Local Server Issues, Login and World.exe
 

Hi-

I've been trying to set up a private server and I've run into some issues. I'm having trouble resolving them after wading through the forums and re-examining the guides. I am very much a rookie.

Windows Vista 32, firewall disabled, no Antivirus, using Xampp and Titanium

I used the following guides:

https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/wiki...,-No-Webserver)

-Except, it was the most recent version, can't link since it was modified last night. Followed by:

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sho...nt=14%E2%88%9E

And when that didn't solve:

http://wiki.eqemulator.org/p?Windows...er_Setup_Guide .

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PROBLEM: Cannot Connect to Server (can't log in)

I am very sure that I followed the steps correctly, and I ticked the appropriate boxes in CMake for a private server as per the guides. I think I've narrowed it down to these questions:

1) I set up the server (gathered and installed programs, mysql etc) prior to installing the EverQuest Client. I am not using the EQEmu launcher. Would that normally be a problem?

2) When I start.bat my server (with MySQL via Xampp ON), loot, spells, and so on (database resources) load successfully. However, I included the necessary steps from the guides to use bots, and I received bot-related errors in my World.exe window. I then decided I didn't care about bots, and sourced dump_bots.sql or what-have-you, but I still get the errors after doing that. Would that prevent me from logging in? (listing the bot errors at the bottom of this post)

3) I can't tell if my server is reaching a point (on starting) when it is ready to be logged into. I do receive the four windows, but they are only present together for about 5 seconds, then I am left with World.exe and a window titled "0: sleeping." Is that normal operation?

I am very confident that my EQEmu_conf, login.ini and eqhost are correctly formatted and point to the correct places and so on. My start.bat does initiate the loginserver prior to the rest. Also, I did add my account to the database successfully with no errors.


/In case you were interested in the bot errors/


ERROR Bot View Discovery: #1146: Table 'peq.vwbotcharatermobs' doesn't exist

Unable to clear-

group leaders
groups
raids
raid details

and x2:

[Error] EQLConfig::LoadSettings: #1146: Table 'peq.launcher_zones' doesn't exist

Then I just keep getting some error regarding AdventureManager GetLeaderboardinfo repeatedly

Thanks guys!

You should have 4 windows (5 if running your own login server): world, queryserv, ucs, eqlaunch - aka. 0:sleeping (and login)

UCS has a tendency to crash, on occasion.


Did you re-run cmake and de-select the BOTS option? (You may need to delete the cache and re-configure/generate...
Someone else was having an issue with that bots message..but, it should not even be in the final code due to being
wrapped in a preprocessing directive.)

Make sure that you also 'clean' your solution in case vs tries to outsmart you.

Still stuck
 

Thanks Uleat.

I reran CMake and deselected the bot tick, and ran it through VS again.

On the subject of VS, I'm using 2010 Express despite the intended OS being for XP, where I'm running Vista instead. Would that be a problem? I haven't had any fails and wouldn't know one of the thousand warnings from another.

Another possibilty struck me-- I found a statement in the forums /somewhere/ here claiming that the most recent DB dump, Oct. 08th (?) .tar.gz is severely lacking and may not work. I don't know if my problem is a DB problem, but I downloaded the one mentioned by name in the guide (Aug. 11th) and I'm still debating whether I should source it and redo my DB. I would just do it, but should I perform a gitpull? Will all this require another CMake and VS runthrough?

Anyway, untouched DB aside, I copied over my new, configured login.ini with no luck. Still the same problems.


I kind of want to jump into #EQEmu IRC for some quick newbie questions so I'll leave it on. I don't think anyone has been in there today though

I'll look into cleaning my sln since VS already has outsmarted me

That db dump issue is old and has been updated, tmk...

VS2010 might be your issue..I thought we were up to VS2012 minimum supported.


On warnings, build a second time to clear up some of those..once the object files are generated, it usually won't espouse quite a
verbose output.

Thanks! I'm thinking VS2010 is the problem too. Thread solved then, good enough for me.