Vendors now responsible for LL content loss?

"FATAL ERROR: SECOND LIFE IS SCREWED UP YET AGAIN AFTER ITS WEEKLY UPGRADE!"

This isn't a networked vendor that my customer is using. The item's in the contents of the vendor. Everything's there, everything's setup correctly but sometimes it delivers, sometimes it doesn't. There seems to be no pattern to it.

Well, I suspect the bug isn't something that only affects networked vendors/servers.

I would assume that it could affect any prim that had a script in it that calls llGiveInventory.

Might be worth a try...

- Jon

I fair sure that's the facts. The old "server" prim that's doing the non-delivery refuses no matter what - I've even given it a new script to give over inventory on just a click - llGiveInventory silently fails.

Now, I've yet to see such behavior in a post-1.9 rezzed prim. Makes me think this has something to do with the changes made in intersim communications as it relates to delivering to the more central system.

I'm not so sure about this. When I was having trouble with my server, I rezzed a vendor right beside it, and it didn't make any difference. The server clearly got the email message from the vendor, and it clearly ran the line that called llGiveInventory, but it just failed.

I could see it might be an inter-sim comm issue if the server wasn't getting the email, or if the content of the email was borked, but (at least in my case) it clearly wasn't.

- Jon

I've actually got a solid, reproducable bug that has been occuring since 1.9, and I've seen it pop up several times on SLBoutique.com. Basically, llGiveInventory is failing on what would appear to be random items. I walked Phoenix Linden through the bug and she is working on figuring out what is going on.

Now, to understand fully, llGiveInventory isn't failing COMPLETELY randomly, just on what would appear to be random items. Here's an example:

Let's say I'm selling 100 items through SLBoutique. I have 100 items loaded in my in-world prim (similar to a vendor). Out of the 100 items, 99 will always deliver perfectly, as they should. However, 1 out of the 100 items will always fail. I've checked to make sure the avatar's key and item name are being passed 100% correctly (iNcLuDiNg CaPs), but it always fails for just that particular item. There's been no rhyme or reason to this; I've checking for extra spaces, special characters, and it seems to be occuring with random items.

As you can imagine, this has made SLBoutique.com customer service a nightmare lately. Fortunately, it seems to be a very, very small percentage of items, and an item will either be passed successfully 100% of the time, or fail 100% of the time, so its easy to reproduce.

I'm hoping they get this fixed soon. Its a nightmare, especially when you're working on the scale of 35000 - 40000 total items.

Thanks to everyone for bearing with us.

The communications step I mean is the one where the client gets thier object.

Alright. I thought replacing that "server" prim would fix this. And it did. Until today's update.

It just happened to me again. Server works great save for one (tha ti know of) item, which is simply fails to give to the buyer. No message, silent fail. An item it served up yesterday happily.

I'm not going to be replacing my flipping server prim after each update. So someone please tell me when this is going to get fixed.

BUMP - please let us know when this is fixed. Its killing me.

Wasn't this fixed with yesterdays update? I have not noticed any vendor issues since the update...

No, it wasn't and yes I have personally noticed and witnessed said issues post yesterdays update. This needs addressing.

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I'm sure the new marketing guy should be able to help as that's what's probably been holding up the progress on this front.

Marcom is a real word. Hell, it's in my resume.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcom

Paranoia is creepy.

Well, it's an acronym at least. Not sure it's real word. It's just marketing-style speak and that just tends to set most people's teeth on edge. It's nothing to do with paranoia.

Personally I just find it cheesy and pretentious Kind of like shampoo adverts that mix words together and talk about compounds that never existed before and sound really zingy and important. But are actually just marketing-speak rubbish.

Anyway, attacking LL for using exactly the right word to describe the role of a new staff member trivializes the point of this thread, which is that LL has bugs that lead to inventory loss and members are bearing the brunt of it.

Marcom is a real word. Hell, it's in my resume.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcom

Paranoia is creepy.