What happened?

/me is horrified!

The viewer used to work (1.17.0.12) then i went away and now can't start it anymore, not even using the latest viewer and after clearing cache.

Here's the dump. Any ideas or should I just give up and put this down as a total waste of time?

2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: main: Viewer Digest: d6e1eba7-ae25-e782-d9c7-5c8098d1bbed
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: dump: Resend: 75
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: dump: Land: 85
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: dump: Wind: 17
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: dump: Cloud: 17
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: dump: Task: 223
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: dump: Texture: 223
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: dump: Asset: 110
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: dump: Total: 750
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: idle_startup: Initializing messaging system...
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: loadFile: Loading message.xml file at /home/tkunkel/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/app_settings/message.xml
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: initClass: LLMessageConfig::intiClass config file /home/tkunkel/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/app_settings/message.xml
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: loadTemplateFile: Message template checksum = bff807b2
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: start_net: startNet - receive buffer size : 262142
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: start_net: startNet - send buffer size : 262142
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: start_messaging_system: Message template version matches prehash version number
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: setAckThrottleBPS: LLXferManager ack throttle min rate: 2.66667e+06
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: setAckThrottleBPS: LLXferManager ack throttle actual rate: 2.93333e+06
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: setAckThrottleBPS: LLXferManager ack throttle min rate: 8000
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: setAckThrottleBPS: LLXferManager ack throttle actual rate: 150000
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: setUpstream: AssetStorage: Setting upstream provider to 0.0.0.0:12036
2007-06-30T12:37:44Z INFO: idle_startup: Initializing embedded web browser...
2007-06-30T12:37:45Z INFO: LLAudioEngine_FMOD::init() initializing FMOD
2007-06-30T12:37:45Z INFO: init: Trying ESD audio output...
2007-06-30T12:37:45Z INFO: ESD audio output initialized OKAY
2007-06-30T12:37:45Z INFO: init: Audio output: ESD
2007-06-30T12:37:45Z INFO: LLAudioEngine_FMOD::init() FMOD initialized correctly
2007-06-30T12:37:45Z INFO: idle_startup: Initializing Window
2007-06-30T12:37:45Z INFO: login_show: Initializing Login Screen
2007-06-30T12:37:45Z INFO: login_show: Decoding Images
2007-06-30T12:37:45Z INFO: login_show: Setting Servers
2007-06-30T12:37:46Z INFO: LLSDXMLParser::Impl:arse: XML_STATUS_ERROR parsing: if (hour < 5)
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: idle_startup: Attempting login as: xx xx
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: Current Directories:
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: CurPath: /home/xxx/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: AppName: SecondLife
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: ExecutableFilename: do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: ExecutableDir: /home/xxx/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/bin
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: ExecutablePathAndName: /home/xxx/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: WorkingDir: /home/xxx/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/bin
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: AppRODataDir: /home/xxx/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: OSUserDir: /home/xxx
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: OSUserAppDir: /home/xxx/.secondlife
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: LindenUserDir: /home/xxx/.secondlife/xx_xx
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: TempDir: /tmp
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: CAFile: /home/xxx/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/app_settings/CA.pem
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: SkinDir:
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z WARNING: parseFile: Couldn't open file /home/xxx/.secondlife/xx_xx/overrides.xml
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z WARNING: parseFile: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/xxx/.secondlife/xx_xx/overrides.xml
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z WARNING: loadFromFile: Unable to open control file /home/xxx/.secondlife/xx_xx/overrides.xml
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z WARNING: parseFile: Couldn't open file /home/xxx/.secondlife/xx_xx/settings.xml
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z WARNING: parseFile: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/xx/.secondlife/xx_xx/settings.xml
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z WARNING: loadFromFile: Unable to open control file /home/xxx/.secondlife/xx_xx/settings.xml
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: init_start_screen: Loading startup bitmap...
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z WARNING: setLastError: Unable to open file for reading FILE:/home/xxx/.secondlife/xx_xx/screen_last.bmp
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: init_start_screen: Bitmap load failed
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: idle_startup: Resolving Agni userserver domain name userserver.agni.lindenlab.com
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: on_userserver_name_resolved: ...Userserver resolved to 66.150.244.151:12036
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: LLCircuit::addCircuitData for 66.150.244.151:12036
2007-06-30T12:37:57Z INFO: idle_startup: Verifying message template...
2007-06-30T12:38:02Z INFO: idle_startup: Resending on timeout
2007-06-30T12:38:02Z INFO: idle_startup: Verifying message template...
2007-06-30T12:38:06Z WARNING: decodeTemplate: Message #0 received but not registered!
2007-06-30T12:38:06Z WARNING: dumpPacketToLog: Packet Dump from:24.165.200.40:53
2007-06-30T12:38:06Z WARNING: dumpPacketToLog: Packet Size:35
2007-06-30T12:38:06Z WARNING: dumpPacketToLog: PD:0PD:00 00 81 80 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
2007-06-30T12:38:06Z WARNING: dumpPacketToLog: PD:1PD:00 c0 0c 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 32 00 04 a9 fe 01
2007-06-30T12:38:06Z WARNING: dumpPacketToLog: PD:2PD:01 6f 6c
2007-06-30T12:38:06Z INFO: remove_marker_file()
2007-06-30T12:38:06Z INFO: do_elfio_glibc_backtrace: Opening stack trace file /hom/xxx/.secondlife/logs/stack_trace.log
2007-06-30T12:38:10Z INFO: do_elfio_glibc_backtrace: Finished generating stack trace.
2007-06-30T12:38:10Z WARNING: LLTransferManager::~LLTransferManager - Should have been cleaned up by message system shutdown process

