Trying to duplicate another server

[Hugin]

A while back, I joined a group of people doing a persistent world. They already had a bunch of stuff done when I joined, but I think they might have gotten a lot of it from someone who was working on the project before and then dropped it. The reason I say this is because there are references to things involving NWNX and something related to Avlis, yet nobody working on the PW knew anything about it. I'll worry about learning the ins and outs of NWNX later, but for now I'm trying to work on getting my own dedicated linux server up to run a copy of the module so that I can test out new scripts easier. My problem is, I don't really know how to set up the server so that it will run the module properly with all this NWNX stuff (and whatever else may be installed) because our server is hosted by a third party hosting company. I do have some information about our server, but it's not much. It's at this link. If more info is needed, I'd be glad to post it. Thanks a bunch

Also, I have installed RedHat Linux 9 (Shrike) on my test server and I have the Linux NWNDedicated working, but it won't load our module (but it will load other modules). I'm assuming this is because I don't have the proper NWNX stuff installed?

[Hugin]

I've installed NWNX2 and my database is MySQL 4.1 It runs the test modules fine (fully functional, including aps_demo), but when I try to load our module, it gives me:

[Acrodania]

Check your ODBC log also....

Things to look for that cause this:

Do you have all the HAKS in their folders?

Do you have the TLK file in its folder?

Is the module you have the same patch level as the server?

Do you have all the correct database tables in the database? (Don't assume that you only need PWDATA since you didn't write the module, I use at least 20 different tables, and NO my module doesn't auto-create them all since I'm not distributing it....)

[monezz]

In most cases the log file will provide the reason the module wouldn't load.
nwn/logs.0/nwserverLog1.txt
nwn/logs.0/ nwserverError1.txt

0 could be a different number, depending on the number of instances you are running.

[Hugin]

I managed to get it to work for the most part. Messed with a few random things that didn't seem like they'd affect it. But now, it's telling me there's a segmentation fault when I try and load it. Looked around on the internet, and this seems to be a fairly common problem on the linux clients and dedicated servers but it doesn't seem to have a cure. The only cure I found didn't help which involved me checking to make sure my SDL was up to date and it was.

If anyone knows a cure for this apparently "random" problem, please help me out (it does this on a couple other random modules that have nothing in common as well).

Thanks.

[monezz]

I never experienced segfaults with my linux client.
My linux server only has an occasional segmentation fault when I try to shut it down.

Segmentation faults seem to appear more on pre-compiled systems, so you could try to compile affected systems like SDL, MySQL and nwnx from source.

My server switch from pre-compiled (debian) to self-compiled (gentoo) resulted in a far more stable nwn server. But thats just my experience. It could be total bulshit

[Hugin]

I think I did something that's gonna help me in the long run. I formatted and installed XP Pro on my server I hate linux...

[monezz]

[dguntner]

I'm sure the system crackers who want to hack your system and virus writers who want to infect your system will appreciate your change of OS.