ERROR: ModError: Failed to load and run /mod_directory/init.

[Merlin]

[Somehow I cannot edit the subject anymore, the error goes like "ERROR: ModError: Failed to load and run ~/.minetest/mods/mod/init.lua".]

Hi,
every mod I install fails with the error above when I try to load a server world, but I don't think it's a naming problem because I used the names in the brackets and Minetests recognizes the mods.
I am on Fedora and I use Minetest 4.9.

Examples are the animals, technic and pipeworks mods, which seem to work for everybody else.

This is the Lua Error I get(debug.txt is several thousand lines long, please tell me if I should look out for something specific).

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23:41:45: ERROR[main]: ========== ERROR FROM LUA ===========
23:41:45: ERROR[main]: Failed to load and run script from
23:41:45: ERROR[main]: /home/glados/.minetest/mods/pipeworks/init.lua:
23:41:45: ERROR[main]: /home/glados/.minetest/mods/pipeworks/compat.lua:4: attempt to call field 'override_item' (a nil value)
23:41:45: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:
23:41:45: ERROR[main]:  /home/glados/.minetest/mods/pipeworks/compat.lua:4: in main chunk
23:41:45: ERROR[main]:  [C]: in function 'dofile'
23:41:45: ERROR[main]:  /home/glados/.minetest/mods/pipeworks/init.lua:124: in main chunk
23:41:45: ERROR[main]: ======= END OF ERROR FROM LUA ========

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

[kaeza]

Hello and welcome!

Have you looked at How to report bugs?

In particular:

Also add output from debug.txt in the topic (use the [code] tags of BBCode for that):

• Go to the bin/ directory of your Minetest copy (or ~/.minetest/ in a globally installed Minetest) and delete the existing debug.txt
• Add "debug_log_level = 4" to minetest.conf
• Start Minetest and reproduce the bug
• Close Minetest (if it hasnt crashed already) and copy the contents of the new debug.txt
• (Remove "debug_log_level = 4" from minetest.conf)

[Merlin]

Ahh...sorry I didn't see that one, I will add the information right away, thanks!

[Merlin]

Added the Lua Error part of debug.txt.

[kaeza]

Ah didn't see you are using 0.4.9.

You should update to 0.4.10, wait a bit for 0.4.11 (to be released in the next days, IIRC), or request the mod author(s) if they can provide a link to a version of the mod that still works in 0.4.9.

[Merlin]

I update my System regulary, but yum always tells me, that minetest is up to date. Seems like there is no 0.4.10 for Fedora.

Interestingly, there is 0.4.10 declared in the package database, I'll try to find out why my system refuses to update it.

[Don]

The repository is slow to update. This is not Minetest that does this it is the repository maintainers.
Try this.
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=3837

[philipbenr]

If that doesn't work, there is an easier script. If you git clone everything from github, (including mods) and compile from source with a local install, then there is this script (put this in a .sh file)

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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    cd minetest
    start=`pwd`
    for path in `find -name ".git"`; do
      cd $path/..
      echo "updating " $(basename `pwd`)
      git pull
    done

    echo "building updates"
    cd $start
    make -j4 


The last line is for my quad-core laptop, so edit the number to the number of cores you have (or get rid of it if you have more than one).

[Merlin]

I compiled it from source and it works so far, thanks for your help. : )

[philipbenr]

You're welcome.