Disappearing Island and other woes

Since the 1.5 "upgrade", my island, Paradise, has been virtually unusable.
First, it was a total chaos with clothes not changing, objects disappearing and other mysterious happenings.
Creating/building was just too scary.

Then yesterday, the island was simply not there anymore !
Sunken into the ocean like Atlantis.

After half a day, it reappeared, and a Linden happily announced that it was all fixed.
Seems they "fixed" the telehub too, because since then, noone has been able to go there.

For more than 24 hours, the island has been totally closed and inaccessible.

As the rest of the grid seems to work I find that totally unacceptable. And although I've spoked to a few Lindens,
there has been NO information as to what 's going on.

Am I the only island with these problems ???
I've TPed to a lot of the others which seems to run fine.


Well, guess I just have to sit back, wait, and pay my fee's
for something I can't use.

/RR

No you are not alone. I rent land from a friend and her sim, LaLa Land, has completely disappeared from the grid. She is offline at the moment because she is moving, so I am not sure if she is aware, but there is a bunch of us that have houses there and it is not possible to teleport there. The sim does not appear on the grid at all if I bring up the landmark there is just empty water where the sim used to be.
Not really sure what to do...

Center Camp had the same problems yesterday. That, I think, was why Burning Life was extended.

I tried a few times to get there and ended up in limbo and having to set my login to home to get back into SL

I have not built much in the last few days, have had scripts that won't compile and save.

Bare with it. I know it is far from ideal but in over a year of play, this is the first time I have seen this scale of problem. It will be fixed.

Running Mac OS X 1.5.1 with monster dual G5, Radeon 9600 and at least 3.7Mbs bandwidth on the cable modem.... so the probs are not with this user...

Also, in addition to the Paradise telehub being down, I am also seeing "Missing Image" graphics on the SL Map. Spoke to a Linden yesterday about Paradise. Initially he indicated 'no prob'... but witin 30 seconds came back with an IM admitting, yes it is down. Been trying to tp to Paradise. The tp either comes back with an 'out of order' message or freezes SL - causing me to 'force quit' SL and relaunch.

No audio streaming with 1.5.1 either. Sent bug report on that, too.

weird thing is, Paradise at least appears on the map, you just can't port to it - LaLa Land however has gone off the map. It's not on the list of regions, and if I bring up my Landmark, it shows on the map as over water, no sim there at all.

Bah.

Our island of Chatsubo is now fixed, and I got a good explanation of what's going on. I haven't asked permission to repost the reply, so I'll paraphrase it in my own words.

As of 1.5, there is a notion of an "Estate Owner" separate from the owner of the land on the island. Anybody can own land on the island but only the Estate owner can use the Estate tool.

We had a case where the AV who wound up being the Estate owner wasn't a member of the group that owned all the land. The island wasn't visible at that time, and presto! Nobody could get to the island who didn't have their home set there.

A busted island has to be fixed by the Estate Owner. They have to go in and either set the island visible in the Estate tool, or add a bunch of people and/or groups to the "Allowed" list. If an island's invisible, access is only possible via either having one's home there, or being on the Estate tool's access list. Landmarks won't work any more.

Oh, and the Estate Owner has to be a member of a group in order for him to be able to add that group to the access list. Our Estate Owner AV was little-used and we'd forgotten to add it to the group that owned all the land. A recipe for disaster.

It sounds to me like someone needs to go out into RL and snag the owner of LaLa Land and get her onto a terminal. Only the Estate Owner AV can fix this stuff.

hmm. There is no group involved here so I know nothing about the group land issue....I suspect that isn't whats going on, but I dunno....but no, my home is not set to the land, I just have a Landmark set to the spot where it is. LaLa is back this weekend I *think* so I guess otherwise we will have to wait until then for her to fix it or at least make sure all the people who have land rented there are on the access list.

anyway the sim was visible prior to the update, and had been for about 6 weeks ever since LaLa bought the sim.