*********************************************************
This is an ALPHA release of the Second Life linux client.
Thank you for testing!
You can visit the Linux Client Alpha Testers forum at:
/invalid_link.html
Please see README-linux.txt before reporting problems.

Thats it! Bang, crash.

I'm having the exact same problem... I'm gonna try re-downloading it, but who knows if it'll help...
If anyone knows what's going on here, enlightenment would be greatly appreciated!

UPDATE: Nope.. same results. here's the terminal dump from when I hit Connect...

2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: idle_startup: Attempting login as: Melchior Handrick
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: Current Directories:
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: CurPath: /home/will/Desktop/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: AppName: SecondLife
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: ExecutableFilename: do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: ExecutableDir: /home/will/Desktop/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/bin
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: ExecutablePathAndName: /home/will/Desktop/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: WorkingDir: /home/will/Desktop/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/bin
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: AppRODataDir: /home/will/Desktop/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: OSUserDir: /home/will
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: OSUserAppDir: /home/will/.secondlife
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: LindenUserDir: /home/will/.secondlife/melchior_handrick
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: TempDir: /tmp
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: CAFile: /home/will/Desktop/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/app_settings/CA.pem
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: dumpCurrentDirectories: SkinDir:
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z WARNING: parseFile: Couldn't open file /home/will/.secondlife/melchior_handrick/overrides.xml
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z WARNING: parseFile: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/will/.secondlife/melchior_handrick/overrides.xml
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z WARNING: loadFromFile: Unable to open control file /home/will/.secondlife/melchior_handrick/overrides.xml
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: init_start_screen: Loading startup bitmap...
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: idle_startup: Resolving Agni userserver domain name userserver.agni.lindenlab.com
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: on_userserver_name_resolved: ...Userserver resolved to 66.150.244.151:12036
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: LLCircuit::addCircuitData for 66.150.244.151:12036
2007-07-05T06:20:51Z INFO: idle_startup: Verifying message template...
2007-07-05T06:20:52Z INFO: idle_startup: Message template is current!
2007-07-05T06:20:52Z INFO: LLMessageSystem::disableCircuit for 66.150.244.151:12036
2007-07-05T06:20:52Z INFO: LLCircuit::removeCircuitData for 66.150.244.151:12036
2007-07-05T06:20:52Z WARNING: checkMessages: Packet from invalid circuit 66.150.244.151:12036
2007-07-05T06:20:52Z INFO: rewriteURI: Rewriting https://login.agni.lindenlab.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi
2007-07-05T06:20:52Z INFO: rewriteURI: Querying for _https._tcp.login.agni.lindenlab.com
2007-07-05T06:20:57Z INFO: query: Query failed for _https._tcp.login.agni.lindenlab.com
2007-07-05T06:20:57Z INFO: rewriteURI: No query results; using https://login.agni.lindenlab.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi
2007-07-05T06:20:57Z INFO: authenticate: Authenticating: Melchior Handrick,
2007-07-05T06:20:57Z INFO: authenticate: Options: inventory-root, inventory-skeleton, inventory-lib-root, inventory-lib-owner, inventory-skel-lib, initial-outfit, gestures, event_categories, event_notifications, classified_categories, buddy-list, ui-config, login-flags, global-textures, END
