(Adding a disclaimer:
Ahem: this could just be my situation. That's simply similar enough. I just had to rebuild my CoX icons because my "Testing of Heroes" [Training Room] icon was suddenly pointing at my main account... and of COURSE my normal CoH icon at the Training Room @.x
I will re-edit if suddenly it's all back to soundVMusic7.pigg complaining, and the checksum is busted again. *sigh* And no I don't know WHY they switched around x.X
UPDATE: That fixed it for me, the manifest so far is coming up fine for CoH and CoHTest. Both are 11kb. as I don't know why the icons would switch around like that, and that this might be sign for others, I'm leaving the rest of the posting alone
/Disclaimer)
Noticed an hour ago:
******The Checksum file itself is breaking.******
4KB instead of 11KB (or there abouts as it is close in size to Live).
It says the installation is about half the size it should be even with every file in place. The exact place CohTest.checksum breaks? You guessed it soundVMusic7.pigg:
Test:
file "piggs/soundVMusic7.pigg"
time 1253127656
full 30110410 d8b51d63 7ec5391e 98
Live:
file "piggs/soundVMusic7.pigg"
time 1253127656
full 30110410 d8b51d63 7ec5391e 9884612c 9cd52396
I've copied the entire directory from live. However I must have something just a little different in my Coh.Checksum and so it gets the manifest again and then the ChoTest.checksum breaks itself again and the loop resumes.
Hopefully this helps some people avoiding a reinstall... as it's likely to remain broken for a bit until the Devs break out the bugspray. (The Bugspray might have been applied. Unsure)
You can create a new character (skip the tutorial) and it gets bumped to 50. Then just go to Recluse's Victory and get one of the exploration badges and you can get to Oroboros to do the first mission. You don't need enhancements for the first mission, but you definitely need them for other parts of the arc, so it's a good thing that you're also given 30 million influence or infamy.