Quest / Perl Error

[kedra]

Hrm. Tried messing with that - no luck.

[LostZaphod]

Did you run the perl program "ppm.exe" ?
and then issue these commands?

Install DBI
Install DBD-mysql
Install IO-stringy

[kedra]

Yea, I've done that, for what it's worth. I've set up plenty of servers in the past. I think maybe one component was updated and is causing some sort of incompatibility? I've restored my archived server which I know for a fact functioned just fine. I know that db + copy of zone/world are all compatible. I'm thinking the problem is with perl, but who knows...

[Xavius]

Not sure if this helps any or not, but I recently switched my server to a new machine, downloaded the latest source and compiled without any modifications, when I logged in none of my NPC's responeded to any hail's at all... switched back out and installed with a clean 'pre-compiled' version (think it was v1077) and everything worked fine with hails and all quests... retried with a compile of the latest source and no hails worked... at this point I ran out of available time for checking into this more thoroughly. If i find anything further I'll post back.

Rage
Elysium Server Owner

[kedra]

Thanks for the info. I'll give 1077 a shot and see if there is any improvement.

[kedra]

Same issue. I've tried several of the precompiled binaries including the newest as well as some older ones that I know I had working something... Hrm... Wonder what it could be.

[dilxar]

Has anyone found any resolution to this issue? I'm having the same exact problem I'm just about to throw in the towel after days of working on it. Everything works perfectly except the quests. I get the same error in log files "perl runtime error: Undefined subroutine &main::eval_file called" for every single quest. Perl works fine outside of EqEmu, MySql words fine, the peq database is all up-to-date. Quest just won't work. Please please if anyone has found a fix for this please post it. Thank you!

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[cole89103]

again install dbd-mysql and io-stringy via the ppm perl package manager as instructed here

http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...ka=ws992mysql5

if you follow that you wont have any problems

[Babul]

I am having problems to have quest work aswell, i noticed in the log there is something that tell server cannot read the files.. but I have the quest in the quest directory C:\EQSERVER\quests\

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[09.13. - 01:10:59] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_quest_zone_2824.log
[09.13. - 01:10:59] Tying perl output to eqemu logs
[09.13. - 01:10:59] Creating EQEmuIO=HASH(0x4086600)
[09.13. - 01:10:59] Creating EQEmuIO=HASH(0x4090ec4)
[09.13. - 01:10:59] Loading perlemb plugins.
[09.13. - 01:10:59] Loading perl commands...
[09.13. - 01:10:59] Subroutine GetSkill redefined at (eval 12) line 1.
[09.13. - 01:26:59] Unable to read perl file 'quests/freportw/player.pl'
[09.13. - 01:26:59] Unable to read perl file 'quests/templates/player.pl'
[09.13. - 01:51:12] Unable to read perl file 'quests/freportn/player.pl'
[09.13. - 01:51:12] Unable to read perl file 'quests/templates/player.pl'
[09.13. - 01:59:48] Unable to read perl file 'quests/nektulos/player.pl'
[09.13. - 01:59:48] Unable to read perl file 'quests/templates/player.pl'
[09.13. - 02:11:44] Unable to read perl file 'quests/innothule/player.pl'
[09.13. - 02:11:44] Unable to read perl file 'quests/templates/player.pl'
[09.13. - 02:44:19] Unable to read perl file 'quests/feerrott/player.pl'
[09.13. - 02:44:19] Unable to read perl file 'quests/templates/player.pl'
[09.13. - 02:48:47] Unable to read perl file 'quests/oggok/player.pl'
[09.13. - 02:48:47] Unable to read perl file 'quests/templates/player.pl'
[09.13. - 02:52:00] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/nexus/player.pl line 15.
[09.13. - 02:52:00] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/nexus/player.pl line 15.
[09.13. - 03:17:56] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:17:56] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:17:56] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:06] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:06] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:06] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:06] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:06] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:06] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:16] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:16] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:16] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:16] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:16] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:16] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:26] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:26] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:26] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:26] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:26] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:18:26] Use of uninitialized value in numeric ne (!=) at quests/greatdivide/player.pl line 9.
[09.13. - 03:22:17] Unable to read perl file 'quests/thurgadinb/player.pl'
[09.13. - 03:22:17] Unable to read perl file 'quests/templates/player.pl'
[09.13. - 03:26:45] Unable to read perl file 'quests/jaggedpine/player.pl'
[09.13. - 03:26:45] Unable to read perl file 'quests/templates/player.pl'
[09.13. - 03:34:50] Unable to read perl file 'quests/natimbi/player.pl'
[09.13. - 03:34:50] Unable to read perl file 'quests/templates/player.pl'
[09.13. - 03:47:21] Unquoted string "respawn" may clash with future reserved word at quests/warslikswood/Lurking_Hopeful.pl line 26.
[09.13. - 03:47:45] Unable to read perl file 'quests/warslikswood/player.pl'
[09.13. - 03:47:45] Unable to read perl file 'quests/templates/player.pl'
[09.13. - 03:56:25] Unable to read perl file 'quests/cabeast/player.pl'
[09.13. - 03:56:25] Unable to read perl file 'quests/templates/player.pl'
[09.13. - 05:36:18] Terminating on signal SIGHUP(1)

The quest are there but I dont see on any quest directory that player.pl file that the server is looking for?

Is the eqemu_config file file in need to have a full path for the quests directory since i am not using the eqemu default directory for the server?

But still I dont see these player.pl files bu the quest pl files are in the directory.

Any help would be very appreciated thanks

[Sylaei]

I'm not sure what could be the issue, but that said, it looks like the quests are not in the folder the server is looking in. In the main server folder, you should have a 'quests' folder. All the quests are in subfolders under that one. My only suggestion is to double then triple check your paths. check for 'spaces' before the folder name. You may want to use a dos prompt to do the checking. Windows explorer is hard to use to see spacing and such. Oh and check the paths one more time.