2007-07-05T06:20:57Z INFO: LLUserAuth::authenticate: uri=https://login.agni.lindenlab.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: transferRate: Buffer size: 60233 B
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: transferRate: Transfer size: 7299 B
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: transferRate: Transfer time: 2.07273 s
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: transferRate: Transfer rate: 28.168 Kb/s
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: authResponse: Processed response: 0
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: LLCircuit::addCircuitData for 64.129.46.43:13004
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: Stopping GL during changeDisplaySettings
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: stopGL: Shutting down GL...
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: stopGL: Remaining allocated texture memory: 0 bytes
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: switchContext, fullscreen=1
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: destroyContext begins
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: destroyContext: shutdownGL begins
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: destroyContext: SDL_QuitSS/VID begins
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: createContext, fullscreen=1 size=800x600
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: createContext: Compiled against SDL 1.2.5
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: createContext: Running against SDL 1.2.11
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: createContext: setting up fullscreen 800x600
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z WARNING: signal_handlers: *** Caught signal 11
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: remove_marker_file()
2007-07-05T06:20:59Z INFO: do_elfio_glibc_backtrace: Opening stack trace file /home/will/.secondlife/logs/stack_trace.log
2007-07-05T06:21:04Z INFO: do_elfio_glibc_backtrace: Finished generating stack trace.
2007-07-05T06:21:04Z WARNING: LLTransferManager::~LLTransferManager - Should have been cleaned up by message system shutdown process

*********************************************************
This is an ALPHA release of the Second Life linux client.
Thank you for testing!
You can visit the Linux Client Alpha Testers forum at:
/invalid_link.html
Please see README-linux.txt before reporting problems.


Can anyone tell me what the "WARNING: signal_handlers: *** Caught signal 11" means? I'm guessing this is the problem... Not a dev though so I'm probably wrong...

SL release: 1_17_3_0
Distro: FC 5, kernel 2.6.20-1.2320
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

Thor, generally, signal 11 means "End yourself, NOW". This signal one sends to a process that is supposed to end itself immediately. Though in this case am not sure what is causing this signal to be issued.

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Am desparate too, version 1_13_3_2 was the last one fully working for me. Then, version 1_17_0_12 worked at first but later not. Versions 1_17_2_0 and 1_17_3_0 don't work at all. I receive similar errors as Thor, and the client just crashes every time I execute SL after a few seconds.

I have been using the Linux clients since last year, without any major obstacles. Is this over now? Is my graphics card no longer supported? I start missing SL.



JeanLuc

Erm, JeanLuc, you're mistaking 11 (SIGSEGV) for 9 (SIGKILL). The one you described is 9 (SIGKILL).

A signal 11 (SIGSEGV) can be described as "you tried to access memory that's invalid for you", often because the memory itself doesn't exist, or because the program tried to violate the process space boundaries usually set by the kernel.

Thanks Katrina for pointing that out. Sorry Thor for confusing you further.

I knew about signal 11 from the situation where one manually triggers it via the kill command (as a last resort to get a healthier end of a process than the one caused by signal 9). Lesson learnt, I know now what one is actually simulating by doing that: a segmentation violation (which in turn is followed by a predefined manner to end the process).

Katrina, any idea what is causing the SEGV? Anything a mortal Linux user can do something about?

