Comment 6 for bug 1731655

I was having a lot of problems with loading up schematic files created before the recent major changes in the library system. Amongts other problem I was also getting the asserts about https://github.com/ not being an absolute path. I couldn't find any reference to the path other than as the path associated with a default env var as shown in Preferences -> Configure Paths.

Looking at my env vars and the associated paths I noticed that the paths for KICAD_PTEMPLATES and KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR both ended in / where all env vars did not. I removed the trailing / from the paths used for those two env vars and all the problems I was having have gone away.

I was able to load up one of my old schematics, go through the symbol rescue and remap process, see a schematic looking the way it used to look, then save it and reload it without any further problem.

Additional note: I removed my ~/.config/kicad directory to check the paths set by default. All paths looked good (ie. no trailing /) except for KISYS3DMOD which did end in a /. I suspect that may cause problems in other parts of KiCad.