URGENT help advice -Unable to log in today since 1,2,6

Since 1.2.6 was down for staff only use I am now NOT ABLE to log in to my AV based in Tehama. I can no longer play the game at all.

The load process hangs when it gets to ' Connecting to Region' and never completes.

During this period the hourglass spins away , but no progress, and I cannot use ALT TAB, or CTR/ALT/DEl to shut SL down and must reboot the computer in full every time.

I have tried many times now to log on, and always same stop point on connecting to Region. Any ideas? Is this Tehama Sim down, or what I need URGENT HELP from SL/Kindens please, has 1,2,6 download corrupted? I need HELP as i CANNOT play now.

Help appreciated. I have emailed support also with no reply so far.

Does anyone else have this problem since yesterdays update. Also I cannot IM anyone here .. HOW do i access my PROFILE to change if form this site, I see NO way to do that?

If Tehama is where your home sim is, try logging into "last location". That may work if your AV was in a different sim when logged off. But if that doesn't work, that sounds a little like the issue someone else (cua Curie?) was having yesterday.

there needs to be either an option to login to an arbitrary sim, or some way of bumping you to an on-line sim if the sim yer client tries to load is offline

Problem solved- pls close or move thread to tech
Ok the problem is solved.

What was happening is that v1.2.6 opening program was taking up the full screen and unlike the previous versions which auto minimised at this point, this version is blocking me from seeing the firewall alert permissions produced by zone alarm. The game was locking and refusing to allow ALT-TAB so no way to see or access these but i finally figured out that wondering where they were, gave me clue to what's going on. I have now advance permitted SL in Zone alarm, logged on with my new installed version of 1,2,6 and it works fine. Phew!

Thanks to all those who replied. !!