Trouble Updating Server (7.0-Current)

[John Adams]

I'm having an interesting time updating from Cavedudes 3.52 package to the latest binaries. Being a typical engineer-type, I took the latest bins, extracted them over my (backed up) Emu files, then did all the SQLs in the changelog. Game runs, client connects, but when I enter the world, I get the infamous "Zone Unavailable" message.

Since I do know how to use Search, I found out that one thing that definitely can cause this is not doing the SQLs correct from the changelog. So, I backed everything back to original install (3.52 packager), and put in every binary release (and SQL change) one_rev_at_a_time, logging in fully until I had the problem.

Mine is crapping out on 07/16/2006 patch, binary version EQEmu-0.7.0-833, after running the "ALTER TABLE `traps` ADD `message` VARCHAR( 200 ) NOT NULL AFTER `effectvalue2`;" as it says in the changelog. Now, and until I remove this set of Binaries, I cannot log into the game. (should have started at the end and went backwards, eh?)

Anyone else having this problem with this particular patch? Other than this, things are running wonderfully.


Edit: Actually, I should have tested this first - the Zone Unavailable has nothing to do with the ALTER TABLE `traps`... since I back-revved that table and the game still won't let me in. If I go back to the 828 binaries, all is well. But I am screwed from bin patch 833-840.