A SEGV can have many, many causes. Basically, somehow the code asks the system "I want to access memory X", and the system replies "no, you cannot". Then the program, by default, bails out.

The triggering even can be really anything. A JPG that says "I'm 10K long", and the code that tries to examine the entire JPG data, only to discover that the file is actually corrupt, that past the 4th KB, there's no more data, and it's trying to access a private region of the stack/heap. Or a garbage collector trying to free up more memory that has been created when it was needed, thus trying to destroy data structures that are STILL in use somewhere. Or trying to read/write past the boundaries of a buffer, or an array, or a structure: you have a vector with N elements, and one of your functions want to read the N+1th element.

I guess that we could know MUCH more about this serious signal (even if trapped, it shows an extremely pathological, and often unsolvable, condition in the states machine), if we could know the content of the file:

/home/${USER}/.secondlife/logs/stack_trace.log

which is produced exactly for the reason to describe/explain what went wrong!

0: ELF(do_elfio_glibc_backtrace()+0x107) [0x9627077]
1: ELF(viewer_crash_callback()+0x261) [0x9637701]
2: ELF(signal_handlers(int)+0x112) [0x9634cb2]
3: [0xffffe500]
4: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x3e) [0x184f35]
5: ELF(FT_Free+0x27) [0x9a8bfe7]
6: ELF(T1_Face_Done+0x2e0) [0x9ab8158]
7: ELF(destroy_face+0x152) [0x9a8ee80]
8: ELF(FT_Done_Face+0x81) [0x9a8f1e6]
9: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcFreeTypeQuery+0x1b50) [0x3b8f40]
10: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcFileScanConfig+0x7d) [0x3b5d9d]
11: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcDirScanConfig+0x1b5) [0x3b6095]
12: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 [0x3ae046]
13: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 [0x3ae084]
14: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 [0x3ae084]
15: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcCacheRead+0x4f) [0x3ae1cf]
16: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcConfigBuildFonts+0x7f) [0x3b09bf]
17: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcInitLoadConfigAndFonts+0x2f) [0x3b994f]
18: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcInit+0x35) [0x3b9a55]
19: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcConfigGetCurrent+0x3 [0x3aff08]
20: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcConfigSubstituteWithPat+0xaea) [0x3b21ba]
21: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcConfigSubstitute+0x33) [0x3b2223]
22: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN16nsFontMetricsXft14SetupFCPatternEv+0x202) [0xf7cf843a]
23: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN16nsFontMetricsXft8FindFontEj+0x2c) [0xf7cf80b2]
24: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN16nsFontMetricsXft11RealizeFontEv+0x2a) [0xf7cf7798]
25: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so [0xf7cf71bf]
26: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN11nsFontCache13GetMetricsForERK6nsFontP7nsIAtomRP14nsIFontMetrics+0x167) [0xf747ad93]
27: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN17DeviceContextImpl13GetMetricsForERK6nsFontP7nsIAtomRP14nsIFontMetrics+0xd0) [0xf7479d9c]
28: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so [0xf7717f43]
29: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN17nsHTMLReflowState14CalcLineHeightEP13nsPresContextP19nsIRenderingContextP8nsIFrame+0x22) [0xf7717f90]
30: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN18nsBlockReflowStateC1ERK17nsHTMLReflowStateP13nsPresContextP12nsBlockFrameRK19nsHTMLReflowMetricsii+0x30e) [0xf76f0f96]
31: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so [0xf76e55a6]
32: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN16nsContainerFrame11ReflowChildEP8nsIFrameP13nsPresContextR19nsHTMLReflowMetricsRK17nsHTMLReflowStateiijRj+0x8a) [0xf76f81ca]
33: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so [0xf7714449]
34: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN16nsContainerFrame11ReflowChildEP8nsIFrameP13nsPresContextR19nsHTMLReflowMetricsRK17nsHTMLReflowStateiijRj+0x8a) [0xf76f81ca]
35: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN17nsHTMLScrollFrame19ReflowScrolledFrameERK17ScrollReflowStateiiP19nsHTMLReflowMetricsi+0x1c7) [0xf770be9f]
36: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN17nsHTMLScrollFrame14ReflowContentsEP17ScrollReflowStateRK19nsHTMLReflowMetrics+0x10b) [0xf770c037]
37: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so [0xf770c8d4]
38: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so(_ZN16nsContainerFrame11ReflowChildEP8nsIFrameP13nsPresContextR19nsHTMLReflowMetricsRK17nsHTMLReflowStateiijRj+0x8a) [0xf76f81ca]
39: /home/[username]/secondlife/SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/libxul.so [0xf775c0a7]


