First time visitor to the forums, forgive my ignorance of proper decorum.
in the simplest of terms: I can create a new empty project (both in editor versions 2022.3.5f1 and 2022.2.1f1), navigate to Window >> Package Manager, locate the Input System (version 1.6.3 for the 3.5f1 version of unity and 1.4.4 for the 2.1f1 version), install it, receive the popup message that asks if I want to enable the new input handling backend, click yes (which I am informed will restart my editor), and upon reboot I see the attached loading popup, after which my editor crashes, and the Unity Bug Reporter appears.
In my logs directory I have a file ‘shadercompiler-UnityShaderCompiler.exe0.log’, here are the entirety of its contents:
Base path: ‘C:/Program Files/Unity/Hub/Editor/2022.3.5f1/Editor/Data’, plugins path ‘C:/Program Files/Unity/Hub/Editor/2022.3.5f1/Editor/Data/PlaybackEngines’
Cmd: initializeCompiler
Unhandled exception: Protocol error - failed to read magic number (error -2147483644, transferred 0/4)
Quitting shader compiler process
upon relaunching my project the same error loading popup appears and the editor crashes, every time.
I’ve googled everything about that log message with combinations of ‘unity’ and ‘input system’ and found absolutely nothing.
I’ve uninstalled/reinstalled unityHub, and the two versions of the editor listed above.
I’ve tried deleting the /library and /temp folders from my project (before I learned I could repro in an empty project).
I’ve filled out a Unity Bug Report both the first time it happened, and a second time now that I know I can repro it so simply and know it happens every single time.
I’m frankly mystified, but I thought I’d post here in the off chance someone has seen this before but never posted about it anywhere a google search can find it. Any suggestions appreciated, thanks for reading.
edit:
since initially posting, this problem is still reproduceable for me in clean installs and empty projects in version 3.6.f1 and 3.7.f1
