fatal error // starting passage not selected

Question

Good morning!

I have been tinkering all morning with the online version. Everything has been working great, until I started assigning tag colors. Since then, when I click "play" I get

Apologies! A fatal error has occurred. Aborting.

Error: starting passage not selected.

Stack Trace:
t@http://twinery.org/2/#!/stories/8d17665d-b961-4cac-ad31-ec50a57cc334/test/c896dab9-226d-4378-8b02-96ff542ce8c1:4058:30627
@http://twinery.org/2/#!/stories/8d17665d-b961-4cac-ad31-ec50a57cc334/test/c896dab9-226d-4378-8b02-96ff542ce8c1:4060:9819
j@http://twinery.org/2/#!/stories/8d17665d-b961-4cac-ad31-ec50a57cc334/test/c896dab9-226d-4378-8b02-96ff542ce8c1:59:29946
g/</k<@http://twinery.org/2/#!/stories/8d17665d-b961-4cac-ad31-ec50a57cc334/test/c896dab9-226d-4378-8b02-96ff542ce8c1:59:30262

 

I have removed the tag colours and reset the starting passage (assigned it to another passage and then back to where t ought to be), but the error persists.

 

Any thoughts,what I can do?

EDIT: I forgot to mention: I  get this error from any passage I start (in Test mode). If I select a different starting passage, the error persists. Just rebooted my computer, same story.

Answer 1

It's a known bug in Twine 2 v2.2.0 with the color tags feature.

Comments

That's tough. And isn't there any workaround to make the file work again?

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In the short term?  Not as far as I am aware.  It's an issue with how the feature is stored within the data chunk.

Once a release of Twine 2 has been issued which fixes the issue?  Probably.  It should be possible for Twine 2 to automatically repair projects which have been affected.  I haven't been keeping an eye on that though, so I may be wrong on that point.

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A new version 2.2.1 of Twine 2 has been released which may stop this issue from occurring again in the future. I don't know if it is able to fix existing Story Projects.

Answer 2

I have exactly the same problem with a few of my stories. My advice: every time you don't get this error, publish to HTML. Re-installing the story from the published HTML file fixes the error. It is not only a result of colored tags, as it happens to me in some stories without them.

Comments

A new version 2.2.1 of Twine 2 has been released which may stop this issue from occurring again in the future. I don't know if it is able to fix existing Story Projects.

Answer 3

This  code fixes the problem:

Config.passages.start = "That Other Starting Passage";

I know, it's annoying, as you are supposed to select the starting passage. At least your stories are not gone forever though.