I have 3 accounts, call them A, B, and C. Today I'm playing A on machine, #1, and B on machine #2. Character on A dies so I switch accounts on machine #1 from A to C (need to login cleric on 3rd account). While logging in, but before login is complete, I realize I'm re-logging in on account A so I kill the EQ game by clicking on the 'x' Windows button. While doing this I've booted up machine #3. And logged in account A on machine #3. NOW: when I try to login on machine #1, account C, client gives me a warning saying that I'm only allowed to have one account at a time logged in on one machine at a time (this is on Agnarr). I check, and there's only one EQ process running. Thinking the client is bugged I reboot the machine, but have the same problem. Finally, I logout both other machines; machine #2 running account B, and machine #3 running account A. *NOW* I can login account C on machine #2. It seems evident that the server was bugged, not the client, because the problem on machine #1 went away only when I logged off the account that was originally running on machine #1, and now running on machine #3. (I wish I'd thought to logout only machine #3 to confirm that machine #2 was not involved.) I suspect that when I aborted login by killing the window, the server side data structure for the connection was left in an indeterminate state; perhaps it was waiting for a game protocol handshake to complete which couldn't (because the client was dead). I can't be certain if logging out machine #3 was the fix, or, if the server socket to the dead client finally timed out coincident with my shut down of machine #3. It seems clear though that for some period of time the server had two connections to machine #1; the one that was dead but the server didn't know it, and the one that I was currently trying to login using a different account on machine #1
Bump. This happened to another person in my guild this morning. Again, the solution was to log out all machines that had EQ running on them.
