Can't boot up newbie zone

[kawless]

I can login and create characters, but when I try to Enter World, the client pauses for a bit then tells me the zone didn't start and I should try to Enter World again.
Afterward the character in the client is now shown with a lamp and a newbie weapon.

The world_4540.log:

[05-14-2025 23:03:55] [World] [Info] Validating char creation info
[05-14-2025 23:03:55] [World] [Info] Found [SoFStartZoneID] rule setting [-1]
[05-14-2025 23:03:55] [World] [Info] SoF Start zone query: [SELECT x, y, z, heading, start_zone, bind_id, bind_x, bind_y, bind_z FROM start_zones WHERE zone_id = 29 AND player_class = 9 AND player_deity = 214 AND player_race = 2  AND (min_expansion <= 9 OR min_expansion = -1) AND (max_expansion >= 9 OR max_expansion = -1) AND ((content_flags IS NULL OR content_flags = '') OR CONCAT(',', content_flags, ',') REGEXP ',(don_nest_unlocked),' )  AND ((content_flags_disabled IS NULL OR content_flags_disabled = '') OR CONCAT(',', content_flags_disabled, ',') REGEXP ',(peq_halloween|frostfell|eq_anniversary),' ) ]
[05-14-2025 23:03:55] [World] [Info] SoF Start zone query: [SELECT x, y, z, heading, start_zone, bind_id, bind_x, bind_y, bind_z FROM start_zones WHERE zone_id = 29 AND player_class = 9 AND player_deity = 214 AND player_race = 2  AND (min_expansion <= 9 OR min_expansion = -1) AND (max_expansion >= 9 OR max_expansion = -1) AND ((content_flags IS NULL OR content_flags = '') OR CONCAT(',', content_flags, ',') REGEXP ',(don_nest_unlocked),' )  AND ((content_flags_disabled IS NULL OR content_flags_disabled = '') OR CONCAT(',', content_flags_disabled, ',') REGEXP ',(peq_halloween|frostfell|eq_anniversary),' ) ]
[05-14-2025 23:03:55] [World] [Info] Found starting location in start_zones
[05-14-2025 23:03:55] [World] [Info] Current location zone_short_name [tutorialb] zone_id [189] x [18.00] y [-147.00] z [20.00] heading [64.00]
[05-14-2025 23:03:55] [World] [Info] Bind location zone_short_name [tutorialb] zone_id [189] x [18.00] y [-147.00] z [20.00] heading [64.00]
[05-14-2025 23:03:55] [World] [Info] Home location zone_short_name [halas] zone_id [29] x [141.00] y [271.00] z [9.38] heading [64.00]
[05-14-2025 23:03:56] [World] [Info] Character creation succeeded for [Baconer]
[05-14-2025 23:03:56] [World] [Client Login] Online status [blarg] (1) status [CharSelect] (3)
[05-14-2025 23:03:56] [World] [Info] Attempting autobootup of [tutorialb] [189] [0]
[05-14-2025 23:03:56] [World] [Info] No zoneserver available to boot up
[05-14-2025 23:03:57] [World] [Info] Attempting autobootup of [tutorialb] [189] [0]
[05-14-2025 23:03:57] [World] [Info] No zoneserver available to boot up
[05-14-2025 23:03:57] [World] [Info] Attempting autobootup of [tutorialb] [189] [0]
[05-14-2025 23:03:57] [World] [Info] No zoneserver available to boot up

In Spire under Server Processes, zones are shown as offline, occasionally hitting 14 for a moment, then going back to offline.
Login Server and Query Server are offline.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[kawless]

It turns out Perl wasn't not in the PATH.
The Perl installer had the Repair option, so I selected that, and now I can log in properly!