will not run

I am trying to run second life on ubuntu 6.10 64-bit version and when I try to run the secondlife file in terminal with ./secondlife it gave an error which is ./secondlife: 42: bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: not found

I got SL working on Ubuntu 6.10 64 bit version but I am getting no sounds at all. Anyone know what is needed to get sounds working in SL? Sounds do work in ubuntu, I watched video files and listened to mp3 songs already in ubuntu.

Hi I get the same error message you had regarding running SL from bin. How did you fix it?
Thanks

Right can we first check the obvioius. From the folder which you run ./secondlife can you see the file bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin. Secondly is that file executable?, and is it owned by you (ie not root etc)

When in the toplevel secondlife folder

ls -l bin/

Will show permissions and ownership

if other files/folders are not owned by the correct user SL will not run either as it can't read/write files it needs to.

I am just wondering how you unpacked the file you downloaded and if you did it via the desktop may be there is a permission problem or a security thing to stop scripts being automaticly executable?

Report back the ls -l and I (or someone) will explain how to change ownership and set executables if you don't already know.

Right what desktop do you use KDE/Gnome etc?

What sound system do you use is it ALSA (probably yes)?

In the ./secondlife script try disabling the OSS and ESD sound options by setting them to BAD (can't see the script at the moment but it makes sense when you are in there).

That should force ALSA but you may still need a wrapper script. Post back with results and details.

My guess is that this error indicates that your 64-bit Linux distribution does have a 32-bit compatibility environment installed.

I still can't run it. I've checked permissions and it's all good. Just to be sure I ran sudo ./secondlife and came up with same error. I unpacked it with whatever the standard kubuntu unpacker is. I'm running feisty. I had the same issue when I tried running SL under Ubuntu. I'm trying the first look client and had the same issue with the regular one. Tofu how does one install the 32-bit compatibility environment? Will that help me or the first poster who can run but with no sound? thanks....
just an update I think I've got the 32 bit environmrnt hooked up but now I run SL and get this:
:~$ cd sl
bash: cd: sl: No such file or directory
ly@purplecar:~$ cd SL
ly@purplecar:~/SL$ ./secondlife
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: another_instance_running: Checking marker file for lock...
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: another_instance_running: Marker file isn't locked.
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: init_marker_file: Checking marker file for lock...
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: init_marker_file: Marker file created.
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: init_marker_file: Removing message.log
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: Exiting init_marker_file().
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: write_debug: Opening debug file /home/ly/.secondlife/logs/debug_info.log
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: write_system_info: Second Life version 1.13.4
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: write_system_info: Local time: 2007-03-21T12:03:29 EDT
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: write_system_info: CPU info:
processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 7 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 2202.853 cache size : 512 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow up bogomips : 4408.82 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: write_system_info: Memory info:
MemTotal: 3091576 kB MemFree: 2260596 kB Buffers: 138356 kB Cached: 379064 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 454492 kB Inactive: 280928 kB SwapTotal: 7960168 kB SwapFree: 7960168 kB Dirty: 300 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 217924 kB Mapped: 99812 kB Slab: 62868 kB SReclaimable: 45700 kB SUnreclaim: 17168 kB PageTables: 12720 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 9505956 kB Committed_AS: 381952 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 5524 kB VmallocChunk: 34359732815 kB
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: write_system_info: OS info: Linux 2.6.20-12-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 17 23:00:52 UTC 2007 x86_64
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: main: Loading feature tables.
2007-03-21T16:03:29Z INFO: maskFeatures: Applying Feature Mask: CPUSlow
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: main: Loading configuration file /home/ly/.secondlife/user_settings/settings_firstlook.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: parseFile: Couldn't open file /home/ly/.secondlife/user_settings/settings_firstlook.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: parseFile: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/ly/.secondlife/user_settings/settings_firstlook.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: loadFromFile: Unable to open control file /home/ly/.secondlife/user_settings/settings_firstlook.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: main: Failed to load settings from /home/ly/.secondlife/user_settings/settings_firstlook.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: main: Loading legacy settings from /home/ly/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.ini
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: loadFromFileLegacy: LLControlGroup::loadFromFile unable to open.
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: parseFile: Couldn't open file /home/ly/.secondlife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: parseFile: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/ly/.secondlife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: loadFromFile: Unable to open control file /home/ly/.secondlife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: main: Loading art table from /home/ly/SL/app_settings/viewerart.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: main: Loading art table from /home/ly/SL/skins/textures/textures.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: main: Loading base colors from /home/ly/SL/app_settings/colors_base.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: main: Loading user colors from /home/ly/SL/app_settings/colors.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: main: Failed to load user colors from /home/ly/SL/app_settings/colors.xml
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: main: Loading legacy colors from /home/ly/SL/app_settings/colors.ini
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: purge_cache: Purging Texture Cache...
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: ll_apr_file_remove failed on file: /home/ly/.secondlife/cache/texture.entries
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: ll_apr_file_remove failed on file: /home/ly/.secondlife/cache/texture.cache
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: ll_apr_file_remove failed on file: /home/ly/.secondlife/cache/textures/texture.entries
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: purge_cache: Purging Cache...
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: initCache: TEXTURE CACHE: Headers: 139810 Textures size: 320 MB
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: init_cache: VFS CACHE SIZE: 100 MB
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: init_cache: Bad or missing vfx index file /home/ly/.secondlife/cache/index.db2.x.1
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: init_cache: Removing old vfs data file /home/ly/.secondlife/cache/data.db2.x.1
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: init_cache: Removing old vfs and re-sizing
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: presizeDataFile: Pre-sized VFS data file to 104857600 bytes
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: LLVFS: VFS: Using index file /home/ly/.secondlife/cache/index.db2.x.1362570408 and data file /home/ly/.secondlife/cache/data.db2.x.1362570408
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: LLVFS: VFS: Using index file /home/ly/SL/app_settings/static_index.db2 and data file /home/ly/SL/app_settings/static_data.db2
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: main: Initializing window...
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: Starting GTK Initialization.
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: GTK Initialized.
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: - Compiled against GTK version 2.4.14
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: - Running against GTK version 2.10.9
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: createContext, fullscreen=0 size=800x600
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: createContext: Compiled against SDL 1.2.5
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: createContext: Running against SDL 1.2.11
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: createContext: creating window 800x600x32
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z WARNING: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: destroyContext begins
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: destroyContext: shutdownGL begins
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: destroyContext: SDL_QuitSS/VID begins
2007-03-21T16:03:30Z INFO: OSMessageBoxSDL: Creating a dialog because we're in windowed mode and GTK is happy.

