[solved]Persistent Object disappearing when room restarts

[elmagnum]

I have two objects: o_player and o_holder.
o_holder is persistent and is created when the game starts. o_player is not persistent and only is created when the game room is entered. This one needs variables form o_holder to work.
I put an option to restart the level in the pause menu [room_restart();]. However, when the room is restarted, an error appears saying that the holder object wasn't found by the player object:

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ERROR in
action number 1
of Create Event
for object o_player:

Unable to find any instance for object index '26' name 'o_holder'
 at gml_Object_o_player_Create_0 (line 2) - level = o_holder.level;
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gml_Object_o_player_Create_0 (line 2)

I believe persistent objects are supposed to persist even if the room is restarted, right? Any ideas on how the holder object is disappearing?

Thank you.

 

[Nidoking]

Might want to run it in the debugger and see whether there's an instance of o_holder when this event runs or not. A breakpoint in o_holder's Destroy event will tell you if it's being destroyed somehow.

 

[elmagnum]

Thanks for the tip! Using the debugger I saw the instance wasn't active because I deactivated it in the pause menu. To solve it, I simply added an instance_activate_object(o_holder) in the pause code.