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Wine / Windows client wont start. Did before.
Kornscope Komachi
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Join date: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 1,041
10-01-2006 00:44
How can I find out why the windows client, run with wine, won't run. Where do I look.
It starts to run and then dies. It worked before.
I need to upload.
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Theora Aquitaine
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Join date: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 266
10-01-2006 07:49
From: Kornscope Komachi
How can I find out why the windows client, run with wine, won't run. Where do I look.
It starts to run and then dies. It worked before.
I need to upload.


The new linux client supports uploads.
Kornscope Komachi
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Join date: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 1,041
10-01-2006 18:02
From: Theora Aquitaine
The new linux client supports uploads.

Mine does not. A dialogue appears but not a file selector. Only cancel is avaliable.
(yep, 1.12.1.13)
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Drake Bacon
Linux is Furry
Join date: 13 Jul 2005
Posts: 443
10-01-2006 20:12
To upload:
  1. Save your image as a TGA. Save your audio as a WAV.
  2. Make a copy, naming the copy upload.tga or upload.wav
  3. Move said copy to SecondLife/your_name/ (your_name is in lower case)
  4. Hit Upload Image/Audio.


Tofu Linden did say it would be a very crude hack. Guess what this is? A very crude hack.

Hopefully by next week we'll have a SL-skin file selector.
Kornscope Komachi
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Join date: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 1,041
Excellent!
10-02-2006 03:24
Thanks for that Drake Bacon. I would never have thought of doing that way.
Now it seems there is no need for a windows/wine client. I LIKE it!
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Tofu Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 471
10-02-2006 05:56
Hi!
From: Drake Bacon
Hopefully by next week we'll have a SL-skin file selector.
The 'real' dialog support is coming along nicely but I don't think it'll be in good enough shape for this week's release.
Zi Ree
Mrrrew!
Join date: 25 Feb 2006
Posts: 723
10-02-2006 06:28
Last night I was able to pull through a bigger build job using only the Linux client for the first time. It was an awesome experience, and the upload.(tga|wav|bvh) is only a minor inconvenience compared to having to use cedega and sacrifice FPS :)

The most annoying thing for me on the Linux client right now is that it seems to leak memory. Over time (3 or 4 hours) it becomes slower and eventually starts to stutter and jerk while camming around. From experience I know it's a good time to restart the client by then, or otherwise my system will grind to a halt soon, requiring a kill -9 secondlife-bin from a remote console.

Keep up the great work, Tofu! I hope to see you at the regular LUG meeting some time in the future :)
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Merrick Moose
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Join date: 20 Oct 2005
Posts: 191
10-02-2006 13:52
From: Zi Ree

The most annoying thing for me on the Linux client right now is that it seems to leak memory. Over time (3 or 4 hours) it becomes slower and eventually starts to stutter and jerk while camming around. From experience I know it's a good time to restart the client by then, or otherwise my system will grind to a halt soon, requiring a kill -9 secondlife-bin from a remote console.




There does appear to be a leak or uncontrolled allocation/caching. One location appears to grow through out the run time of the game though for me it stops before my system is slowed by it so just SL runs slowly. First three lines from pmap for SL.

0000000008048000 28584K r-x-- /home/mav/SecondLife/bin/secondlife-bin
0000000009c32000 20K rw--- /home/mav/SecondLife/bin/secondlife-bin
0000000009c37000 246912K rw--- [ anon ]

The third report continues to grow, it will even grow beyond the size of the disk cache if the disk cache is under 500mb, it never seems to breech the 1gb mark or start to use swap space.
Tofu Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 471
10-03-2006 04:28
Thanks for the info. I'm always watching for memory leaks.
Tofu Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 29 Aug 2006
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10-03-2006 10:49
From: Zi Ree
Keep up the great work, Tofu! I hope to see you at the regular LUG meeting some time in the future :)
Thanks! I hope so too. I know it's overdue. Wednesdays are usually tough for obvious reasons but I know I'll make it some time!