SecondLife won't start

Well... this is strange.

I hopped on this morning just to try out the new release a little bit. It runs very smoothly! Only problem is it didn't draw my avatar at all. It drew attachments fine and as though they were where they were supposed to be, but the avatar itself wasn't there. So, I hit alt+printscreen to get a gnome-screenshot of the window (I've done this several times before... well, now that I look at those pictures, I didn't actually use ALT+printscreen, just printscreen). What happened next was bizaare, and difficult to describe.

SecondLife was still open, as was everything else. If I clicked outside the window, it didn't change focus. If I clicked another app on the taskbar, it highlighted itself as though focusing for just a second then switched back to SecondLife. I clicked around in there a bit, and hit an object (just plain left-click), which opened the build dialog. (I may have hit the build button somehow directly before, though.) I could ctrl+alt+F1 to a virtual terminal, but if I logged in, it didn't start BASH.

If X.org had frozen, that would be one thing, but this is just odd. Anyway, it's more serious now: I had to use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill X, and now SecondLife won't start up. So, I reinstalled SL. No joy. Rebooted the box. No joy.

I'm on SuSE 10 with Gnome and had no problems of this sort with the last version. I'm not running any user modifications to SL such as the alpha channel hack.

Edit: I just remembered right after I posted that when I switched to VT1 while the system was acting weird, it wouldn't bring up BASH, but I went ahead and said "ps -Af" in case it changed its mind. gnome-screenshot WAS actually running, so I don't know if it's a SL problem, a Gnome problem, or a combination of the two... either way, SecondLife won't start now no matter what I do.

Edit 2: Also, I'm switching to Ubuntu Breezy tonight; ASU campus tech support has been getting people with illegitimate copies of Windows to switch to Ubuntu (with some success), and being the LUG president I figure I should know my way around what everyone's using. Anyway, I'm certain that will fix the problem (if not, ... wow.) but if there are any ideas posted I'll make sure to give them a shot before I wipe everything out. AGAIN, if you want to try to recreate this, just hit alt+printscreen when SecondLife is focused under Gnome 2.12, but beware, it'll mess your SL up.

Here's the output:

jeff@linux:/data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7> ./secondlife
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z WARNING: LLDir_Linux not fully implemented!
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: QUEUED THREAD STARTING
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: QUEUED THREAD STARTING
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: QUEUED THREAD STARTING
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Checking marker file for lock...
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Marker file isn't locked.
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Checking marker file for lock...
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Marker file created.
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Removing message.log
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Exiting init_marker_file().
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Opening debug file /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/SecondLife/logs/debug_info.log
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Second Life version 1.8.4
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Local time: 2006-03-03T08:14:53 EST
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: CPU info:
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z processor  : 0 vendor_id   : AuthenticAMD cpu family      : 6 model                : 6 model name  : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ stepping     : 2 cpu MHz              : 1734.315 cache size   : 256 KB fdiv_bug       : no hlt_bug            : no f00f_bug   : no coma_bug   : no fpu                : yes fpu_exception     : yes cpuid level       : 1 wp          : yes flags            : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 3471.76
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Memory info:
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z MemTotal:       515780 kB MemFree:        141648 kB Buffers:         38108 kB Cached:         203760 kB SwapCached:          0 kB Active:        182808 kB Inactive:       160412 kB HighTotal:           0 kB HighFree:           0 kB LowTotal:       515780 kB LowFree:        141648 kB SwapTotal:   1052248 kB SwapFree:      1052248 kB Dirty:             392 kB Writeback:       0 kB Mapped:         170860 kB Slab:            20756 kB CommitLimit:   1310136 kB Committed_AS:   169588 kB PageTables:       1796 kB VmallocTotal:   507896 kB VmallocUsed:     12664 kB VmallocChunk:   493384 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free:      0 Hugepagesize:     4096 kB
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: OS info: Linux 2.6.13-15.7-default #1 Tue Nov 29 14:32:29 UTC 2005 i686
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Loading feature tables.
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Using configuration file /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/SecondLife/user_settings/settings.ini
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: LLControlGroup::loadFromFile unable to open.
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Loading art table from viewerart.ini
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Loading base colors from colors_base.ini
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Loading user colors from colors.ini
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Default vfs data file not present, found /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/SecondLife/cache/.
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Old salt: 1008762256
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z WARNING: Bad or missing vfx index file /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/SecondLife/cache/index.db2.x.1008762256
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z WARNING: Removing old vfs data file /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/SecondLife/cache/.
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Renaming /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/SecondLife/cache/. to /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/SecondLife/cache/data.db2.x.414762140
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Renaming /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/SecondLife/cache/index.db2.x.1008762256 to /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/SecondLife/cache/index.db2.x.414762140
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Pre-sized VFS data file to 524288000 bytes
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: VFS: Using index file /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/SecondLife/cache/index.db2.x.414762140 and data file /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/SecondLife/cache/data.db2.x.414762140
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: VFS: Using index file /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/app_settings/static_index.db2 and data file /data1/jeff/SecondLife_1_8_4_7/app_settings/static_data.db2
2006-03-03T13:14:53Z INFO: Initializing window...
2006-03-03T13:14:54Z INFO: createContext: creating window 800x600x32
2006-03-03T13:14:54Z INFO: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
2006-03-03T13:14:54Z INFO: Unloading all GL symbols...
2006-03-03T13:14:54Z WARNING: OSMessageBox: Window creation error
2006-03-03T13:14:54Z INFO: Unloading all GL symbols...
2006-03-03T13:14:54Z WARNING: LLWindowManager::create() : Error creating window.2006-03-03T13:14:54Z WARNING: Unable to create window, be sure screen is set at 32-bit color in Control Panels->Display->Settings
2006-03-03T13:14:54Z INFO: remove_marker_file()

On a whim, I loaded up Unreal Tournament 2004. OpenGL problem, it said. So I tried glxgears.

Ooooooh, horrendus framerate! It would seem I've managed up bork my nvidia drivers. So never mind, it's not a SecondLife problem.

As for not drawing the avatar at all, I have the same problem if the Avatar Vertex Program is enabled (which it is by default).