Can't start a new character

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

shot in the dark... Check your addons for being active again after you've closed adn re-opened the game. If somehow the setting change isn't taking effect as it should (a file permission issue, for instance) this could cause them to just lock into an active status.

[Ephialtis]

I checked, and they were listed as inactive. Just to make sure, I deleted them from my add-ons folder -- it didn't make a difference, I'm afraid.

Clicking for a new character repeatedly, I've managed to see enough of the flash-past pop-up to see that it's not a Lua error message, but I can't manage to see more than that.

[HousePet]

Do the flush log thing and repost the log?

Repeatedly hit new game before posting the log if possible.

[Ephialtis]

The new log is here.

[HousePet]

No boot module?

Check in C:\Program Files\t-engine4-windows-1.4.6-nomusic\game\modules for a boot-te4-1.4.6.team.
Does it exist?

Edit: Wait, ignore that.

[Ephialtis]

Yes, it's there all right, though it's boot-te4-1.4.6-nomusic.team of course.

[HousePet]

Can't see anything helpful, but it seems to be failing to reboot from the main menu into the game module.

[Ephialtis]

Well, I must admit that I've been catching up on other things that I should be doing -- so being unable to play isn't a complete disaster...

[HousePet]

Snap out of it! You are going crazy!

[Ephialtis]

... I should still like to be able to play ToME again, though...

[Ephialtis]

...but perhaps that's a vain hope...

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Darkgod asks if this happens with embers either turned off (or removed from folder)

[Ephialtis]

I tried turning it off, with no effect; I'll try removing it, thanks.

[later]
Bingo! Changing the file suffix to .temp meant that I could create a new character. Odd, because I'd played quite a few characters with Embers enabled, and had a winner, before things started to go wrong.

[later still]
And now, odder still... I tried adding back a few add-ons that I've used for a long time -- and the problem reappeared. I deactivated each add-on in turn, but it was no help. So I deleted the add-ons -- and it still made no difference. I again can't create a new character, even with Embers removed.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Right. Darkgod would probably like to speak with you directly for some live debugging. Can you drop by the IRC channel and try to catch him active? This could be a fairly major bug.

If you don't have an IRC client, a weblink is here http://mibbit.com/#tome@irc.rizon.net

[Ephialtis]

I'll try, thanks -- probably in a day or two, as I'm about to start my heaviest teaching day, with little free time for important things like this.