Mash has worked fine on my Vista system for several years. A couple of weeks ago it stopped working, there's a brief flash of an error window, then nothing. I reinstalled Mash, python, and python ansi ...didn't help. Was advised to try standalone Mash; after I "OK" the "select Morrowind location" window in that there's a brief popup window with a scrolling list, but it disappears before I can read anything, and nothing else happens.

Installed Wrye_Mash_84-27588 (it's newer than the version I'd been using), set it to run from python2.4, and get the same results. This is the bugdump (seems I have an "insecure string pickle", hopefully someone can help secure it):


L:\Morrowind\Mopy>c:\python24\python.exe mash.py 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mash.py", line 19, in ?
app = masher.MashApp(stdOutCode)
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\wx-2.5.3-msw-ansi\wx\_core.py", line 5301,
in __init__
self._BootstrapApp()
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\wx-2.5.3-msw-ansi\wx\_core.py", line 4980,
in _BootstrapApp
return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
File "L:\Morrowind\Mopy\masher.py", line 3169, in OnInit
self.InitData()
File "L:\Morrowind\Mopy\masher.py", line 3229, in InitData
mosh.modInfos = mosh.ModInfos(os.path.join(mwDir,'Data Files'))
File "L:\Morrowind\Mopy\mosh.py", line 2984, in __init__
FileInfos.__init__(self,dir,factory)
File "L:\Morrowind\Mopy\mosh.py", line 2695, in __init__
self.table = Table(os.path.join(self.dir,'Mash','Table.pkl'))
File "L:\Morrowind\Mopy\mosh.py", line 340, in __init__
inData = http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1183250-mash-stopped-working/cPickle.load(ins)
ValueError: insecure string pickle

L:\Morrowind\Mopy>



BTW, someone suggested I try python2.5 (the Mash version I now have has shortcuts for 2.4 and 2.5). Just installed 2.5 and the ansi files. Same result, same bugdump. I now have Python 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6 installed. Mash still won't run.

Have you tried the mash standalone that doesn't require Python?

"Was advised to try standalone Mash; after I "OK" the "select Morrowind location" window in that there's a brief popup window with a scrolling list, but it disappears before I can read anything, and nothing else happens."

Try deleting Table.pkl

Oops, my apologies, my reading comprehension, or lack there of in this case, for the lose!

also, what Yacoby said....

There is no table.pkl (that I can find)

If it exists, it'll be in the "...\Data Files\Mash" folder. You might also want to check in any virtualization locations as well.

A thousand blessings, sir! I removed that file, clicked the Mash icon (admittedly with little hope), and Mash fired right up. (It was in the "data files\mash" location; which is good, I have no idea what a virtualization location is ...or where it would be located.)

In terms a low grade moron will understand, what is that table file? And could it have somehow become corrupted two weeks ago, causing my original Mash to stop working? (i.e. I could have deleted that back then and Mash would have worked again)

My thanks to all who helped here.

From the Mash readme (0.42 Doc Browser [7/3/2005]):And a quote from Wrye, http://www.yacoby.net/es/forum/12/2587081142016240.html:Probably worth running http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265.