08-08-2006 12:30
My hardware details are in Yet Another Newby Needing Help.

I run Kubuntu Linux, and I reciently upgraded from Breezy to Dapper.

I am experiencing several different classes of crashes/failures, most of which have been around for a while, but about that time, I started having mysterious weird partial crashes that I`ve never had before.

The old known failures include the following, all of which obviously relate to Second Life directly:
  1. the client simply exiting with no explanation, often preceeded by massive packet loss
  2. the bandwidth dropping to zero, and nothing works, except that I can turn in place, sometimes with the mini-map turning red, sometimes not
  3. the entire system slowing down so badly that I can barely even move my mouse, sometimes recovering, sometimes becomming #1 above, and sometimes requiring a reset
  4. the entire system just locking up, period [but only when running SL]
  5. possibly others I can`t recall just now.
The new failure is particularly vexing:

Sometimes, for no apparent reason, my input device will simply stop working, and the ONLY way out is a HARD RESET of the system.

This is a total failure of the input device, in that keystrokes, mouse button events, and hot tracking effects are totally GONE, globaly, for the entire system --not even the Caps-Lock, Scroll-Lock and Num-Lock keys work!

What is particularlly vexing is that this is also a partial failure, because the mouse pointer continues to move around the screen properly when I move the mouse, and programs continue to run unaffected, allowing me to see and "hear" poeple and things around me doing and "saying" things, and seeing Instant messages comming in, but being utterly unable to respond to any of it.

It is particularlly frustrating to see instant messages arriving and being unable to tell WHO they are from, much less WHAT they are saying, and KNOWING that the messages will be gone when I relog.

I expect at this point that some of you reading this will have thought "It is the Linux upgrade. Get Windows." Well, it isn`t going to happen, so don`t bother to tell me.

Yes, it is possible that something in the Linux upgrade is doing this, but I am skeptical, as it only happens when the Second Life client is the active-focus application. [Just having it running without foucs doesn`t seem to be enough to trigger the issue.]

Is anyone else experiencing similar issues?



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