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Hope this helps.

Interesting. Very, very rough first interpretation: it seems like your viewer is building the interface (actually, the llmozlib is trying to), and enumerating the available fonts. Then something goes wrong with the font system, and it tries to free up memory in its font cache. But the memory freed violates some segment.

The link "unicode.ttf" you have in your main viewer directory, points to a valid font? Or it's a dangling link? What's the content of the fonts directory in your viewer dir? How it's your fontconfig configured?

Hi Katrina

"unicode.ttf" turned out to be a broken link. The directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype does not exist. Then I looked for true type fonts elsewhere and found these:

/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraSe.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraMoIt.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraMoBd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraMoBI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraMono.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraIt.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraSeBd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/timesbi.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/ariblk.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/timesi.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/verdanai.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/trebuc.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/verdanaz.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/l_10646.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/georgia.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/arialbd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/comic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/arial.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/verdanab.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/courbd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/times.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/tahomabd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/georgiab.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/trebucbd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/wingding.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/ariali.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/symbol.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/couri.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/trebucit.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/cour.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/lucon.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/comicbd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/georgiai.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/arialbi.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/tahoma.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/micross.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/trebucbi.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/andalemo.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/verdana.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/impact.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/timesbd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/webdings.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/courbi.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/webcore/georgiaz.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType/sazanami-mincho.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType/sazanami-gothic.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luximbi.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisbi.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luximri.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisri.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirr.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirbi.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirb.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luxirri.ttf
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/luxisb.ttf
...
(and a few more that belong to applications)

So the closest match seemed to be /usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType/sazanami-mincho.ttf (no idea if it is actually anything comparable to the originally linked "kochi-mincho.ttf". Just to give it a shot I linked unicode.ttf to the sazanami one. But the viewer is still crashing. :-/
And on a glance, the stack_trace.log looks the same.

SecondLife_i686_1_17_3_0/fonts:
MtBdLfRg.ttf
MtBkLfRg.ttf
profontdoc.txt
profontwindows.ttf
Readme.txt

That's all.

Got curious and checked through all the previous SL installations - they all had this broken link and I could use SL back then. So by right this TTF should not be that crucial.

Fontconfig? Is it this one: /etc/fonts/fonts.conf ? It is a rather lengthy XML file. Looking for anything in particular? I haven't dealt with it before. Generally, 99% of my installed stuff has been done via FC5 suited RPMs (SL is just one of the very few exceptions I could not install the _clean_ way). Hence, I usually do not (need to) crack my brain much over hardcore things - bear with me. :]

Yes. You just confirmed me that everything is as it should, at least apparently. I run out of ideas. I fear you should wait for Tofu (as busy as he is...).

Or better yet open a Jira ticket with all the relevant info you relayed to me, especially the stack trace. Good luck!

Thanks for trying. Appreciated.

Well, at least we could sorta establish that it is not a minor thing that I ought to be able to fix myself.

Did you guys do any package updates to your operating system between the time it was working and the time it started crashing. Maybe glibc or something?

From man signal


First the signals described in the original POSIX.1-1990 standard.

