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[Joeld98]

My advanced computer is starting after a server reboot but errors with attempt to index ? (a nil value) when it tries to access the monitors the first time. If I run startup from the command prompt it works fine.

It's a basic billboard program using 4 network connected monitors (8X6). Should the network devices be accessible on boot?


http://pastebin.com/BJDjbGQu

[Bomb Bloke]

Just off the top of my head, does it make a difference if you add a sleep(0) to the top of the script?

[Joeld98]

No difference. I've tried adding sleep steps up to 15 in the startup and in my billboard program.

When the server restarts or when I issue a reboot command I get the nil error at line 114 which is the first attempt to use a monitor.

I'll do some more testing to try to isolate it.

[Bomb Bloke]

I suppose another guess at a workaround might be to throw something like this under line five:

if #monitor < 4 then
  sleep(10)
  os.reboot()
end

Edited by Bomb Bloke, 22 October 2016 - 01:41 PM.

[Joeld98]

I had a disk drive attached to the computer. As soon as I remove it the computer was able to start and find the monitors without throwing an error.