroomCloud 1.0.14 (data-updates.lua)
   6.370 Loading mod packing-tape 18.3.0 (data-updates.lua)
   6.522 Loading mod RTG 0.5.1 (data-updates.lua)
   6.692 Loading mod Automatic_Train_Painter 0.3.6 (data-final-fixes.lua)
   6.829 Loading mod Construction_Drones 0.4.6 (data-final-fixes.lua)
   6.984 Loading mod even-distribution 0.3.16 (data-final-fixes.lua)
   7.136 Loading mod RITEG 0.3.0 (data-final-fixes.lua)
   7.150 Script @__RITEG__/data-final-fixes.lua:16: adding lost items and fluids
   7.288 Loading mod WhistleStopFactories 0.3.1 (data-final-fixes.lua)
   7.456 Loading mod PickerAtheneum 1.2.0 (data-final-fixes.lua)
   7.610 Loading mod PickerPipeTools 1.1.0 (data-final-fixes.lua)
   7.783 Checksum for core: 2662968709
   7.783 Checksum of base: 119980786
   7.783 Checksum of CleanBatteryIcon: 2115890296
   7.783 Checksum of EvoGUI: 3279161307
   7.783 Checksum of train-pubsub: 3326615922
   7.783 Checksum of assault-rifle: 726225411
   7.783 Checksum of AutoDeconstruct: 934032342
   7.783 Checksum of Automatic_Train_Painter: 954947820
   7.783 Checksum of beautiful_bridge_railway: 2660707156
   7.783 Checksum of BlueprintExtensions: 708079482
   7.783 Checksum of bullet-trails: 3671570151
   7.783 Checksum of Concretexture: 3096459172
   7.783 Checksum of ConcurrentTrainRestriction: 3470600372
   7.783 Checksum of Construction_Drones: 695228364
   7.783 Checksum of even-distribution: 2850227830
   7.783 Checksum of Factorissimo2: 449581442
   7.783 Checksum of Fill4Me: 2117421323
   7.783 Checksum of JKIL-CarLight: 3532425124
   7.783 Checksum of laserlines: 172064009
   7.783 Checksum of LD_AutoCircuit: 1828807871
   7.783 Checksum of MaxRateCalculator: 3627249033
   7.783 Checksum of miniloader: 1409741681
   7.783 Checksum of MushroomCloud: 1795900981
   7.783 Checksum of NewGamePlus: 327340039
   7.783 Checksum of packing-tape: 2885858447
   7.783 Checksum of Pre0-17-60Oil: 3745602278
   7.783 Checksum of ProgressiveRunning: 1060760897
   7.783 Checksum of quickbarimportexport: 3486828205
   7.783 Checksum of RealisticReactorGlow: 504105362
   7.783 Checksum of RITEG: 83134079
   7.783 Checksum of Robot256Lib: 0
   7.783 Checksum of romulinhosresearchqueuealwaystrue: 0
   7.783 Checksum of RTG: 1834025065
   7.783 Checksum of stdlib: 0
   7.783 Checksum of Tapeline: 2927963731
   7.783 Checksum of Todo-List: 3182550957
   7.783 Checksum of VehicleSnap: 3082759310
   7.783 Checksum of WhistleStopFactories: 3442302971
   7.783 Checksum of PickerAtheneum: 3797217255
   7.783 Checksum of VehicleWagon2: 1140376477
   7.783 Checksum of PickerDollies: 3733383078
   7.783 Checksum of PickerPipeTools: 2589619767
   7.981 Prototype list checksum: 4124083842
   8.019 Loading sounds...
   8.063 Info PlayerData.cpp:70: Local player-data.json unavailable
   8.063 Info PlayerData.cpp:73: Cloud player-data.json available, timestamp 1584586134
   8.167 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
   8.188 Created atlas bitmap 16384x16380 [none]
   8.191 Created atlas bitmap 16384x14260 [none]
   8.191 Created atlas bitmap 8192x3736 [decal]
   8.192 Created atlas bitmap 16384x5664 [low-object]
   8.192 Created atlas bitmap 8192x3520 [mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
   8.193 Created atlas bitmap 16384x6032 [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
   8.193 Created atlas bitmap 4096x2848 [terrain-effect-map, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
   8.193 Created atlas bitmap 4096x1600 [smoke, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification]
   8.193 Created atlas bitmap 4096x3088 [mipmap]
   8.194 Created atlas bitmap 8192x2032 [icon, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
   8.194 Created atlas bitmap 2048x240 [icon-background, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level, ]
   8.194 Created atlas bitmap 4096x2652 [alpha-mask]
   8.196 Created atlas bitmap 16384x15544 [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
   8.197 Created atlas bitmap 8192x2352 [shadow, mipmap, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
   8.205 Texture processor created (2048). GPU accelerated compression Supported: yes, Enabled: yes/yes. Test passed. YCoCgDXT PSNR: 35.83, BC3 PSNR: 33.82
   8.714 Parallel Sprite Loader initialized (threads: 15)
   9.099 Warning! Sprite at {0,0; 32x32} from __VehicleWagon2__/graphics/vehicle-wagon-icon.png is defined with 4 mipmap levels, but level 1 is expected to be at {32,0; 16x16} which is out of bounds of the source image.
   9.100 Warning! Sprite at {0,0; 32x32} from __WhistleStopFactories__/graphics/icons/big-assembly.png is defined with 4 mipmap levels, but level 1 is expected to be at {32,0; 16x16} which is out of bounds of the source image.
   9.100 Warning! Sprite at {0,0; 32x32} from __WhistleStopFactories__/graphics/icons/big-furnace.png is defined with 4 mipmap levels, but level 1 is expected to be at {32,0; 16x16} which is out of bounds of the source image.
  16.435 Sprites loaded
  16.460 Generated mipmaps (4) for atlas [3] of size 16384x5664   
  16.463 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [4] of size 8192x3520   
  16.472 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [5] of size 16384x6032   
