Some good news ...

1.15.0.2 On Fedora Core 6, KDE desktop, All updates and the Nvidia 9755 driver held steady for over 3 hours tonight. My longest non-crash Linux login yet! Ducked into some pretty dense dance parties and the Welcome and Help islands. Ran in Windowed and Fullscreen and even switched back and forth.

FC6 - All updates
Nvidia 9755
Nvidia GeForce 7300 PCIe
1GB
2.66GHz Celeron

Same results for me. Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy. Full updates. nVidia FX 5200 128 mb graphix -- nVidia 9755 driver -- 1 gig ram -- 2.0 AMD

Good Stuff! I got scared when, after using 1.13 for a while now, due to 1.14 not working so well, there was a message forcing me to use 1.15 Glad it works!

This happens to me EVERY SINGLE TIME I download a new SL version. I am running Mandriva 2007.0 and just downloaded/installed the latest main grid 1.15.0.2 version only to find that I cannot (AGAIN) login. Doesn't even try - that is, my firewall is NOT the problem, it is a problem with the client before the network ever gets involved.

I have deleted my ~/.secondlife directory and started up the client, entered my SL name and pword, hit Connect and get:

2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: idle_startup: Resolving Agni userserver domain name userserver.agni.lindenlab.com
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: on_userserver_name_resolved: ...Userserver resolved to 66.150.244.151:12036
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: LLCircuit::addCircuitData for 66.150.244.151:12036
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: idle_startup: Verifying message template...
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: idle_startup: Message template is current!
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: LLMessageSystem::disableCircuit for 66.150.244.151:12036
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: LLCircuit::removeCircuitData for 66.150.244.151:12036
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: authenticate: Authenticating: Tempus Tesio,
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z 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
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: LLUserAuth::authenticate: uri=https://login.agni.lindenlab.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z WARNING: process: LLXMLRPCTransaction CURL error 7: couldn't connect to host
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z WARNING: process: LLXMLRPCTransaction request URI: https://login.agni.lindenlab.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: authResponse: Processed response: 7
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z WARNING: createXml: Alert: [ErrorMessage]
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z WARNING: createDialog: Alert: Unable to connect to Second Life.
Despite our best efforts, something unexpected has gone wrong.

Please check www.secondlife.com/status
to see if there is a known problem with the service.
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: idle_startup: Initializing Window
2007-05-01T14:59:53Z INFO: login_show: Initializing Login Screen
2007-05-01T14:59:54Z INFO: login_show: Decoding Images
2007-05-01T14:59:54Z INFO: login_show: Setting Servers
2007-05-01T14:59:54Z INFO: processChain: Pump generated pipe err: 'STATUS_NO_CONNECTION'

I have checked my firewall settings and the ports are opened. There is no firewall issue here. There isn't even any detection of traffic TO the login site in my firewall router logs...thus, in spite of the messages above, there is absolutely NO attempt to send my username and password to the SL login site.

WTF? I am getting so very tired of this issue.

dunno, i have mandriva 2007 and never have an issue with it and sl what kind of NIC do you have?

Is an onboard Nvidia network device. The thing is, my windows version of SL works fine with all the same hardware. I only run into this annoying issue under linux. My system is an AMD64 dual core (running on 32bit linux) with NVidia 7800GT graphics and Nvidia network device.

Just wanted to add that everything worked good for me 'out of the box'.

Things of Interest:
Sabayon Linux 3.3 Gentoo Kernel 2.6.20 R7
Laptop: Gateway ~ Centrino Duo Core 64 @ 1.66 ghz each
Intel Integrated Gfx 128 MB DDR2 (yeah yeah should have got the upgraded nvidia w/e)
1024 GB DDR System RAM

Not an incredibly fancy system, but fully updated packages/builds. Using the supported IPRWireless Dev Drivers perfectly fine. I should note that I tried the 64 bit system first, but realized it would be more hassle then what it's worth to try 32 bit compatability support.

As we are running the same system (and I've had SL work in the past on linux) and my windows version runs fine on this system (on Vista no less) it can't be a hardware issue. Clearly there must be some setting outside my firewall.

Is your Mandriva settings different than the basic defaults? What security level did you go with? Do you run SL from within its directory from a CLI? Was there any settings you needed to set in SL before trying to connect?

Do those of you that have secondlife running fine on your linux systems have ipv6 disabled?

I am still trying to find the reason secondlife will not successfully connect to the authentication server. It detects the correct IP address but fails to login. When I shutdown the stats indicated that only one of 3 packets were successful. Reattempting logins again and again comes to nothing.

I had secondlife working on this system once but that was a few months back and I can't recall when I changed any basic system software components (such as the kernel) since then. All I know is that I ran into this very same issue in the past and discovered a way around (or was told)...in any case, there is no way to connect and I am now down to trying to disable ipv6 in a wild attempt to SL working.

IPv6 disabled here, on my router, and all working (relatively) fine.