[PatPeter]

I receive this error at server startup:

Connection to Steam servers successful.
KeyValues Error: RecursiveLoadFromBuffer:  got } in key in file addons/sourcemod/configs/admin_groups.cfg
Groups, Full Admins, 
KeyValues Error: RecursiveLoadFromBuffer:  got } in key in file addons/sourcemod/configs/admin_groups.cfg
Groups, 99, (*Full Admins*), 
KeyValues Error: LoadFromBuffer: missing { in file addons/sourcemod/configs/admin_groups.cfg
(*Groups*), (*99*), (*Full Admins*), 
   VAC secure mode is activated.

But my admin_groups.cfg is vanilla:

I know that the error is coming from my database, but I have never had a group named "Full Admins", nor is it a default group (Root Admin, Server Admin, Administrator, Moderator, Member).

[thetwistedpanda]

Mind posting the file just for shittles and giggles?

[PatPeter]

PHP Code:

Groups
{
    /**
     * Allowed properties for a group:
     *
     *   "flags"           - Flag string.
     *   "immunity"        - Immunity level number, or a group name.
     *                         If the group name is a number, prepend it with an 
     *                         '@' symbol similar to admins_simple.ini.  Users 
     *                         will only inherit the level number if it's higher 
     *                         than their current value.
     */
    "Default"
    {
        "immunity"        "1"
    }
    
    "Full Admins"
    {
        /**
         * You can override commands and command groups here.
         * Specify a command name or group and either "allow" or "deny"
         * Examples:
         *         ":CSDM"            "allow"
         *        "csdm_enable"    "deny"
         */
         Overrides
         {
         }
        "flags"            "abcdefghiz"

        /* Largish number for lots of in-between values. */
        "immunity"        "99"
    }
} 


[Rytis]

Put that in the file:

PHP Code:

Groups
{
} 


[PatPeter]

That fixed it but I don't understand why the default admin_groups.cfg was causing an error. It might be related to SourceBans.

[Rytis]

I don't know

[rhelgeby]

Try removing the comments. Valve's KeyValue parser doesn't like block comments, it only accepts line comments. Though this is not the root cause, it's most likely a plugin trying to read the file using incorrect parser.