gnome-boxes crashes on startup after cancelling clone of a VM by closing the program

I know, there's a similar question with the problem manifesting in a similar way but using virsh didn't work for me, it refused to delete the problematic VM. I tried deleting all the configs to stop gnome-boxes from trying to load a faulty VM list but it didn't work. I deleted everything named gnome-boxes* in my home directory and apt purgeing it then reinstalling, the problem persisted.