Problem starting server

[DOLBot]

I came across something rather odd that never happened before. When I try to boot up my server, it goes straight to 'windows is checking for a solution to the program' blah blah blah then goes onto say 'dolserver must close', but the server didn't say a thing. Perhaps because svn has nothing on it?

[Tolakram]

Try rebuilding all?

Do you have the .NET runtime installed on the server?

Did it just start? If so, what changed?

[DOLBot]

Tried rebuilding.

.NET runtime?

[Tolakram]

/slap

Have you run the program on this server before?

DOL is coded in c# .net .net is Microsofts version of java, so to speak. When the code is compiled it doesn't compile down to machine code (direct CPU instructions), instead it compiles down to .net CLR (common runtime language) which the .NET runtime engine executes by translating it into native processor instructions.

If you don't have .NET installed then it will crash because it has no idea how to execute that exe.

edit: corrected some terms

[DOLBot]

It ran before. Just today it had this problem.

[Tolakram]

Ok,

so what changed?

[DOLBot]

I'm using a old core, which is modified a lot. The tortise svn doesn't allow me to update it or anything like that.

[Tolakram]

I'm not getting what you are saying. Tortuous SVN just sits there, you can edit the files if you need to but won't be able to check them back in to the repository you got them from. Of course I have no real idea what you are talking about here or where you got the files.

Apparently the version you have is corrupt. If I had to guess, which i do because of the lack of information, I would say the database and the core don't match and it fails badly while loading up the first table. Either that or it fails while attempting to connect to the database because a config file is wrong. Or it could be that you are missing some critical DLL needed to connect to the database.

In short, it could be anything!

[Aredhel]

If it was a database mismatch he'd at least get the console window, but he doesn't seem to even get there. Your best bet is to load the source into Visual Studio and run debug from there, see where it bails out.

[Graveen]

I fear we can't afford the support of the old core developped long time ago by - certainly talented guys - but really different of what is now.

i50 core ?

[DOLBot]

Database and server are connected correctly. What I mean by tortise svn, is usually you can do a svn update. It doesn't allow me that option.

[Graveen]

it seems there are a problem, btw.

Tortoise is 'something else', in fact.

[Aredhel]

Database and server are connected correctly. What I mean by tortise svn, is usually you can do a svn update. It doesn't allow me that option.

Ok, just for the record: SVN is a version control system, Tortoise is a client "frontend" for SVN. In particular, Tortoise works through context menus only. If you check the Tortoise options on the context menu for the DOL folder, there should be an update option, if there is not, then that folder is not version controlled (at least not by Tortoise SVN).

[DOLBot]

I've figured out something interesting. I dl'd the DoL release, and, it worked, then it ad a error b/c I didn't compile. When I compiled, brings me back to the same problem.

[Tolakram]

What version of .net are you using? What version of visual studio?