SL Error Log... What does this mean?

Ok. I finally located the SL logs in the hidden ~/.secondlife folder.

The debug_info. log says:
SL Log: /home/hp23/.secondlife/logs/SecondLife.log
Second Life version 1.14.0 build 1
Can't get terse CPU information
RAM: 2125283328
OS: Linux 2.6.17-11-generic #2 SMP Tue Mar 13 23:32:38 UTC 2007 i686

Can't get terse CPU information?

The SecondLife.log has some warning entries:
2007-04-18T15:47:11Z WARNING: parseFile: Couldn't open file /home/hp23/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.xml
2007-04-18T15:47:11Z WARNING: parseFile: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/hp23/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.xml
2007-04-18T15:47:11Z WARNING: loadFromFile: Unable to open control file /home/hp23/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.xml
2007-04-18T15:47:11Z INFO: main: Failed to load settings from /home/hp23/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.xml
2007-04-18T15:47:11Z INFO: main: Loading legacy settings from /home/hp23/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.ini
2007-04-18T15:47:11Z INFO: loadFromFileLegacy: LLControlGroup::loadFromFile unable to open.
2007-04-18T15:47:11Z WARNING: parseFile: Couldn't open file /home/hp23/.secondlife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml
2007-04-18T15:47:11Z WARNING: parseFile: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/hp23/.secondlife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml
2007-04-18T15:47:11Z WARNING: loadFromFile: Unable to open control file /home/hp23/.secondlife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml

I have manually looked for the files stated and I can't find them either. Did the SL installer not put them where they need to be? Or are they created by some other script that isn't working?

My config stats are posted at this thread:
/263/5f/176878/1.html

Any help out there? Thanks!

`HP

you may want to try moving .secondlife to something like .secondlifebkup and try starting second life then. If it starts up then you can remove the backup.

the cpu info seems to be rather common, meh.

Ok. I did that. Renamed /.secondlife to /.secondlifebkup and then tried running ./secondlife
Exactly the same errors. The only thing it did is create new /.secondlife folder and the sub-folder /usersettings, where the settings.xml and settings.ini files should be, is still empty.

Where do the settings.xml and settings.ini files come from? Are they in the tarball installation package? or are they created during installation? or are they created during the run sequence?

Does anyone know?

It turns out the whole problem I have been having getting SL to run is that I was trying to run it from a terminal window (CTL-ALT-F1).

When I did it by double-clicking the run file from the desktop (gdm) it worked perfectly!

Maybe we should make a note of that in the FAQs.