SubStage Crashes Immediately on Startup

Question

I have just installed subSonic 2.2 on an XP Sp3 VM .NET Framework 3.5 and when I try to launch the SubStage exe it crashes immediately. Any ideas?

Thought I'd add I am running the VM inside VMWare on Mac OSX.

Answer 1

I've got the same problem. It crashes in Windows Vista 64-bit and Windows 7 64-bit. No idea how it can be fixed...

Answer 2

I've experienced this on my Vista machine, running the application as administrator allowed it to work for me.

Answer 3

I realized that what was crashing, was the pre-compiled exe that came in the src download. On a whim, I built the project locally and tried running the output from the local build - sweet! Works like a charm.

Don't know why the original build didn't work, but building it locally got me up and running. S

Answer 4

It was a system.io exception, so i wondered if there was a path problem. I renamed ..\SubSonic 2.2\SubStage\MasterStore.xml to MasterStore.xml.old, then ran SubStage, and it worked. It regenerated MasterStore.xml.

Answer 5

I also renamed ..\SubSonic 2.2\SubStage\MasterStore.xml to MasterStore.xml.old, then ran SubStage, and it worked.

Answer 6

Renaming MasterStore.xml and running as Administrator solves this for me.