The log output from the time the connect button was clicked to the time the failure message was opened is reproduced here:
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2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: Attempting login as: Cyall Akula
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: Current Directories:
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: CurPath: /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: AppName: SecondLife
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: ExecutableFilename: do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: ExecutableDir: /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6/bin
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: ExecutablePathAndName: /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6/bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: WorkingDir: /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6/bin
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: AppRODataDir: /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: OSUserDir: /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: OSUserAppDir: /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6/SecondLife
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: LindenUserDir: /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6/SecondLife/cyall_akula
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: TempDir: /tmp
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: CAFile: /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6/app_settings/CA.pem
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: SkinDir:
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z WARNING: Couldn't open file /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6/SecondLife/cyall_akula/overrides.xml
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z WARNING: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6/SecondLife/cyall_akula/overrides.xml
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z WARNING: Unable to open control file /home/ethan/Cyall/SecondLife_i686_1_12_3_6/SecondLife/cyall_akula/overrides.xml
2006-11-26T15:01:12Z INFO: Loading startup bitmap...
2006-11-26T15:01:14Z INFO: Resolving Agni userserver domain name userserver.agni.lindenlab.com
2006-11-26T15:01:14Z INFO: ...Userserver resolved to 66.150.244.151:12036
2006-11-26T15:01:14Z INFO: LLCircuit::addCircuitData for 66.150.244.151:12036
2006-11-26T15:01:14Z INFO: Verifying message template...
2006-11-26T15:01:14Z INFO: Message template is current!
2006-11-26T15:01:14Z INFO: LLMessageSystem::disableCircuit for 66.150.244.151:12036
2006-11-26T15:01:14Z INFO: LLCircuit::removeCircuitData for 66.150.244.151:12036
2006-11-26T15:01:14Z WARNING: Packet from invalid circuit 66.150.244.151:12036
2006-11-26T15:01:14Z INFO: Authenticating: Cyall Akula,
2006-11-26T15:01:14Z INFO: 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
2006-11-26T15:01:14Z INFO: LLUserAuth::authenticate: uri=https://login.agni.lindenlab.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z ALERT: LLXMLRPCTransaction CURL error 23: Error while processing content unencoding.
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z Unknown failure within decompression software.
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z ALERT: LLXMLRPCTransaction request URI: https://login.agni.lindenlab.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z INFO: Processed response: 23
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z WARNING: Alert: [ErrorMessage]
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z WARNING: Alert: Unable to connect to Second Life.
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z Despite our best efforts, something unexpected has gone wrong.
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z Please check www.secondlife.com/status and the Second Life
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z Announcements forum to see if there is a known problem with
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z the service.
2006-11-26T15:01:18Z WARNING: Unknown control type web_browser
The message Unknown failure within decompression software is the only lead I've got, but like I said, it worked before lol. My system's quite a bare one, with neither KDE nor Gnome nor even XFCE installed, maybe the problem's something to do with that?
EDIT: Whatever was wrong has fixed itself, after about 24 hours.