attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'TipIndex' (a nil value)

[Krzyska-Filip]

Describe the bug Some players (every 5/6th player) receive an error as soon as they join the server. They can't see hud and they can't use f1(settings), scoreboard. In addition, they see a white window on the right.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. Connect to the server.
2. Just it.

Expected behaviour

1. HUD should work - it doesn't
2. F1 should open settings - it opens empty
3. Tab should open scoreboard - it doesn't

Screenshots Below. (cl_error)

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Collection-Link of your Server: Below (workshop.txt)
  • Server and Client Errors are the same `[ERROR] addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_lang.lua:75: bad argument #1 to 'rawget' (table expected, got nil)
    1. rawget - [C]:-1
    2. GetRaw - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_lang.lua:75
    3. SafeTranslate - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_lang.lua:82
    4. GetEquipmentTranslation - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/shared/sh_init.lua:244
    5. unknown - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_hudpickup.lua:20 [ERROR] addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_tips.lua:213: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)
    6. pairs - [C]:-1
    7. unknown - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_tips.lua:213 [ERROR] addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_lang.lua:68: attempt to index upvalue 'cached_active' (a nil value)
    8. GetTranslation - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_lang.lua:68
    9. Init - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_tips.lua:78
    10. Create - lua/includes/extensions/client/panel/scriptedpanels.lua:37
    11. Create - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_tips.lua:259
    12. Show - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_tips.lua:269
    13. func - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_main.lua:397
    14. unknown - lua/includes/extensions/net.lua:32 [ERROR] addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_tips.lua:135: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'TipIndex' (a nil value)
    15. NextTip - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_tips.lua:135
    16. unknown - addons/trouble_in_terrorist_town2(advancedupdate)-_v0.5.2b_1357204556/gamemodes/terrortown/gamemode/client/cl_tips.lua:242`

files: workshop.txt clientside_errors.txt

[TimGoll]

This is strange since the bug seems to be caused by the vanilla TTT tips in the bottom area. Do you know if these player might have disabled the tips?

[TimGoll]

Additionally to your line --resource.AddWorkshop(1117144118) --ttt2 team buy ---------------doesn't work: TTT/2 teambuy does work. This might be a problem on your side

[Alf21]

The tips are irrelevant. You have a incompatible addon. Maybe the wrong tttdamagelogs or the wrong specdm?

[TimGoll]

damagaelogs was my first thought as well because of the problem with the fifth player. But the error does look different than the typical damagelogs error

[TimGoll]

A tip for the future: please use a service like gist.github.com oder pastebin.com instead of textfiles

[Krzyska-Filip]

I. Two people said they had turned on. II. I turned off because one addon was shown as unknown without an icon III. I have removed all addons and cache except ttt2 according to your suspicions and now it works. Thank you for your time.

Edit: it was caused by damagelogs.

[Alf21]

Use my damagelogs instead. There is a hint in the ws and GitHub too :D

[Krzyska-Filip]

I have installed your logs but they still didn't work. So I tried this solution (https://github.com/Alf21/TTT2/pull/332/files) and now it works fine.

[Alf21]

To fix it finally, there need to be a reallocation of the PANEL (self var) and the cached tables ("cached_default ", "cached_active"). But as I said, this will just fix the error spam, not the primary error. @Dzwiedziasty