That Zone is Unavailable

[tryit]

Ok, i've got 0.3 running and I can create a new char. I've searched the articles here and only a few have solutions.. and I've tried them all. I get That Zone is Unavailable and of course the zone9x window gripes about the gfaydark.map file not being there. Please help, I know this has to be simple. This is a fresh install, I even went and got the new db.sql everyone here was raving about.

Thanks.:confused:

[pdog]

I'm new to eqemu, but maybe this will help. Using minilogin I was getting the same error message about "zone not available". But when I ran mysql, and left it running in the background, then ran all the other files, I was able to login and enter the zone with no problem. I only tried Freeport, but I assume it works for the other zones too.

[h37lion]

yeah.. you need to definitely be running mysql in the background, so there is worlddata to pull from.. otherwise there won't be any zones up and your server will remain LOCKED

[Shawn319]

yeah.. you need to definitely be running mysql in the background, so there is worlddata to pull from.. otherwise there won't be any zones up and your server will remain LOCKED


I never have to run anything other than world.exe and zones when i bootup a server. I'm in WinXP Pro and mySQL stays in the process list from when i first restart (not the taskbar).

[ninja_looter]

I'm not quite understanding what you are asking. You said that you are able to login, and create a char. So my question is, can you log into world and run around?

Or are you getting the error when you try and #zone [somewhere]

Where are you getting this error?

be sure you are running the correct bootzone file.. 9x is for 98 and ME. maybee copy your greater fay file over from cd, if it is possible.

[tryit]

I login to the world , the character selection screen pop up, and i can create a character, however when I click on that character and try to enter norath, the client comesback and says that the zone isnot available, kind of like the zone is down, the boot5.bat file runs just fine and the world server shows the zoneservers conecting, butt the zone server gripes about not being able to find maps/gfaydark.map, by they way thanks for the attempts at helping so far, ill try to new loginserver tomorrow and see if that helps.

[ninja_looter]

I understand now. sorry for my lack of knowledge in this error, but I want to help everyone if I can.

I don't understand why it is asking for maps/greaterfay.map

that is odd..


My suggestion would be to print out the 0.3.0 readme.txt run through that . Stzarting from fresh. meaning, get rid of your MYSql eq database, and recreating it.. This EMU does work! These guys rock! and do not try and use the new login or minilogin just yet. make sure we can get loged into the other servers first..

I followed the readme backwards, tried minilogin first, and went to eqlogin.EQEMU.org - lmao

[Lurker_005]

First make sure you do NOT have a maps directory where your EQEMU files are. If you do, delete it. Now forget about the maps error, that feature is not used currently.

The fact that you loged in and created a character means you do have mysql running and a database there. There is a possibility your database is messed up though.

Try making a different character. Try a wood elf and something different, human. See if the human logs into freeport or quynos ok. Make sure your running the correct zone servers, your running 95, 98 or ME? and running boot5zones.win9x.bat?

[tryit]

It's go to be something in the loginsever.ini or the boot.bat files, can someone give me a details on all the options of the files. I just blew it all away and installed 2.5 and its doing the same thing.

[meliudaj]

Haveing the exact same issue. I get in, create char (human mage) try to load into begining city (free port) and it dumps me back out to server select screen.

Any Idea suggestions?

Looking at the Zone server messages this is what it reads:

Map: Maps\freportw.map not found.
Reading zhdr file './cfg/freportw.cfg'
Using CFG for safe coords.
Zone safe coords are Blah ## Blah ##
__________________
Zone server 'freportw' listening on port:7997
__________________

Then it goes into auto shut down..

From what it looks to me.. the server isn't finding the maps.

????:confused:

[Shawn319]

maps are NOT required. maps are for pathing that has not been implemented yet.

[Lurker_005]

NO maps are required by the server. The message refers to map files that aren't avaliable, and not needed. Do NOT put any files in a maps directory. Doing so will cause problems.

[meliudaj]

I understand that about the maps (was just posting the messages)

But any ideas? FYI using the normal login works fine.

[Shawn319]

I understand that about the maps (was just posting the messages)

But any ideas? FYI using the normal login works fine.

What OS are you on?

[tryit]

For what ever its worth I installed it on another pc and it works fine with minilogin, I did notice that the faction data wasn't loading.. so I copied the directories from the pc that worked over to the one that didn't and poof it works now.

[meliudaj]

First Question:

I'm running Win 2k Server.


Second: Tryit just gave me an Idea. This could be an issue of File permisions. The database doesn't have permisions to see/maybe edit the files it needs too. As the username and password given to the database on my system are not that of a win 2k user of any type.

This is most likely a stretch but if by coping the same files to these directories but only threw a different means makes it work.. Then permisions sure sound posible!

Will try and check it out over lunch.

[meliudaj]

Well nothing on the file permisions side looks to restrictive (everything in the Everquest Dir and the eqemu Dir Full to everyone)


Still not sure... It just dumps me back to server select when I try to enter world


2k server
Login Server v1.0 ( I know not supported)
eqemu v0.3.0

[tryit]

When I installed it on the second server and got it working I did things a bit different, right out of the box I used the dos version of mysql prompt and did the following mixing it with the directions that came with 3.0 and minilogin 3.0

mysql -u mylogin;
create database eq;
source db.sql;

then I used localhost instead of 127.0.0.1 in all the files except
the boot5 bla bla.bat files, I didn't edit them at all.

ran minilogin then world then boot5.bat

by the way I just renamed boot5zones to just boot5 to save a few keystrokes.

[tryit]

whoops I forgot to say I also typed

use eq;

[meliudaj]

NM

I read your post wrong at first

[Catranis]

I know it's like 23 days late, but I had this problem today, and the solution is easy. All you have to do, is go into your loginserver.ini file and change the localhosts to your ip (I assume it works with login 1.0, cause it's got nothing to do with private login). So the answer was right in the readme. Just remember to read the readme carefully checking your work and use the search function before posting. Most of the posts on this message board are from ppl not reading the readme, or are double posts. Anyways, good luck.