Awake being called twice

Unity Engine
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Unity was working as it should. I had two hidden scripts :/.

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How are you determining that Awake is being called twice?

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Agreed w/ A.Killingbeck, how do you know it’s being called twice?

Are you sure you don’t have 2 of the same script attached to gameobjects in your scene?

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A debug statement. New scene + empty game object + single script with (void Awake())

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There’s probably just something weird I’m doing. But putting a flag to make sure awake doesn’t get called more than twice fixes it all. And I know there’s not some strange second script somewhere cause the flag fixed it. If there were two separate scripts then I would have seen the message logged twice.

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That’s just a bandaid… you should figure out why Awake is being called more than once. Because it shouldn’t be.

Are you calling ‘SendMessage(“Awake”)’ anywhere?

What does your code look like?

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Nevermind. I wrote a search script which searched for any given script in the scene. Looks like I accidentally dropped the script on something else buried in the hierarchy so there were two instances (facepalm).

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Hi.
Recently I also had such an issue.
Awake() was called twice when I exited from play mode.
After some research through SmartGit change-logs found out that the error was after I had added
[ExecuteInEditMode] for the Script.

I hope this will help others also.

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My problem was the same, did you find a workarround to fix it without removing the [ExecuteInEditMode] ?

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In my case it was ok to remove [ExecuteInEditMode].
But you can run the body of Awake() method only when application is in “playing” state.

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (Application.isPlaying)
        {
            // Do Something
        }
    }
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This comment just helped me 13 years later. I had two…

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Thanks.

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I saw the Awake can be called 2 times if it’s a class in a scene loaded with SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync