yet another n00b begging for help

Grimtooth · #1 10-29-2007, 02:02 PM

well im sure you all get tired of seeing these posts, but i just dont know what else to do... i have searched till my eyes bleed, read, and re-read wiki's... and all to no avail.

Basically (and i HATE to say this, you're all goin to love to hear it) I dont even know what the freaking problem is because im not getting an error message..

when i click on my startup batch file, the first shell window opens fine, the second shell opens and closes so fast that i can't even read what it says..
(i tried for about 15 minutes to double click and hit print screen at the same time, but couldnt get a pic to read the box lol)

the original shell then just does the "wait for world to finish loading..." text that was inserted as part of the wiki tutorial, hits and the next "Pause".

and then when i hit a button another shell breifly flashes on the screen and dissapears, once again, much too fast to read (i took out the cls and added some extra pauses in case there was anything there that i might be able to read, but nothing)

finally, i hit another button to pass the next pause, and the original shell closes...

once again i apologize for the fact that i dont have a discreet Error to ask for help with, but then again... if i did i might not have to post here at all...

Grim

i used this guide to set everthing up: http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...ka=ws992mysql5

for reference: (going along with the wiki)
-CVS: installed

-Perl: installed (v. 5.8.8 )
-DBI = installed
-DBD-mysql = installed
-IO_Stringy = installed

-MySQL: installed (v. 5.0.xx)
-Load_system = sourced (PEQ)
-Load_player = sourced (PEQ)

-Maps / newmaps = unzipped to eqemu\maps\*.map

*************** INI ********** ***

###Your current configuration is as follows:

loginserver.ini:
[LoginServer]
loginserver=127.0.0.1
loginport=5998
worldname=My Minilogin
worldaddress=127.0.0.1
locked=false
account=
password=

[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=
Unavailzone=
[ChatChannelServer]

worldshortname=
chataddress=
chatport=

[LoginConfig]
ServerMode=Minilogin
ServerPort=5999

***********Config******************

?xml version="1.0">
<server>
<world>
<shortname>Grimtest</shortname>
<longname>Grims testing toy</longname>






<loginserver>
<host>eqemulator.net</host>
<port>5999</port>
<account></account>
<password></password>
</loginserver>


<key>some long random string</key>


<http port="9080" enabled="true" mimefile="mime.types" />
</world>


<database>
<host>localhost</host>
<port>3306</port>
<username>root</username>
<password> *not gonna post this* </password>
<db>peq</db>
</database>
</server>

************Batch***************

@echo off
start world.exe
pause
echo Wait for World to finish loading... Press Enter when done.
pause
start eqlaunch.exe zone
exit

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if anyone requires any other information to help with this i'll be glad to pop that up here as well...

Grimtooth · #2 10-29-2007, 02:10 PM

forgot an important part...

******** LOG FILES *******

---------------------------------------------
[10.29. - 19:28:13] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_debug_zone_4036.log
[10.29. - 19:28:13] [ZONE__INIT] Loading server configuration..
[10.29. - 19:28:13] [ZONE__INIT_ERR] Loading server configuration failed.

this one is from a few hours ago, different from most of the rest
---------------------------------------------
[10.29. - 11:40:29] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_debug_2108.log
[10.29. - 11:40:29] [LAUNCHER__INIT] Loading server configuration..
[10.29. - 11:40:31] [NET__WORLD] WorldConnection connect: Connecting to the server 127.0.0.1:9000 failed: TCPConnection::Connect(): connect() failed. Error: 10061
[10.29. - 11:40:31] [LAUNCHER__ERROR] worldserver.Connect() FAILED! Will retry.
[10.29. - 11:40:31] [LAUNCHER__INIT] Starting main loop...

i did read another post saying where you shouldnt be trying to connect to port 9000, but the majority of these logs the server config is the problem (so it says)

Grimtooth · #3 10-29-2007, 02:17 PM

---------------------------------------------
[10.29. - 20:55:19] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_debug_world_2760.log
[10.29. - 20:55:19] [WORLD__INIT] Loading server configuration..
[10.29. - 20:55:19] [WORLD__INIT_ERR] Loading server configuration failed.

