Boot5zones.bat wont stay open

[AcidBurn]

Ok i run world and it stays open with no errors i go to run Boot5zones.bat and they pop up then dissapear after they load or get an error i cant tell which how can ig et them to stay up so i can see whats up? ive tried running them from cmd and it does the safe thing, any sugestions will be awsome.

thanx

[Tertiary]

Go to a command prompt, cd to where your zone.exe is and type:

zone . 127.0.0.1 7995 localhost

(or whatever your IPs and port number are)

I.e. omit the 'start' command. This should allow you to see the error that caused it to close.

[AcidBurn]

Just tried to take out the start and it still came up then went away right after

[Tertiary]

So you did Start/Run cmd

cd <wherever>

zone <params>

and your command prompt closed ? That is strange.

[AcidBurn]

ok sorry i did it wrong lol, this is what it came up with when i did it right:

E:\DOCUME~1\KYLE\DESKTOP\EQEMU>zone . **.**.***.*** 7995 localhost
[Status] CURRENT_ZONE_VERSION: EQEMu 0.5.2
[Status] Loading Variables
[Status] Loading zone names
[Status] Loading items
[Status] EMuShareMem loaded
[Status] Loading items from database: count=26659, max id=68199
[Status] Loading npcs
[Status] Loading NPCTypes from database...
[Status] Loading npc faction lists
[Status] Loading NPC Faction Lists from database...
[Status] Loading loot tables
[Status] Loading Loot tables from database...
[Status] Loading doors
[Status] Loading Doors from database...
[Status] FileLoadSPDat() Loading spells from spells_us.txt
[Status] FileLoadSPDat() spells loaded: 4578
[Status] Loading guilds
[Status] Loading factions
[Status] Loading corpse timers
[Status] Loading what ever is left
[Status] Loading commands
[Status] 150 commands loaded
[Status] Loading embedded perl
panic: top_env

[Tertiary]

panic: top_env is a perl problem. See this link or search for top_env on the forums.

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/vie...0409e81bfde593

EDIT: I see you are trying to run a 5.2 server. I assume you have the compatible client for that version and are not patched to live. 5.3DR2 is the most current and works with the current live client.

[AcidBurn]

Kk i had the perl58.dll in the eqemu\bin folder cuz that was the only way it will work how exactly do i tell it that it is in the perl\bin folder, ill have to edit the boot5zones? and make tell it at the top? is that correct? if so i dont knwo the command for it.

[Tertiary]

I've not used the Perl build myself, but one of the posts says to make sure that your \perl\bin directory is at the start of your path, so you could try adding:

set PATH=c:\perl\bin;%PATH%

to the start of boot5zones.bat (amending to where your perl\bin directory actually is). If that doesn't work, all I can suggest is searching the forums for Perl info, or waiting until someone else comes along who has used the Perl build and knows what to do. Good luck.

[AcidBurn]

ok i set that in the beggining of it and it ran it as usual then dissapeared again like it was doing before :(

[Tertiary]

Try reading and doing what Lurker_005 says in the second post on this thread regarding IO::Scalar.

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/vie...ghlight=topenv

[Status] CURRENT_ZONE_VERSION: EQEMu 0.5.2

I feel stupid for not pointing this out but why arent you running 5.3?

[AcidBurn]

going to try that now, if i didnt need the quest and stuff then i dont even have to bother with perl and all teh hassel it is givening me right ?

I may be wrong but I assume that Perl is intigrated into the binaries so you need perl to run the server.

[AcidBurn]

Ok i got the windows to stay open now only prob is loggin on im only useing this for my resource no one else would be loggin on to it but i changed the host.txt and all that got me past one error then i hit another i changed the host again and got past that now i get a error but there is no number it only says EQEmu bad name/password and i have no clue how to fix it, searched through alot of forums and all i saw was ones that were having progs loggin on to other servers not there own, and ideas on this ?

[Lurker_005]

Well it looks like your past rpoblems with IP's but if your running everything on a single computer, all your IP's should be 127.0.0.1

Are you using minilogin? If so you need to read some of the minilogin threads.
If not, make sure you have EQ setup to login to the EQEmu login servers (eqhosts.txt file in your EQ dir) and that you aren't patching EQ when you start it (eqgame.exe patchme)