Issue found while trying to improve corrupted config debugging.

Steps to reproduce:

• Ensure that you have not NVDA to start when opening your session, else, it may cause you more difficulty.
• With NVDA not running (e.g. with Narrator), edit your nvda.ini config file to create a syntax error in it: e.g. remove the closing bracket (]) from "[general]" section name
• Start NVDA

Actual behavior:

NVDA restarts forever.

Note: Control+alt+delete and reboot your computer or change user session to avoid it to restart forever.

Expected behavior:

Restore the behaviour of NVDA 2023.1, that is:
NVDA should display a message that the config is corrupted and reinitialize it to default.
Note: The goal of this issue is to fix the regression that has occurred in NVDA 2023.2. I think that there is another issue to improve the behaviour existing in NVDA 2023.1, i.e. do not throw away the config file, but I have not been able to find it.

NVDA logs, crash dumps and other attachments:

nvda-old.log

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

Installed

NVDA version:

NVDA 2023.3rc2

Windows version:

Windows 10 22H2 (AMD64) build 19045.3570

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

N/A

Other information about your system:

N/A

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

Yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

Bug also present in NVDA 2023.2.
NVDA 2023.1 is fine instead.

If NVDA add-ons are disabled, is your problem still occurring?

Not tested; unrelated.

Does the issue still occur after you run the COM Registration Fixing Tool in NVDA's tools menu?

Not tested; unrelated.