  16.473 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [6] of size 4096x2848   
  16.474 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [7] of size 4096x1600   
  16.499 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [8] of size 4096x3088   
  16.501 Generated mipmaps (5) for atlas [9] of size 8192x2032   
  16.504 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [13] of size 8192x2352   
  16.510 Custom mipmaps uploaded.
  16.596 Custom inputs active: 61
  16.668 Factorio initialised
  57.734 Loading level.dat: 1340423 bytes.
  57.734 Info Scenario.cpp:187: Map version 0.18.14-1
  58.093 Checksum for script /my_home_directory/.factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 3825597572
  58.095 Checksum for script __EvoGUI__/control.lua: 759905060
  58.099 Checksum for script __train-pubsub__/control.lua: 3271302328
  58.100 Checksum for script __AutoDeconstruct__/control.lua: 810558656
  58.107 Checksum for script __Automatic_Train_Painter__/control.lua: 788011412
  58.108 Checksum for script __beautiful_bridge_railway__/control.lua: 155879108
  58.111 Checksum for script __BlueprintExtensions__/control.lua: 1801183637
  58.112 Checksum for script __ConcurrentTrainRestriction__/control.lua: 510384917
  58.116 Checksum for script __Construction_Drones__/control.lua: 3061398320
  58.117 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Initializing framework... DEBUG = false
  58.117 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Registering custom scripts...
  58.117 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Script: metatables
  58.117 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Script: util
  58.117 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Script: helpers
  58.118 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Script: setup
  58.118 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Script: visuals
  58.118 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Script: drag
  58.118 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Script: cleanup
  58.118 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Registering default event handlers...
  58.119 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Registering custom inputs...
  58.119 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Input: inventory-cleanup   event: on_inventory_cleanup
  58.119 Script @__even-distribution__/framework.lua:72: 0 [ED] Successfully initialized
  58.119 Checksum for script __even-distribution__/control.lua: 500292586
  58.124 Checksum for script __Factorissimo2__/control.lua: 2290365877
  58.128 Checksum for script __Fill4Me__/control.lua: 2078693839
  58.129 Checksum for script __laserlines__/control.lua: 3427091822
  58.130 Checksum for script __LD_AutoCircuit__/control.lua: 3911581078
  58.132 Checksum for script __MaxRateCalculator__/control.lua: 2592513992
  58.135 Checksum for script __miniloader__/control.lua: 4053635237
  58.136 Checksum for script __MushroomCloud__/control.lua: 610480836
  58.138 Checksum for script __NewGamePlus__/control.lua: 2424191511
  58.139 Checksum for script __packing-tape__/control.lua: 922566274
  58.141 Checksum for script __ProgressiveRunning__/control.lua: 3204076715
  58.142 Checksum for script __quickbarimportexport__/control.lua: 958074162
  58.142 Checksum for script __RITEG__/control.lua: 3445124361
  58.143 Checksum for script __romulinhosresearchqueuealwaystrue__/control.lua: 3742812395
  58.144 Checksum for script __RTG__/control.lua: 2600863799
  58.147 Checksum for script __Tapeline__/control.lua: 3981632040
  58.151 Checksum for script __Todo-List__/control.lua: 1434033354
  58.152 Checksum for script __VehicleSnap__/control.lua: 1248096782
  58.154 Checksum for script __WhistleStopFactories__/control.lua: 2812090223
  58.160 Checksum for script __PickerAtheneum__/control.lua: 1699538615
  58.162 Checksum for script __VehicleWagon2__/control.lua: 3788627571
  58.169 Checksum for script __PickerDollies__/control.lua: 2603538091
  58.177 Checksum for script __PickerPipeTools__/control.lua: 1283573363
  58.183 Script @__BlueprintExtensions__/modules/landfill.lua:200: Destroying previous cached prototype information
  58.232 Script @__WhistleStopFactories__/control.lua:52: Whistle Stop recipe check starts...
  58.244 Script @__WhistleStopFactories__/control.lua:148: Whistle Stop recipe check complete.  No issues found.
  61.282 Error Util.cpp:83: Error while parsing __base__/campaigns/beta/description.json:
File __base__/campaigns/beta/description.json not found (No such file or directory)
 188.672 Quitting: user-quit.
 189.044 Steam API shutdown.
 189.047 Goodbye

[Omnifarious]

I checked to see if it was also a problem on my laptop, and it is. I wanted to make sure because I did some things that were a little weird with filesystems and things on my main desktop.

[Omnifarious]

I verified that this still occurs on 0.18.15.

[Omnifarious]

I have also verified that this happens with 0.18.16.

[Omnifarious]

Verified still there for 0.18.17

[Omnifarious]

Verified for 0.18.18

[Lownote18]

I am receiving this error as well, ever since version 0.18.x

factorio-current.log

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[Omnifarious]

This no longer happens in 0.18.19

[posila]

Thanks for the report.
Fixed: 83738