ok, when I just use the base files I get this:
Unknown 'compression' setting in db.ini. Expected 'on' or 'off'.
Got signal 0
[Status] CURRENT_WORLD_VERSION:EQEMu 0.5.0
[Status] Loading variables..
Database Error: Lost connection, attempting to recover....
DB Query Error #2006: MySQL server has gone away
Error in LoadVariables query 'SELECT varname, value, unix_timestamp() FROM varia
bles where unix_timestamp(ts) >= 0' #2006: MySQL server has gone away
[Status] Loading zones..
Database Error: Lost connection, attempting to recover....
DB Query Error #2006: MySQL server has gone away
Error in LoadZoneNames query 'SELECT MAX(zoneidnumber) FROM zone' #2006: MySQL s
erver has gone away
[Status] Loading items..
[Status] EMuShareMem loaded
Database Error: Lost connection, attempting to recover....
DB Query Error #2006: MySQL server has gone away
Error in GetItemsCount query 'SELECT MAX(id),count(*) FROM items' #2006: MySQL s
erver has gone away
Error: Database::LoadItems() (sharemem): GetItemsCount() returned -1
[Error] Error: Could not load item data. But ignoring
[LoginServer] block not found in 'LoginServer.ini'.
[Status] Loading guild ranks..
Database Error: Lost connection, attempting to recover....
DB Query Error #2006: MySQL server has gone away
Error in LoadGuilds query 'SELECT id, eqid, name, leader, minstatus, rank0title,
rank1, rank1title, rank2, rank2title, rank3, rank3title, rank4, rank4title, ran
k5, rank5title from guilds' #2006: MySQL server has gone away
[Status] Loading addon.ini..
[Status] Loading EQ time of day..
Database Error: Lost connection, attempting to recover....
DB Query Error #2006: MySQL server has gone away
[Status] Deleted -1 stale player corpses from database
Database Error: Lost connection, attempting to recover....
DB Query Error #2006: MySQL server has gone away
[Status] Deleted -1 stale player backups from database
Abort/retry/cancel?
TCP listening on: port 9000
World server listening on: port 9000
===============================
Runtime errors:
MySQL Error #2005 means you there are too many connections on the mysql server.
The server is overloaded.
For more information on this error, visit
http://www.eqemu.net/eqemuerror.php?id=3
Hit any key to exit
but when I try to edit the ini files in notepad or wordpad, it doesn't recognize the blocks (namely the [Database] block from the db.ini)
A side note, I have tried the fix mentioned, and it didn't seem to help at all
so:
1) I would like to know what you guys use to edit the ini files, since in mine to even have them recognizable, they have to be all on one line
and 2) how can I fix the above errors, since I have redid all the file permissions on everything, this is apparently my only block is the sql server killing the connections when I try to get large databases. I read something in the MySQL site about increasing the buffer (the default is only like 1MB) but I can't seem to get the changes to stick.