Heroic Games Launcher•5mo ago

oh-my-posh causes SyntaxError: Unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON

Just did the troubleshooting and want some help mitigating. No game could get game info. I saw this line in the Heroic logs which told me nothing

(19:32:35) ERROR:   [Legendary]:        Error: Failed to parse install info for 98614687b212444c9ff0d42095f56cb3 with: SyntaxError: Unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON at position 880 (line 2 column 1)

    at Module.$n (C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Programs\heroic\resources\app.asar\build\main\main.js:114:2826)

    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

    at C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Programs\heroic\resources\app.asar\build\main\main.js:184:4033

    at WebContents.<anonymous> (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:83537)

(19:32:35) ERROR:   [Legendary]:        Error: Failed to parse install info for 98614687b212444c9ff0d42095f56cb3 with: SyntaxError: Unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON at position 880 (line 2 column 1)

    at Module.$n (C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Programs\heroic\resources\app.asar\build\main\main.js:114:2826)

    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

    at C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Programs\heroic\resources\app.asar\build\main\main.js:184:4033

    at WebContents.<anonymous> (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:83537)

However, in all the logs I also saw fastfetch dump my personal info over and over and over. Turns out Powershell was calling my profile at C:\Users\myusername\OneDrive\Documents\WindowsPowerShell, which in addition to fastfetch, included oh-my-posh --init --shell pwsh --config $themePath | Invoke-Expression I commented out this line and Heroic was immediately able to pull my info correctly. Is there a way to call Powershell bypassing the profile? Or to set up my profile so that it doesn't trigger when called by Heroic?

17 Replies

rival-black•5mo ago

post the whole log, not just the bits you think are relevant

protestant-coralOP•5mo ago

Sorry it's full of PII due to aforementioned fastfetch lol Let me redact

dependent-tan•5mo ago

I wonder if you can make that fastfetch or that oh-my-posh to not output anything, that might be easier maybe? or maybe only call that line if one of the heroic env variables is not present

protestant-coralOP•5mo ago

wait actually i forgot i uploaded a redacted version already. dummy https://0x0.st/8sD5.log https://0x0.st/8sDk.log at first I thought it was y'all scraping my PC and I was freakin out fastfetch is running on lines marked [an absurd amount of personal info redacted] so y'all are starting a new pwsh process there

protestant-coralOP•5mo ago

I think there's a way to pass a -NonInteractive flag which I could detect. Per this StackOverflow thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9738535/powershell-test-for-noninteractive-mode

Stack Overflow

Powershell test for noninteractive mode

I have a script that may be run manually or may be run by a scheduled task. I need to programmatically determine if I'm running in -noninteractive mode (which is set when run via scheduled task) or

protestant-coralOP•5mo ago

Although I'll admit it's out of my depth genuinely surprised this hasn't cropped up before

dependent-tan•5mo ago

looks like there's a -NoProfile command that can be passed to powershell

protestant-coralOP•5mo ago

or that

dependent-tan•5mo ago

most users don't really know what powershell is, let alone adding a profile

protestant-coralOP•5mo ago

lol fair so y'all can fix it somewhat easily?

dependent-tan•5mo ago

I don't really use windows at all, so I don't know, maybe it's a matter of adding that -NoProfile when calling powershell but I have no way of testing, I'll share this with the rest in case someone knows how to handle that

protestant-coralOP•5mo ago

Sounds good. I'll just leave my profile commented for now. I'm happy to run tests in the future if it would help. Will this be an Issue on GitHub? I could track it there

dependent-tan•5mo ago

sure, it will make it easier to find, this can get burried with new support threads added every day

protestant-coralOP•5mo ago

i had a feeling You want me to submit?

dependent-tan•5mo ago

sure!

protestant-coralOP•5mo ago

on it, boss

protestant-coralOP•5mo ago

https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/4227

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Heroic calls PowerShell, which uses $PROFILE, which can contain com...

Describe the bug TL;DR: Heroic is using PowerShell on Windows, which calls a user's $PROFILE, and some things (like oh-my-posh) can interfere with Heroic. Please use -NoProfile to prevent this....

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oh-my-posh causes SyntaxError: Unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON

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