Secondlife locks up

Ive been annoyed be SL locking up when multitasking. Today i caught on that it seems to do it when I alt-tab into SL but not when i click in. The worst part is i have to power down. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesnt work to kill xwindows
I hav an acer laptop
intel dcT2250
Intel 950 graphics card.

I enabled this line in order for it to work at all, nut still locks up on me when i am trying to do multiple things
export LL_GL_BLACKLIST=j

any suggestions

What CPU is in that computer?

I'm also experiencing this problem..the only way I can reliably use SL is by giving it it's own x server and never logging on to the main one. Using sudo startx ./secondlife -- :1

I saw a similiar message here.

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That actually has nothing to do with this....that's relating to sound and connecting...this is relating to one second your playing..the next SL has completely crashed the X server to the point of no return.

does this mean that all you can do is use sl @ that point untill your done with sl?

or can i use the main one to do other things

i tend to multitask

Intel DuoCore T2250 1.73ghz

I have an intel pentium D 2.8 ghz...and yes that means technically you can't multitask, by doing ctrl+alt+f7 (f7 with ubuntu distros same as far as i know for other distros) gets you back to the main x server, by logging into that and doing work Sl won't crash, but after an extended time of switching back and forth SL crashed the main x server along with itself. SL crashes by itself a little more often than I'd like but that's to be expected with alpha software. The thing that's a problem is it's crashing all X servers with it. which leaves the system unusable until a restart...I've been using linux for awhile and restarts are never required and crashing theoratically never happens. This problem in my opinions should be top priority..although it would probably be hard to track down, I've been sending in bug reports via a request form that pops up whenever this happens so hopefully something will be done soon.

I've started getting this problem today, it now happens with every version of the Linux client from 13_3_2 (which was previously fine) to 14_0_1. I'm using Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 with an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro/fglrx/GNOME. Nothing stands out in the logs before the crashes. The whole PC locks up and I can't get a terminal.


***EDIT***

This is almost certainly related to the sound drivers. I had switched accidentally to the VIA 8237 drivers. Switching everything back to ALSA = no crash so far.

I've only managed to hang the X-Server in full-screen mode. So now I stick to windowed.
I've also compiled OSS support in to the kernel and use that rather than alsa for SL. I remember alsa used to give me grief but that was a few versions ago.

There is also some mileage in using a less fancy desktop on a lower spec machine. I started using XFCE instead of KDE for running SL, and now just run Sl in it's own X session.

And I share your view that nothing stands out in the log usually. I quite often get a "kill" after a throttling bandwidth message, but it's not reporting as an error or warning. I'm guessing that a lot of the crashes are server related, but have no idea which ones, or if the client would be more resilient with different settings.
Sigh...
It usually works though!

The new versions of secondlife (14) have broken shiny on objects and cause beryl to have issues rendering certain GTK apps (show up as a black window with the border), fun stuff. It also seems to crash alot more on the new version. The crashes and app render errors are somewhat annoying but can be bypassed (via changing the WM) and secondlife starts up quick enough that I dont loose much work.

System:
Fedora Core 6
Opteron 165
Gefore 7900GS (Nvidia 1.0-9755)
2gb ram

Please check if you have commented out the BASICEXT debug variable in your ./secondlife script.

See also the README-linux.txt file in troubleshooting tips.

I already found that one, stupid me, RTFM lol