server move and zone not starting

[Uleat]

For ref: https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/blob...eddb.cpp#L1213


Looks like you should be getting 3 messages on a failure:

Log.Out(Logs::General, Logs::Zone_Server, "Loading npc faction lists");
Log.Out(Logs::General, Logs::Error, "Error Loading npc factions: %s", ex.what());
Log.Out(Logs::General, Logs::Error, "Loading npcs faction lists FAILED!");

Pretty sure General/Error should be defaulted to console and file outputs.

If you're not getting those..it may be in the assignment of nullptr to the unique_ptrs in the pre-try/catch code..or, for some reason, it's crashing harder that the error
handler can handle...


Doing some minor searches on the unique_ptr hypothesis..not catching too many direct results.


EDIT: Try deleting all of the files in your 'shared' directory and re-run shared_memory.exe to see if that helps.

Does this error occur every time?

[jdoran]

Thanks for that last suggestion. Remaking shared memory will allow zone to stay running. I see activity from the world server (up to "Processing connection") but there are no zone processes. I recall in the past that there would be around 5 zone processes created at server launch. Eqlaunch says nothing. It is sitting the the main loop with an empty zone list.

Trying to enter the world results in "that zone isn't available".

Manually launching zone used to work, so I fired up one. There was only one line of output when a character tried to enter the world:

[Zone Server] Time Broadcast Packet: EQTime [01:43 am]

It just sat there and eventually timed out. Stopping the firewall had no effect.


Oh, and yes the error occurs every time.

The last thing logged by the world server is a message saying that I passed the banned ip check. Processing connection.


Oh and one more random piece of info: I suspect some sort of database issue. I'm using the PEQ database 8/2015, and I manually added all sql in the utils/sql/git/required with a later date. But I'm not seeing logsys categories which was from 1/2015.