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Cannot connect to DBserver

Father Xmas

By Father Xmas,
Posted on: 2009-07-10 15:54 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

I can log into the server choice page but when i try to pick a server i get the "Can't connect to DBserver"

Please add the DBserver to the server page so i can see if this is a problem you are aware of.

Oh yeah and fix the problem

 

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How are we, your fellow players, supposed to fix the problem?

The DBserver is the DataBase server.

I'd recommend starting with Zloth's ++ Common Solutions & Posting Guidelines ++ thread that is stickied in this forum.

Secondly, post a log from running CoH Helper as it will give information about your system and the CoH installation and settings.

Thirdly, post a log from running HijackThis. This will show what else is going on on your computer while you are playing CoH.

Please do not put the output from CoH Helper or HijackThis inside the Quote tags as it removes the formatting of the output and makes it more difficult to easily see problems.

EDIT: Just so you don't think I'm just being snarky, if you look at the description under Technical Support and Bugs on the main page of the forums you will see the following:

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Discuss technical questions and/or bugs here! This is NOT a forum where official technical/QA support is available. To report a bug use the /bug command in game. For technical assistance email support@coh.com.



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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

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Texas, that's like that FBI warning on VHS tapes and DVDs, and the instructions flight attendants give before a flight: Nobody reads/listens to them.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's a firewall issue, with a nod to a possible ISP blockage situation. Probably will wind up having to also do the Net Info Tool, but I'll await the other logs first.


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Flight attendants give instructions? Hmmm. Guess I'll have to pay a bit more attention next time I fly.

Of course, it would be easier for me to pay attention to them if they went back to hiring Stewardesses like they did in the good old days.

Then again, I probably wouldn't be paying any attention to what they were saying due to paying attention to the effects breathing has on the female figure.

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

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Hi folks!

Just throwing my two cents worth in here. I was having the exact same issue as the OP. It seemed to me that it had to be a firewall issue and after quite a while, I determined that it was.
My firewall was blocking all UDP traffic CoH was generating on port 7000. That appears to be the DB server. Then I was stuck after I chose a character. Couldn't connect to Map server. That appears to be on port 7005.
I customized a firewall rule to allow UDP traffic on those two ports and so far so good.
Hope this helps!

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Flight attendants give instructions? Hmmm. Guess I'll have to pay a bit more attention next time I fly.

Of course, it would be easier for me to pay attention to them if they went back to hiring Stewardesses like they did in the good old days.

Then again, I probably wouldn't be paying any attention to what they were saying due to paying attention to the effects breathing has on the female figure.

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Just for you, although it's not their breathing that's attention getting...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHnqn...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKiVCkE0dDw
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_aXz...eature=related
AND... this is just odd, but cute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gusqa...mp;feature=fvw

You're welcome.

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Thanks, I needed that after today.

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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Go to Youtube and do a search for Air New Zealand Safety Video and then sort it by view count. The first one is an interesting example on how get the attention of passengers. I'm not direct linking it for obvious reasons once you see the description.

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Nice job! That's pretty recent, yeah?

Wasn't all that bad though... nothing to see here, move along..

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Flight attendants give instructions? Hmmm. Guess I'll have to pay a bit more attention next time I fly.

Of course, it would be easier for me to pay attention to them if they went back to hiring Stewardesses like they did in the good old days.

Then again, I probably wouldn't be paying any attention to what they were saying due to paying attention to the effects breathing has on the female figure.

[/ QUOTE ]

Just for you, although it's not their breathing that's attention getting...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHnqn...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKiVCkE0dDw
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_aXz...eature=related
AND... this is just odd, but cute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gusqa...mp;feature=fvw

You're welcome.

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So... in the 60's and 70's the idea was to make airlines a flying version of Hooters. Got it.

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Yes. Yes it was. But then something happened. They got older. And so they decided that they didn't/couldn't do the Hooters thing anymore, but still wanted to be flight attendants. That, and guys for some reason decided it'd be a cool thing to do too. And so now we got business type suits or polos. Yay progress.

August 31, 2012. A Day that will Live in Infamy. Or Information. Possibly Influence. Well, Inf, anyway. Thank you, Paragon Studios, for what you did, and the enjoyment and camaraderie you brought.
This is houtex, aka Mike, signing off the forums. G'night all. - 10/26/2012
Well... perhaps I was premature about that whole 'signing off' thing... - 11-9-2012