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Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:35 pm
by rez12
I updated to 6.5, and eq2world loads everything up normally, no error messages at least. But my zones list is empty which completely prevents me from being able to log into my server. Any ideas?
Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:04 pm
by LethalEncounter
Try to recreate your database and try again. If you still have issues please let me know.
Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:30 pm
by John Adams
In LoginServer.ini, turn on the verbose logging for auto updates, too. So you can see clearly if something is erroring.
Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:58 pm
by rez12
Yea, I tried recreating again but it still seems to be failing to add certain things. I get an error when checking the visual states as well as the zone table remaining empty. I'm not really sure what is going wrong, could someone perhaps provide a functioning sql of the current or prior database I could try loading to see if it works?
Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:25 am
by John Adams
I do not like delivering DB this way, but since you are having problems and we cannot see your precise errors, here is a full copy of the DB taken a few weeks ago. Source it in, connect, and you should get the newer updates.
eq2db_65.zip
PS: It serves no purpose to simply say "it don't work". We need exact errors, screen shots, pasted console screens or logs, verbose logging on, etc. If a little effort is put in on your part, the problem could actually be solved the right way.
Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:50 pm
by JCL
I get the error to. It creates the 'zones' table but does not add any zones.
Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:11 am
by John Adams
JCL wrote:I get the error to. It creates the 'zones' table but does not add any zones.
Thing is, I still do not know what "the error" is. JCL, perhaps you'll tell me.

Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:38 am
by JCL
Okay here's what I'm getting.
Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:44 am
by John Adams
Thank you JCL. First thing, that CREATE zones table is ancient, not even close to what our zones table looks like now. That's probably the problem, the inserts have more columns now.
I just did a complete new DB a few weeks ago and had no problem building zones. I'll try it again, but that seems odd...
JCL, your Update server is wrong.
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[Status] Connected to Update Server: updates.eq2emulator.net:9103
This is the update server URL for months now. Not sure how major the impact is, but this is not correct.
Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:58 am
by John Adams
Ahh, I see what it's doing. Sorry, I was a little confused. I thought after the DB Update Server changes, we were no longer pushing out ancient table structures, but starting with stuff at a 65000 level. My bad. What it is doing is pushing the original table, then applying all changes made since then (which it is designed to do). There are no FAILED statements, except the one that tries to update characters.current_zone_id, which is the known issue why you have to update twice. Someday I'll convince LE to fix that

just not important right now.
The failure really is in the fact that the zones "Data Updates" are not even bothering to come down at all. After table 'zones' is created, the next thing I would expect to see is the DATA for zones, but nothing. Just moves on to the next table update.
This is probably an LE-level fix. I do not know how to manipulate the DB server updates. This has happened sometime in the last few weeks, too. Because I have a populated zones table from then. We'll get it fixed, thanks for pointing it out.
Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:06 am
by LethalEncounter
Sounds like he has autotabledata set to false in his LoginServer.ini file.
Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:12 am
by JCL
LethalEncounter wrote:Sounds like he has autotabledata set to false in his LoginServer.ini file.
Mine is set to true.
Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:34 am
by John Adams
LethalEncounter wrote:Sounds like he has autotabledata set to false in his LoginServer.ini file.
Nah man. I got the same problem dropping my DB and starting a new one. Got data for all other tables, except zones. No errors either. Just "empty" your DB and reconnect, you should see it too.
Hate to say it, but it is a valid problem

Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:50 pm
by LethalEncounter
Hmm, I must have ran the wrong query or something. Looking at the database, the table was emptied sometime between the 12th and the 15th. I'll have to restore the data from the backup on the 12th. Sorry about that

Re: Updated to 6.5 and Zone data is missing
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:54 pm
by LethalEncounter
It should be good now. If you have any problems let me know.