localconfig.vdf zod parsing issue

[gnarlymt]

Similar to the resolved issue raised by Patrickbenkoe.
`
162 | class ZodError extends Error {
163 | get errors() {
164 | return this.issues;
165 | }
166 | constructor(issues) {
167 | super();
^
ZodError: [
{
"code": "invalid_type",
"expected": "object",
"received": "undefined",
"path": [
"UserLocalConfigStore",
"Software",
"Valve",
"Steam",
"apps"
],
"message": "Required"
}
]
errors: [
{
"code": "invalid_type",
"expected": "object",
"received": "undefined",
"path": [
"UserLocalConfigStore",
"Software",
"Valve",
"Steam",
"apps"
],
"message": "Required"
}
]

  at new ZodError (/private/tmp/bunx-501-@toebeann/gib/node_modules/zod/lib/index.mjs:167:9)
  at error (/private/tmp/bunx-501-@toebeann/gib/node_modules/zod/lib/index.mjs:587:31)
  at parse (/private/tmp/bunx-501-@toebeann/gib/node_modules/zod/lib/index.mjs:663:15)

Bun v1.1.33 (macOS arm64)
`
It's strange as I managed to successfully run GIB for updating Subnautica, but it won't work for Subnautica Below Zero.
The process seems to be working. I can see the Bepinex files being copied to the same directory level as the App, but it doesn't seem to have impacted on Steam in the same way (no vanilla option, for example).

I've used the Subnautica Below Zero Bepinex as well as the latest GIT version, BepInEx_macos_x64_5.4.23.2

Thanks

[toebeann]

Firstly, apologies for taking so long to get back to you, and thank you for filing this report.

Couple questions:

1. Are both games Steam games? Is either a non-Steam game?
2. Do you have multiple Steam accounts on the same system?

If you do have multiple Steam accounts on the same computer, it is worth making sure you're signed into the one that you want to set up gib with prior to running gib.

It looks to be an issue parsing (and subsequently writing to) your localconfig.vdf file, which it does in an effort to set the launch options of a Steam game for you. It seems to be the case that the Steam account you had most recently used had a localconfig.vdf file that was a challenge for gib to parse. I suspect it's probably a casing issue or similar. If you're still facing the issue, if you're willing it could be useful for you to locate the relevant localconfig.vdf file(s) and share the "Software" portion of those files with me so that I can work out why parsing failed, otherwise it will be difficult for me to know if any changes I make will fix it for you without asking you to try again, which could lead to quite the lengthy back and forth. If so, you should be able to find the file(s) at:

~/Library/Application Support/Steam/userdata/<STEAM ACCOUNT ID>/config/localconfig.vdf

Feel free to copy them somewhere, open them in a text editor and check for (and censor) any sensitive data (for example, the entire "friends" section). In fact, the only part that is relevant to my needs is the "Software" section, which is typically right near the top. Anything outside of that section can be deleted from the copy before sharing. The section itself will have information about the games which have been installed from that account on your computer, so feel free to also trim it down to just Subnautica and BZ or something. The important thing is that I see what the keys are, whether the "apps" key exists at all within the "Software" -> "Valve" -> "Steam" section, and if so, what its casing is. This should help me to understand the cause of the issue.

If you have multiple Steam accounts on the same computer, it might be useful for you to send me the data requested from each account's localconfig.vdf file, again, feel free to trim them down to only the requested sections and feel free to remove any game IDs from the "apps" section that you'd rather not let strangers know about. I personally won't be interested in them anyway.

Without a true fix, the best I'll be able to offer is a fallback where if reading/writing the launch options fails for some reason, it will instead prompt you to set the launch options yourself, as it used to before I upgraded gib to handle this for you (and prevent users from doing so incorrectly). However, it would be better to fix the issue completely.

I have a feeling that in the long run I may need to rework how I handle parsing Steam's data files, as they seem to play "loosey goosey" with the casing of keys, and of course as a closed source, proprietary data format none of this is documented anywhere which presents a challenge to get things working correctly at all times, especially when I need to write data to those files.

[gnarlymt]

Hi Tobey,

Thank you for replying. Now it's my turn to apologise for a late reply.

1. Both are native steam games....although see below....things have changed.
2. Yes, I have 2 steam accounts. I have one, and I've set one up for my son.