Signal Value Action Comment
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
SIGHUP 1 Term Hangup detected on controlling terminal
or death of controlling process
SIGINT 2 Term Interrupt from keyboard
SIGQUIT 3 Core Quit from keyboard
SIGILL 4 Core Illegal Instruction
SIGABRT 6 Core Abort signal from abort(3)
SIGFPE 8 Core Floating point exception
SIGKILL 9 Term Kill signal
SIGSEGV 11 Core Invalid memory reference
SIGPIPE 13 Term Broken pipe: write to pipe with no readers
SIGALRM 14 Term Timer signal from alarm(2)
SIGTERM 15 Term Termination signal
SIGUSR1 30,10,16 Term User-defined signal 1
SIGUSR2 31,12,17 Term User-defined signal 2
SIGCHLD 20,17,18 Ign Child stopped or terminated
SIGCONT 19,18,25 Cont Continue if stopped
SIGSTOP 17,19,23 Stop Stop process
SIGTSTP 18,20,24 Stop Stop typed at tty
SIGTTIN 21,21,26 Stop tty input for background process
SIGTTOU 22,22,27 Stop tty output for background process


Anyway, I have a similar trouble .... I don't know what could making the segmention fault.

2007-07-11T07:12:45Z WARNING: signal_handlers: *** Caught signal 6
2007-07-11T07:12:45Z INFO: remove_marker_file()
2007-07-11T07:12:45Z INFO: do_elfio_glibc_backtrace: Opening stack trace file /home/hezuniga/.secondlife/logs/stack_trace.log
2007-07-11T07:12:48Z INFO: do_elfio_glibc_backtrace: Finished generating stack trace.


0: ELF(do_elfio_glibc_backtrace()+0x107) [0x9627077]
1: ELF(viewer_crash_callback()+0x261) [0x9637701]
2: ELF(signal_handlers(int)+0x112) [0x9634cb2]
3: [0xffffe420]
4: [0xffffe410]
5: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x50) [0xb6495df0]
6: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(abort+0x101) [0xb6497641]
7: /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 [0xb5bb0485]

SL release: 1_18_0_6
Distro: FC 5, kernel 2.6.20-1.2320
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

Update: The latest releases 1_17_3_1 and 1_18_0_6 didn't solve the problem.

Brian: My current glibc version is 2.4-11. Originally FC5 comes with 2.4-4, so yes it has been updated at some point. But not lately, I believe.

Another update in this threat (yes I am still around, amazingly).
The following versions did not work for me as well:
1_18_1_2 and
1_18_2_1

Now finally version
1_18_3_5
kinda works! It's like the early days when I joined ..just graphics - without audio. So yes, that's still one thing that isn't correct. Seemingly audio related errors are these:

...
2007-10-02T17:37:36Z INFO: LLAudioEngine_FMOD::init() initializing FMOD
2007-10-02T17:37:36Z INFO: init: Trying ESD audio output...
2007-10-02T17:37:36Z WARNING: ESD audio output FAILED to initialize: Error initializing output device.
2007-10-02T17:37:36Z INFO: init: Trying OSS audio output...
2007-10-02T17:37:36Z WARNING: OSS audio output FAILED to initialize: Error initializing output device.
2007-10-02T17:37:36Z INFO: init: Trying ALSA audio output...
2007-10-02T17:37:36Z WARNING: ALSA audio output FAILED to initialize: Error initializing output device.
2007-10-02T17:37:36Z WARNING: Overall audio init failure.
2007-10-02T17:37:36Z WARNING: idle_startup: Unable to initialize audio engine
...

Note: Audio definitely used to work for version 1_17_0_12 and prior. Same hardware, no changes here. Could there be a conflict with something else using audio? No clue

Not sure what's going on. Earlier today I could not get SL running at all (tried several times). Suspecting it has to do with Audio I disabled AudioStreamingMusic in .secondlife/user_settings/settings_default.xml. Another, most likely unrelated change: I made sure my video RAM was set to 512 instead of 256. And voila! My SL client started up. Once running I enabled Audio Streaming ..and it worked!

*puzzled*

Meanwhile I had plenty time to test further with version 1_18_3_5. A pattern has emerged:

- If I launch SL via Nautilus (GUI file browser) it never works, no matter how often I try.

- If I run SL manually from a terminal window it consistently crashes the first time and works the the second time

- Audio works fine and does not seem to be the culprit after all (disproving my initial suspicion)