LUA error pop up window adventures

You get these lua errors all the time and so in trying to figure out what is going on you decide to research it. Well, so, you type in a command to let the LUA error pop ups be allowed again. Then you think you know what the problem is – of course. It’s your addons. So you go through your addons and up date each one that is out of date. All good, right? Now you wont have error problems any more!?!

Wrong. And not only will you have error problems, you will now get these pop ups in dungeons, when you want to mail something, and at other inopportune times, like when you are a healer in a dungeon and the tank is almost dead and you are trying to decide whether to dodge or heal. Well, that isnt going to end well…

How the heck do you stop the pop up windows?! Help please.

lua errors are addon related. updating addons will sometimes fix them but there are saved settings and such that can be corrupted. so updating or disabling addons won’t always clear up any corrupted settings, so you’ll need to do a UI reset. https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/7549

the best thing to do is do that reset, then re-install fresh copies of all of your addons. this typically is enough to fix everything. if that still doesn’t work, then i’d start trying to figure out which ones are causing issues.

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Some Blizzard code is also in LUA, so sometimes a LUA fault is caused by Blizzard code, but triggered with broken stored configuration, so the UI reset will help that too.

If you use addons, and you don’t mind going one further, a bug-trapping addon like Bugsack might suppress the less egregious bug popups, but there are some LUA faults that can’t be buried. And ignoring LUA errors doesn’t make them go away; they may cause further issues like config corruption or interfering with game actions, so not a good idea.

You can use the command /console scriptErrors 0 to disable the window.

However, this only hides the error messages. While some are ultimately harmless, if addons start to cause your game to behave very erratically, you can’t even begin to diagnose the problem until you enable them again (/console scriptErrors 1) and get the error to occur again for the message to reappear.

Hey there Fluffy,

The LUA error itself should say inside the text what the error is related to. Most commonly it will list an addons folder but not always. If Yindar’s solution does not work please provide us with a screenshot of the LUA error so we may better assist you.

Example: Imgur*com/abc123

If it does turn out to be an addon, but reinstalling the addon does not fix it, I might suggest rolling with Lokgor’s solution until the addon developer updates their thing. Addons are not made by Blizzard so our support for them is very limited.

Hope the info helps. Cheers!

I’ve tried using this command, repeatedly, but it doesn’t stop the pop up windows.

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The command is case-sensitive.

I just tested the command and then ran another one to make sure the value was changing, and that is indeed the correct command.

If you’re still seeing errors, then my guesses are:

  1. You did not type the command correctly.
  2. Your UI is so messed up that the command is not successfully being parsed.
  3. You are running mods with their own error-handler systems (TSM, for example) that ignore this setting.

Regardless, if you are getting this many errors that it is so very disruptive, it’s clear that there are many things wrong with your current mods or settings. I would make sure you update all of your addons with the game fully closed. If all of them are up to date, then either you have settings that are corrupted and need to be reset, some of the addons still require work on the author’s behalf to fix errors, or there are compatibility issues between a couple of your addons.

If you post some of the errors here, I might be able to help.

This is the most common cause of that command not working unfortunately. Lokgor’s steps, or Yindar’s steps to reset the UI should fix the issue. At that point you’d just rebuild the UI from scratch which should prevent further errors.

Well, I uninstalled the game and did a fresh reinstall. Now that window is popping up in Horrific Visions and right before bosses when leveling a healer. I wont detail the result in a couple cases, but would love to know if there is some way to move that window. A few moments ago I entered the console command to stop it from popping up, but am worried it wont work again. Hence, as a backup to stop its very obstructive nature, I would like to get it out of the middle of the screen for if and when it does pop up to prevent it from once again messing up my game play. Moveanything has no way to do that. Is there another way?

Hey there Fluffy,

Could you provide a screenshot of the error? Just take the capture, post it on imgur or similar image sharing website, then post the link here. Use the `` marks on the same key as the ~ button on either side of the link. It should look like this: imagewebsite.com/abc123

For the sake of it, are you using any addons? and if so, which ones?

The problem has abated, thanks.