Problem
**I created a local user account on Windows 10 (1903) where the username was just a single unicode character (☃). This resulted in the user's home directory becoming `C:\Users\☃\`.
After installing the launcher and downloading the latest Minecraft (1.14.4), the launcher fails to launch the game.
When the launcher fails to launch the game, A dialog box shows up with "An unexpected issue occurred and the game has crashed...", clicking on "View crash report" does not do anything.
Reproduction
- Create a new account in Windows 10
- Settings
- Accounts
- Family & Other users
- Add someone else to this PC
- The person I want to add doesn't have an email address
- Add a user without a Microsoft account
- For the username insert the snowman emoji ☃.
- Press [Start] + [.] to bring up the emoji panel.
- Search for "snowman"
- Press [Enter]
- Leave the password blank and continue
- Switch to the new ☃ account
- Click on Start
- Click on your user Icon
- Select the ☃ account
- Open the Minecraft Launcher
- Install and launch minecraft
- Observe that the game failed to start and the launcher does not have any crash logs.
Notes
By enabling the output log in the settings, I can see that the game almost started, but fails with Error: Could not find or load main class net.minecraft.client.main.Main
16:09:22 launcher main debug Local file C:\Users\☃\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\assets\objects\dd\dda1aba6d94904d8f2da651c2b31e1954146b8f2 has hash of dda1aba6d94904d8f2da651c2b31e1954146b8f2 16:09:22 launcher main debug Local file C:\Users\☃\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\assets\objects\3c\3c2a21c08602fe8c794081c6c6f92ca394acf3d4 has filesize of 23120 bytes 16:09:22 launcher main debug Local file C:\Users\☃\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\assets\objects\3c\3c2a21c08602fe8c794081c6c6f92ca394acf3d4 should have hash of 3c2a21c08602fe8c794081c6c6f92ca394acf3d4 16:09:22 launcher main debug Local file C:\Users\☃\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\assets\objects\3c\3c2a21c08602fe8c794081c6c6f92ca394acf3d4 has hash of 3c2a21c08602fe8c794081c6c6f92ca394acf3d4 16:09:22 launcher main debug Local file C:\Users\☃\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\assets\objects\1b\1b760a887cc727484fa1685bf3d8670899c86654 has filesize of 19905 bytes 16:09:22 launcher main debug Local file C:\Users\☃\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\assets\objects\1b\1b760a887cc727484fa1685bf3d8670899c86654 should have hash of 1b760a887cc727484fa1685bf3d8670899c86654 16:09:22 launcher main debug Local file C:\Users\☃\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\assets\objects\1b\1b760a887cc727484fa1685bf3d8670899c86654 has hash of 1b760a887cc727484fa1685bf3d8670899c86654 16:09:22 launcher main info Checking installations. 16:09:22 launcher main info Minecraft client 1.14.4 is ready to start. 16:09:22 launcher main info Starting! 16:09:22 launcher main debug Nothing to download! 16:09:22 launcher main debug Extracting 7 files! 16:09:24 launcher main info Using default game log configuration client-1.12.xml (outputs XML) 16:09:36 launcher main debug Installing versions! 16:09:37 launcher main info Error: Could not find or load main class net.minecraft.client.main.Main 16:09:37 monitor Process Monitor fatal Process crashed with exit code 1
I hope this helps
- duplicates
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MCL-9929 Failed to locate library: lwjgl.dll (caused by non-ANSI characters in usernames)
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