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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.

3 Answers

+1 vote
by (68.6k points)
It's a known bug in Twine 2 v2.2.0 with the color tags feature.
by (360 points)
That's tough. And isn't there any workaround to make the file work again?
by (68.6k points)
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.
by (159k points)
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.
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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.

by (159k points)
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.
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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.

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