Strange error message that output told me to report 🤔

[TimeFrenzied (xand)]

Hope this is useful because I really don’t know what to even call this. The output unironically told me to create a bug report.

Requirements

^{? - I have no clue}

• This has only worked in team-create sessions for me so far. (Works in “Shared with you” games.)
• Works in some games but not others.
• It only occurs if you get another strange “Double connection with PlayServer option?”
• The “Debug Errors” option, found in the Script tab after opening a script, must be set to “On Unhandled Exceptions.”
  • There seems to be other bugs with this option such as interference with plugins (in-case it’s relevant) and strange “Not running script because past shutdown deadline” messages.
• It actually might ONLY work if you get the “Not running script because past shutdown deadline” error in that session?

Reproduction Steps

• Open a team-create session.
• Insert a script into workspace.
• Paste the following into the script:

local a = game.Players.a

• Play the game, stop it using the popup when you get the first error, and play it again. Sometimes it takes less or more, but try switching to a different team-create game if you don’t get it in about 10 tries.

Extras?

• The error can be printed again by closing and reopening the output without ending the play session.
• This is probably related to the new Explorer beta due to one of the error messages referencing it.
• I seriously don’t understand how it works but I’m trying to be as useful as possible lol, sorry.

A private message is associated with this bug report

[12345koip]

Already reported/related report (same error message):

Odd Error Message Insisting a Bug Report

I got this error immediately when performing a run test. "Could not find an instance by ID (set selection). I don’t notice anything that has changed, only that the error insisted on posting a bug report. At the time of the error, (4/8/2025) 10:00 PM MST, I have all beta features enabled. I am unable to reproduce the bug. [image_2025-04-08_220051870] Here is my system information: Ryzen 5 3600 GTX 1070 FTW 48 GB DDR4 Memory Asus B4500-F Motherboard Windows 10 Home Build 19045

[Dogekidd2012]

Thank you very much, this confirmed the exact suspicion I had on what was causing this.

In your Explorer, what is the version in the title bar, if there is one?

[TimeFrenzied (xand)]

Glad I was useful, sorry for the duplicate. I’m on explorer v0.25.

[roblox_user_19965962 (EJ1)]

Hah, I’ve never, ever seen something like this in 5 years of experience. I didn’t know there were specific error outputs that told you to report…
I’ll take a better look at my errors from now on

[TimeFrenzied (xand)]

They’re really rare to come across FWIK.

This is my first time encountering one, surprised I found a way to reproduce it.

[bvetterdays (roman)]

Can you add the entire error here? I’m trying to work out if similar posts are duplicates or not and can’t if you haven’t provided the whole error. None of the error is private info!

[TimeFrenzied (xand)]

oh yeah forgot

[AuraSama (akai)]

I’ve also got a similar error:

Explorer Could not find an instance by ID (viewing)

[image] I got this error after clicking on a separate error that opened a script.

[pensive_penguin]

Thanks for the detailed report! We believe this should be fixed now, but please let us know if you run into it again

[UDudekid (Hazzza)]

I have just run into this error again, so I believe it is not fixed. It happened when I deleted a module script from the explorer. Not sure if this was the cause but I did delete that script 2 twice before in the same studio session, hitting undo after to bring it back each time after ~5 mins. Then the third time I deleted it I got this message. I don’t see any other consequences apart from the error message.