For the record, this fixed my issue. It was the same as the original poster's, except I wasn't getting a crash message.
I'm running 0.7.0.988 on Debian Linux with MySQL version 4.1.11 and PEQ for the server, and the client on another machine.
When I would go into a zone, I would go linkdead immediately upon entering into the zone, so I was able to walk around until I timed out. The zone logs weren't showing a crash, but when I went into the web page (
http://172.0.0.1:9080), it would go from saying 7 zones loaded to 0 zones loaded when I zoned in (6 dynamic, 1 static), so it seemed like a crash.
Looked all over the forums and couldn't find much else that was helpful, other than this thread.
I copied Spells_en & Spells_us into my eqemu directory, restarted the zone servers, and was able to log in successfully.