won't go past preparing inventory
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Alexis Manilow
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Join date: 4 Jan 2005
Posts: 18
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01-04-2005 15:01
Hello, has anyone had a problem running Second Life the first time? I just donwloaded it and it stuck at preparing onventory. Is it supposed to do this?
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Siobhan Taylor
Nemesis
Join date: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 5,476
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01-04-2005 15:04
We have a bug presently that causes that for everyone.
Leave it, and eventually it should connect.
They plan a 6 hour shutdown on Thursday to correct the problem.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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Join date: 22 Dec 2003
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The problem is worse than just being slow at preparing inventory.
01-04-2005 15:23
I just let my login process occur and instead of succeeding after a long wait it produced the "our best efforts" message. Last night I spent hours on failed logins attemps in which it either produced that message or just reverted to the initial connect screen. A number of these failed attempts made it through the preparing inventory stage but failed to progress through the connecting to region part of the process.
A number of people are having a worse problem than just a few minute wait at the preparing inventory process. They are having a worse problem than a 45 minute wait at the preparing inventory stage. They are having the problem of being completey unable to connect despite giving the system all the time it wants and retrying for hours.
My second attempt to login has also failed with the "our best efforts" message.
It would be nice if responses to reports of login problems displayed an awareness that many of those who are reporting problems are aware of the queue system being expected to take several minutes and are reporting the more serious problems that I am having.
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Bonecrusher Slate
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Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 337
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01-04-2005 15:30
From: SuezanneC Baskerville I just let my login process occur and instead of succeeding after a long wait it produced the "our best efforts" message. Last night I spent hours on failed logins attemps in which it either produced that message or just reverted to the initial connect screen. A number of these failed attempts made it through the preparing inventory stage but failed to progress through the connecting to region part of the process.
A number of people are having a worse problem than just a few minute wait at the preparing inventory process. They are having a worse problem than a 45 minute wait at the preparing inventory stage. They are having the problem of being completey unable to connect despite giving the system all the time it wants and retrying for hours.
My second attempt to login has also failed with the "our best efforts" message.
It would be nice if responses to reports of login problems displayed an awareness that many of those who are reporting problems are aware of the queue system being expected to take several minutes and are reporting the more serious problems that I am having. I second this. I've tried 4 times in a row now (waiting to clear the queue) and get dumped with the 'our best efforts' message as well. 20 minutes wasted on an attempt to log in...Time to go do something else- it's likely busted again. -Bone |
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Siobhan Taylor
Nemesis
Join date: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 5,476
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01-04-2005 15:36
I think the Lindens are aware of it now... at least, it was being discusses in the irc channel, and several Lindens were present. Apparantly it makes Phoenix a very sad panda. Anyway, my appologies for not knowing when I originally replied. It is a known issue though, and I suspect they're doing all they can to correct it.
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Aaron Levy
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Join date: 3 Jun 2004
Posts: 2,147
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01-04-2005 15:44
Well I've been trying to get in for close to two hours now. Hopefully those Lindens in IRC will leave IRC and fix something permanantly.  |
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Siobhan Taylor
Nemesis
Join date: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 5,476
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01-04-2005 15:45
There's a scheduled downtime on Thursday for just that reason.
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Sunshine Solvang
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Join date: 16 Sep 2004
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Oh Well
01-04-2005 15:50
Been trying for the past hour and all i get is prep invet then the error of dispite our best efforts... Now it's doing the same thing within just a minute of trying to log on.... I have tried waiting and always get kicked back to login or get error message..... SL is the best, but it's frustrating.... Ya'll have a great day!! Hope it works soon!!
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Guilty Codesmith
Second Life Resident
Join date: 18 Nov 2004
Posts: 5
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01-04-2005 15:57
so the game is down until thursday? wtf?
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Siobhan Taylor
Nemesis
Join date: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 5,476
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01-04-2005 15:58
nono, just the login server is currently overloaded. keep trying or wait a while and try again.
there will be a fix on thursday to try to stop the problem recurring
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Alexis Manilow
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Join date: 4 Jan 2005
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crashed after 5 minutes?
01-04-2005 18:39
Well I let the game run and it seems to have crashed for me. When it came back up it gave me a device driver seems to have failed message.
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