Zugg Software :: View topic - Fatal Error: Cannot open database in directory

Newbie Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 8

Like the subject says, I'm receinving that message every time I try to run zmud. A bit of background for the problem: a virus infected my computer, and after updating NAV I managed to fix the problem. Afterwards though, I found I couldn't run zmud. I was able to get to the character screen, but when clicking on anything I would get an error dialog box (don't recall what it said, but it was just one word). It occured even when I tried to X or use the quit button. I uninstalled, reinstalled, began getting messages about table level validation, or something similar to that. Uninstalled, reinstalled to a new directory, same problem. Deleted the old directory after copying a few settings files to an uninvolved directory, still had the same problems. I tried running the converter on the mudlisting file, and got a "in table-level validation expression." message. I've tried searching old posts and haven't found anything, but my apologies if I missed a fix for this. Much appreciation for any help anyone can provide.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Seems like chardb.mdb might be corrupted. Try renaming it to something else so zMUD won't find it and creates a new one. At worst, you will have to create each character again. However, since the settings for each character are stored in .mud files, you won't loose those, you will just have to go into the Files tab when editing a character and make sure that the character uses the correct settings file.

Newbie Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 8

Tried that, and I still get the same error during the Main Module loading phase, and it did recreate the file. After clicking okay on that, I get a COM Server Warning message, stating "There are still active COM objects in this application. One or more clients may have references to these objects, so manually closing this application may cause those client application(s) to fail." Selecting yes closes zmud, selecting no gives the messages "Chars: Cannot perform this operation on a closed dataset." I've also noticed that when I have the chardb.mdb file renamed, when I start zmud I get the in "table-level validation expression" message. Zmud also creates a chardb.ldb file that gets removed when I close zmud. So it does seem to be a problem with the chardb.mdb file like you stated, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to want to fix itself quite so simply.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

It might also be MDAC. Go to http://www.zuggsoft.com/data and follow the instructions there. Specifically, get the program to check your MDAC installation.