Odd connection issue

[lerxst2112]

Well, I think the problem may be that you said you had a database issue, but it appears to be connecting to the database fine. From the first log you posted it looked like zone was perhaps not starting at all, hence the troubleshooting step.

If you still want to narrow it down, I would recommend cleaning out the logs directory, running everything, and trying to log in. If you get stuck, dig through the logs, which should just be for that attempt, and see if there are any errors. From there you can troubleshoot those issues.

Error messages may be misleading, but if you keep digging you should be able to find the first error and go from there.

[blackdragonsdg]

I am certainly going to continue trial and error testing with this problem. I know how to cause this problem but if I can eliminate it at will it would be helpful in knowing that the solution is correct and not just a fluke.

I had been deleting old log files as I went along to prevent myself from accidentally reading an old log file. You are absolutely correct about how error messages can be misleading.

One of the problems with this error was it never produced a bad session/time stamp error on my Vista machine it only generated that error on the XP machine. Another one was unable to insert character data into the database. Both of those errrors were easily bypassed by manual insertion of the needed data. I was thinking the whole time that I had just made an update mistake which may not have been the case.