However, I've only every tried running GIB from one of them, as we only have Subnautica (and Subnautica Below Zero) on my main Steam Account. Also note that I family management and sharing switched on. This is PIN protected.

My intention had been to mod BZ, but then my son asked me to try running some older mods against the legacy version of subnautica. At the time, I (stupidly) installed the legacy version over the working, modded 2.0 living large update. This led me to deleting all of the original mods and doing a manual install of Bepinex, as gib still didn't work for me.

I have to say, the manual install was rather easy. Your instructions were great. I know that gib has benefits, but I think you oversell the difficulty level of the manual process.

Subsequently, I have set up this modded legacy game as non-steam, imported it into steam and officially installed Subnautica 2.0 with mods. This means that I have the legacy and new versions available. I am able to run them in Crossover and natively.

However, I'm sure that our interest will return to BZ shortly, so I'm happy to help you bugfix gib for me.

Under ../Steam/userdata I have 2 accounts listed. One shows a directory with a 9-digit number, the other shows a directory under 0 (zero). The 0 only has one game listed, so I the one we want is the 9-digit one. Note that this is not the same as my 17-digit account id.

Ok, here's the software section from my localconfig.vdf file. Obviously there are few games there. You can easily see one of the subnauticas as there's a launch prompt showing.

"Software" { "Valve" { "Steam" { "Apps" { "400" { "LastPlayed" "1719841896" "Playtime" "14547" "PlaytimeDisconnected" "2601" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1718389836" "lastexit" "1718389840" } "BadgeData" "020000000806" } "410" { "LastPlayed" "1526927397" "Playtime" "51" } "620" { "LastPlayed" "1730663648" "Playtime" "57942" "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1630746891" "lastexit" "1630746893" } "BadgeData" "020000000804" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "PlaytimeDisconnected" "8418" } "220200" { "LastPlayed" "1736029034" "Playtime" "502" "220200_eula_0" "0" "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1736025008" "lastexit" "1736029034" } "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "BadgeData" "020000000808" } "230290" { "LastPlayed" "1736188392" "Playtime" "35614" "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1616272673" "lastexit" "1687469993" } "BadgeData" "020000000804" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "PlaytimeDisconnected" "7040" } "278360" { "LastPlayed" "1562876073" "Playtime" "60" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } } "280790" { "LastPlayed" "1728667547" "Playtime" "25176" "280790_eula_0" "0" "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1681599575" "lastexit" "1681599579" } "BadgeData" "020000000804" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "PlaytimeDisconnected" "121" } "572890" { "LastPlayed" "1730331100" "Playtime" "7121" "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1730330992" "lastexit" "1730331100" } "BadgeData" "020000000808" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "PlaytimeDisconnected" "524" } "653530" { "LastPlayed" "1660854272" "Playtime" "331" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1660850011" "lastexit" "1660854271" } "BadgeData" "020000000804" } "689400" { "LastPlayed" "1562832300" "Playtime" "35" } "885470" { "LastPlayed" "1731714948" "Playtime" "489" "885470_eula_0" "0" "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1731710513" "lastexit" "1731714948" } "BadgeData" "020000000808" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } } "1072390" { "LastPlayed" "1609172387" "Playtime" "307" } "866440" { "LastPlayed" "1704326295" "BadgeData" "020000000806" "Playtime" "123" } "365670" { "LastPlayed" "1719951282" "BadgeData" "020000000806" "Playtime" "12315" } "7" { "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } } "760" { "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" "quota_bytes" "20000000000" "quota_files" "50000" "used_bytes" "218822" "used_files" "2" } } "241100" { "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1737397313" "lastexit" "1737397407" } } "1089980" { "LastPlayed" "1728829574" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1686261117" "lastexit" "1686262760" } "BadgeData" "020000000805" "Playtime" "530" "PlaytimeDisconnected" "62" } "837470" { "LastPlayed" "1736901468" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1735745215" "lastexit" "1735749725" } "BadgeData" "020000000808" "Playtime" "52562" "Playtime2wks" "54" "PlaytimeDisconnected" "8652" } "2371090" { "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } } "70" { "LastPlayed" "1714749625" "Playtime" "4075" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } } "1390350" { "LastPlayed" "1712410501" "Playtime" "1735" "PlaytimeDisconnected" "2595" } "1332010" { "LastPlayed" "1704106101" "Playtime" "1261" "PlaytimeDisconnected" "1303" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "changesincloud" } } "1985690" { "LastPlayed" "1707259457" "Playtime" "151" "BadgeData" "020000000806" } "763030" { "LastPlayed" "1708103959" "Playtime" "210" "BadgeData" "020000000806" "PlaytimeDisconnected" "131" } "362380" { "LastPlayed" "1721805022" "Playtime" "1" } "601360" { "LastPlayed" "1722033240" "Playtime" "153" } "317400" { "LastPlayed" "1722342030" "Playtime" "1797" "PlaytimeDisconnected" "2883" } "1049410" { "LastPlayed" "1721895254" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "Playtime" "337" } "629" { "LastPlayed" "1720130947" "Playtime" "5897" } "1868140" { "LastPlayed" "1714749672" "Playtime" "1" } "317790" { "LastPlayed" "1719516408" "Playtime" "1103" } "317320" { "LastPlayed" "1730329354" "BadgeData" "020000000808" "Playtime" "52" } "200010" { "LastPlayed" "1721571200" "Playtime" "726" "PlaytimeDisconnected" "54" } "2936690" { "LastPlayed" "1722165307" "Playtime" "31" } "1240210" { "LastPlayed" "1722344140" "Playtime" "1489" "PlaytimeDisconnected" "1" } "1241700" { "LastPlayed" "1722828773" "Playtime" "102" } "1386790" { "LastPlayed" "1728668722" "Playtime" "12" } "2093150" { "LastPlayed" "1723050202" "Playtime" "21" } "2366980" { "LastPlayed" "1729114307" "Playtime" "358" "PlaytimeDisconnected" "83" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } } "2719070" { "LastPlayed" "1725188350" "Playtime" "36" "BadgeData" "020000000807" } "3022110" { "LastPlayed" "1729106998" "Playtime" "96" } "264710" { "LastPlayed" "1737657814" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1737657809" "lastexit" "1737657815" } "BadgeData" "020000000808" "Playtime2wks" "1708" "Playtime" "16402" "LaunchOptions" "\"/Volumes/Music/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Subnautica/run_bepinex.sh\" %command%" "PlaytimeDisconnected" "3" } "2331070" { "LastPlayed" "1737154241" "BadgeData" "020000000808" "Playtime" "173" "Playtime2wks" "10" } "220" { "LastPlayed" "1734795510" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1734795506" "lastexit" "1734795510" } "BadgeData" "020000000808" "Playtime" "1" } "848450" { "LastPlayed" "1736884891" "cloud" { "last_sync_state" "synchronized" } "autocloud" { "lastlaunch" "1736884666" "lastexit" "1736884891" } "BadgeData" "020000000808" "Playtime2wks" "1118" "Playtime" "2682" } } "LastPlayedTimesSyncTime" "1737587891" "PlayerLevel" "8" "SmallMode" "0" } } }