---------------------------------------------
[10.29. - 19:28:18] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_debug_1164.log
[10.29. - 19:28:18] [LAUNCHER__INIT] Loading server configuration..
[10.29. - 19:28:18] [LAUNCHER__ERROR] Loading server configuration failed.

this is the 3rd AND 4th type of log that i have in my folder... the 2nd one you'll notice is from 8 hours ago, and i haven't duplicated that error... the rest of the logs seem evenly split between LAUNCHER_INIT, WORLD_INIT, and ZONE_INIT

stupid Edit timer, sorry for the multiple posts lol

leslamarch · #4 10-29-2007, 03:49 PM

To see what error your getting, and there may be a better way but this is what i do. start run cmd, then goto my eqemu directory and load world.exe or eqlaunch.exe from the dos window, what ever one is closing to fast to get a good lookl at.
Hope this helps a bit
~LL~

Grimtooth · #5 10-29-2007, 04:37 PM

to be honest, that was a great idea... i feel foolish for not thinking about that haha... anyways doing that

c:\eqemu\zone = ZONE_INIT error

& conversly

c:\eqeme\world = WORLD_INIT error

same as the log readouts

i mean in retrospect.. the log files point towards a Config error (i mean, they DO say that straight out... loading server config is where the error occurs) but i copied that config directly from the tutorial... so i'm not really sure what would be wrong with it

Myrakkel · #6 10-29-2007, 07:09 PM

I don't know if it makes a big difference but your loginserver.ini file is using Minilogin and your Config file is using EQEmu.

Grimtooth · #7 10-30-2007, 11:08 AM

just wanted to say that ive gotten a step further...

on the original install I used eqemu server pack 3.6 zip, which apparently contains an older version of the eqemu.exe or something...

anyways, configs load and check fine, now just having some db issues, but at least i know where im going now...

John Adams · #8 10-30-2007, 12:02 PM

If you are trying to setup a private, minilogin server (which it appears due to the reference to the loginserver.ini file), try making these changes to your configs:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grimtooth

*************** INI ********** ***

###Your current configuration is as follows:

loginserver.ini:
[LoginServer]
loginserver=127.0.0.1
loginport=5998
worldname=My Minilogin
worldaddress=127.0.0.1
locked=false
account=
password=

[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=
Unavailzone=
[ChatChannelServer]

worldshortname=
chataddress=
chatport=

[LoginConfig]
ServerMode=Minilogin
ServerPort=5999

***********Config******************

?xml version="1.0">
<server>
<world>
<shortname>Grimtest</shortname>
<longname>My Minilogin</longname>






<loginserver>
<host>127.0.0.1</host>
<port>5999</port>
<account></account>
<password></password>
</loginserver>


<key>some long random string</key>


<http port="9080" enabled="true" mimefile="mime.types" />
</world>


<database>
<host>localhost</host>
<port>3306</port>
<username>root</username>
<password> *not gonna post this* </password>
<db>peq</db>
</database>
</server>

************Batch***************

@echo off
start minilogin.exe
pause
start world.exe
pause
echo Wait for World to finish loading... Press Enter when done.
pause
start eqlaunch.exe zone
exit

*************************
*************************

if anyone requires any other information to help with this i'll be glad to pop that up here as well...

You can get the Minilogin6.2.zip from Sourceforge, I believe.

Check your `variables` table in the PEQ database and ensure the LoginType is "minilogin".

If you are trying to connect to the public LoginServer, the port to eqemulator.net needs to be 5998, not 5999. <-- minilogin

And setting anything in the config between  is commented out. Remove those around the address tags if you want to try them.

Lastly, make sure the launchers table in the database really has a launcher named "zone", or your zones won't start using EQLaunch (though you should still be able to run zone.exe 2 times and get enough zones to move around)

Grimtooth · #9 10-30-2007, 12:02 PM

final update... server up and running

as i said earlier, boy it sure is easier to fix a problem when you know where to start...

Thank you 2 for trying to help me out, it is much appreciated

grim

**wow John, u musta been writing at the same time as me... and yea i read that about the comments in the config file being ignored and set to 'default' values**
I just made a new config when i re-installed the latest version of eqemu

but i really appreciate your posting here