had an unusual experiance with MP... One day (after my grilfriend had been home alone) MP would start anymore (crashed unexpectedly) config would start either. TV-server worked fine though...
After alot of going back and forth i eventually discovered that mediaportal.xml had been truncated to zero (ie file exist but no content). I deleted the emty file and everything ran smoothly.
unfortunaly i have no logs (deleted accidently) and i have no idea why the file was truncated to zero. so no reproduce (give my girlfriend another go
). but perhaps an exceptionhandler should not just look at if the file exist (which i would image it does?) but also if it is valid too?
/regard
this was on vista with the SVN build of last week