Minecraft launcher from store (and webdownload) is broken..
I had the neighbours kid come over with his Laptop to get help with Minecraft launcher updated yesterday and not working anymore.
Testing a few ordinary things, Java update, Win updates, drivers, etc
Nothing worked!
Figured I test update my own Minecraft launcher!? And gues what? It also gracefully craches without launching!!!
Tried stopping every app/service that could conflict. No Go!
Can you please fix the launcher?
Guess at the moment 200.000+ kids in norway are wondering why the launcher update totally messed up their gaming weekend.
Eventlog/Application Gives some clues:
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 12.11.2021 23:08:41
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: MyGamingComputer
Description:
Faulting application name: Minecraft.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x618b0357
Faulting module name: ucrtbase.dll, version: 10.0.19041.789, time stamp: 0x2bd748bf
Exception code: 0xc0000409
Fault offset: 0x0000000000071208
Faulting process ID: 0x1220
Faulting application start time: 0x01d7d811d9d82cb8
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.4297127D64EC6_1.0.104.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Minecraft.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll
Report ID: a08673c9-46bf-4eed-9f6b-4d4594da8c41
Faulting package full name: Microsoft.4297127D64EC6_1.0.104.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Faulting package-relative application ID: Minecraft
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-11-12T22:08:41.5049507Z" />
<EventRecordID>53681</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>MyGamingComputer</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Minecraft.exe</Data>
<Data>0.0.0.0</Data>
<Data>618b0357</Data>
<Data>ucrtbase.dll</Data>
<Data>10.0.19041.789</Data>
<Data>2bd748bf</Data>
<Data>c0000409</Data>
<Data>0000000000071208</Data>
<Data>1220</Data>
<Data>01d7d811d9d82cb8</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.4297127D64EC6_1.0.104.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Minecraft.exe</Data>
<Data>C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll</Data>
<Data>a08673c9-46bf-4eed-9f6b-4d4594da8c41</Data>
<Data>Microsoft.4297127D64EC6_1.0.104.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe</Data>
<Data>Minecraft</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
The Minecraft.exe file in "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.4297127D64EC6_1.0.104.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe"
is somewhat messed up.
It's missing all normal file properties.
Looks like the MicrosoftStore is distributing a faulty Minecraft.exe file, or that the Store Download and Windows is not able to complete saving the file to disk?
Mojang/MS-Store needs to fix this 2021-11-10 update.
Version="1.0.104.0" is the version listed in MicrosoftGame.Config
"MSStoreDistribution" not verifying when distributing to regional MSAzureDatacenters?
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Running vanilla Java:
java --version
java 17.0.1 2021-10-19 LTS
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 17.0.1+12-LTS-39)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0.1+12-LTS-39, mixed mode, sharing)
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Checked my userfolder, and Minecraft never gets installed properly.
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft are not created when running launcher. (hence no further logs there either)
%temp%\MineCraftlauncher is also empty.
Windows Error reporting also kicks up an Info event in EventViewer, and creates a log.
Added Report.wer to this case.
Updates OS to 21H1 (still same result)
WER creates a log and windows creates an error log.
(stack buffer overflow)