window number mode breaks initial drawing of modeline

[tychoish]

When I have window-number-on, and I open/create a new frame, the modeline is blank. The first time I split the frame (even to call helm) the mode line is drawn, and everything works normall from this point forward.

This does not happen for the first frame created when I start a new emacs instance.

[tychoish]

As I've dug further into this, I see the following as a cause of this, likely.

Error during redisplay: (eval (spaceline-ml-main)) signaled (wrong-type-argument hash-table-p nil)
QuitError during redisplay: (eval (spaceline-ml-main)) signaled (wrong-type-argument hash-table-p nil)

[agenbite]

I also have a blank modeline and the same error in my messages buffer. :(

EDIT: I solved it by setting powerline-height to 1.

EDIT 2: for some reason, I have to instruct emacs that powerline-height is 1 every time I launch it. Else, the modeline is blank.

[agenbite]

I've settled down to these values which make spaceline work properly:

    (setq powerline-height 33)
    (setq powerline-scale 1.5)