[gnarlymt]

A couple of extra points.
My second Steam/userdata folder Steam/userdata/0/ does not have a config folder and only contains this structure
~/Library/Application Support/Steam/userdata/0/230290/ac/WinMyDocuments/Universe Sandbox

The same game under 230290 appears under the other userdata number as well.

You will also note that I have multiple steam libraries set up. One is on my main SSD, one is mapped into a crossover bottle and one is on an external volume (/Volumes/Music/)

[toebeann]

but I think you oversell the difficulty level of the manual process.

This really depends on each user's competence with computers and their patience for reading a lot of text, both of which are dwindling lately it seems. I do think it's cumbersome and tedious, but it's definitely not all that bad for power users - provided they have a resource like the guide I typed up handy, which I'm thrilled you found useful! Unfortunately, BepInEx's own documentation isn't great for this and so people get confounded at the part where you need to tell John Apple that you would very much like to run the program, pretty please with a cherry on top

As for the info provided, yep, pretty sure I see the issue as a casing issue yet again... why is it so inconsistent, Valve??? Grrr

When I have some time I'll definitely come back and see about fixing this particular error, and ideally making it more fault tolerant so that when there is a parsing error like this it doesn't prevent you from installing altogether, but at worst you just miss out on some features.

Thanks again for the report and extra info, it's much appreciated

[toebeann]

Should be fixed as of gib v0.7.12

[gnarlymt]

Can confirm that this works for me, although I have installed/re-installed so many times for my son's needs, that I don't know where I am.

Anyway, this is working 100% of the time on both of our machines.