We are having trouble connecting. There might be a problem with your ...

We are having trouble connecting. There might be a problem with your internet connection or the servers.

is the message i get, after "waiting for region handshake"

everything i can find online dates back to 2007 and yesterday were 500 servers fixed but it is still not working. therefore i suspect my ubuntu8 to have some trouble.

i downloaded the file from secondlife and just extracted it to my home folder, then ran the second life file. it opens nicely and also sort of connects, but i cannot get the region handshake.

ive never been on second life, but wanted to try when i saw that it exists for linux.
cheers

Hi Merikilpikonna,

I run Ubuntu 8 as well, and I've been able to run SL with hardly any problems.

However, SL has apparently been having some server issues lately, so you might have been unlucky enough to try connecting during some down-time or some other glitch on a particular server. Just keep trying!

-Pedro

Having that same problem tonight.

Is there a website where one could see the server's status?

You can see the grid status here:

http://secondlife.com/status/

It is also worth checking any firewall settings or such likr that you may have, whether it is on your computer or on a router etc.

When I used the 1.2x Release Candidate for Linux, I noticed a severe amount of dropped packets -- enough so that I downgraded back to stable (1.19). Using the RC resulted in building being almost impossible for me.

Perhaps this has something to do with it?

Unable to connect to SecondLife
DNS could not resolve the host name.
Please verify that you can connect to the www.secondlife.com web site.
If you can, but continue to receive this error, please go to the suppoert seciotn and report this problem.

Ooookkaaaayyyy... now I'm not the sharpest tool in the box, but I have re-installed it. No luck, (big clue, no news on how many are online, whole graphic is in triangle grid. Unskinned splash page?) there is also a red bar across the top.

Now for the weird part....

DreamStateGrid-- Just heard of it and thoguht I'd give it a test. And I *can* log into that with the RC13!

Great Horny toads! ... OKay, Penguins (Ubuntu 8.04) Er...maybe Herons (?)! What's up with this? The RC cannot log into SL? But it can on another world? What code is corrupting the DNS? I have traced until my eyeballs burn. I can't see it.

Does anyone else have a problem?

RC-12 worked fine, RC-13 does not.

Sysinfo
Ubuntu 8.04, Dell Inspiron 6000 2 gigs ram ATI Mobility Radeon X300

Any thoughts?

I have not specifically seen an error with 1.20.13, but i don't use the Linden supplied libraries so i can't comment on them and if any it would be c-ares (the dns resolver).

I have however seen this a little recently in general, and i have immediately tried local DNS lookups on secondlife.com and they were indeed failing. So it looks like a DNS server was lame but moments later they were working again, so that does look like network issues.

If you can log into another world then i would put my money on DNS server issues. Out of interest is the Linden Beta Grid also the same issue for you? (can't memeber if it uses secondlife.com directly etc so may work still)

M2