Dynamic Zones Stuck in Endless Loop

[Uleat]

This will be painful...

Try manually starting (clicking) world.exe

Open a command prompt and start zone.exe

If there is a problem that zone.exe can catch, it will spew it into either the log file, console window or both.

Sometimes a problem will occur before the logging system has a chance to initiate and the only indication will be in the console window.

[strugglegenerator]

Thank you Uleat. Here is what the log file shows:

[06-14-2019 :: 16:00:23] [Zone Server] CURRENT_VERSION: 1.1.3
[06-14-2019 :: 16:00:23] [Zone Server] Mapping Incoming Opcodes
[06-14-2019 :: 16:00:23] [Zone Server] Loading Variables
[06-14-2019 :: 16:00:23] [Zone Server] Loading zone names
[06-14-2019 :: 16:00:23] [Zone Server] Loading items
[06-14-2019 :: 16:00:23] [Zone Server] Loading npc faction lists
[06-14-2019 :: 16:00:23] [Zone Server] Loading loot tables
[06-14-2019 :: 16:00:23] [Zone Server] Loading skill caps
[06-14-2019 :: 16:00:23] [Zone Server] Loading spells
[06-14-2019 :: 16:00:23] [Error] Error Loading Spells: EQEmu Exception (Shared Memory) in C:\projects\eqemu\common\memory_mapped_file.cpp at line (151): Could not map a view of the shared memory file.
[06-14-2019 :: 16:00:23] [Error] Loading spells FAILED!
[06-14-2019 :: 16:02:13] [Zone Server] CURRENT_VERSION: 1.1.3
[06-14-2019 :: 16:02:13] [Zone Server] Mapping Incoming Opcodes
[06-14-2019 :: 16:02:13] [Zone Server] Loading Variables
[06-14-2019 :: 16:02:13] [Zone Server] Loading zone names
[06-14-2019 :: 16:02:13] [Zone Server] Loading items
[06-14-2019 :: 16:02:13] [Zone Server] Loading npc faction lists
[06-14-2019 :: 16:02:13] [Zone Server] Loading loot tables
[06-14-2019 :: 16:02:13] [Zone Server] Loading skill caps
[06-14-2019 :: 16:02:13] [Zone Server] Loading spells
[06-14-2019 :: 16:02:13] [Error] Error Loading Spells: EQEmu Exception (Shared Memory) in C:\projects\eqemu\common\memory_mapped_file.cpp at line (151): Could not map a view of the shared memory file.
[06-14-2019 :: 16:02:13] [Error] Loading spells FAILED!

[Akkadius]

There's a startup script that normally includes running shared_memory and THEN running the launcher. When booting a server you always need to run into shared_memory otherwise you're going to run into issues like this