Game closes while caching certain songs

[low granite]

The game suddenly closes when caching certain songs. The crash log is empty, and the main log isn't written every time. When the main log is written, it just stops after a specific Song::LoadFromSongDir. For a little while, it was stopping on a different song each time, but now it's consistently crashing on a specific song.

I'm on Ubuntu 24.04. This affects versions 2024.12.29 and 2025.03.16, but not 2024.12.09, suggesting the breaking change was made in mid-December.

Caching and playing the song works fine on 2024.12.09. If I then open 2025.03.16, the game starts fine (due to the song already being cached), but crashes when playing the specific song. No crash log, and the main log ends immediately after Loading screen: "ScreenLoadGameplayElements".

Here's the simfile.

[vital estuary]

Are you 100% it's this file? Have you made a isolated instance with only that file available and it crashes?

[low granite]

ok i was wrong. the banner image is causing the crash

i copied the song folder to a clean install of 2025.03.16 and tried each individual file inside it. it's this png file that's crashing the game:

the background and jacket work fine

re-encoding the png makes it work fine

modifying a single byte of the png makes it work fine

[humble light]

oh?

[low granite]

1 byte difference:

the byte in question was part of the "physical size" value, which is irrelevant for digital use, and the image data is identical

actually, changing the single byte didn't make a difference. there's just a small chance for the weird file to load successfully.

i am going to go insane

this inconsistency really makes it seem like a hardware failure, but it's doing the same thing on a different drive now

[vital estuary]

uh, maybe something to do with the banner caching

@shy mist Didn't you make a new banner cache thing? Any idea what could be?

[shy mist]

no