(<unknown>:6934): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "qtengine",

(<unknown>:6934): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "qtengine",
2007-03-21T16:03:47Z INFO: Skipping quitCursors: mWindow already gone.
2007-03-21T16:03:47Z INFO: destroyContext begins
2007-03-21T16:03:47Z INFO: destroyContext: shutdownGL begins
2007-03-21T16:03:47Z INFO: destroyContext: SDL_QuitSS/VID begins
2007-03-21T16:03:47Z WARNING: createWindow: LLWindowManager::create() : Error creating window.
2007-03-21T16:03:47Z WARNING: LLViewerWindow: Unable to create window, be sure screen is set at 32-bit color and your graphics driver is configured correctly. See README-linux.txt for further information.
2007-03-21T16:03:47Z INFO: remove_marker_file()

um. I'm new to Linux. Would thowing an ATI card in help this...

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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.

ly@purplecar:~/SL$

Definately need to add this into the SL readme, under [64 bit issues]

Normally when running SL - or any 32 bit binary - on a 64 bit environment without the necessary libs installed there would be an error message like

bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

more precisely indicating that the libs are missing.
An error message like

user@host:~/SecondLife$ bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin
bash: bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: No such file or directory

indicates that the 32 bit compatibility environment is completely missing, given all other credentials are in place.

If you suspect that some libs out of your 32-bit (compatibility or native) environment are missing to run SecondLife, try checking it using

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/libPWD/app_settings/mozilla-runtime-linux-i686/LD_LIBRARY_PATH ldd bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin |less

(all of it in one line - copy and paste)

This command shows the libraries the program would need to run and where it would find them. If you see lines with 'not found' in the list, those libraries are still missing and need to be installed.

(snip)


TyKER, can you recheck your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make sure your default color depth is 24, not 16?

Tofu, I think we need to start an offical updated FAQ...