Linux Client 1.17.x not working

Ever since 1.17.x Secondlife has refused to start on my debian lenny system.

1.16.x worked great, so what has been the major change ?

If it NEVER worked I would go looking at my system, but when audio, movies, EVERYTHING worked really reallllly well in the linux client - so I cannot understand the backward step.

here is the output generated in the shell window :-


2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: another_instance_running: Checking marker file for lock...
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: another_instance_running: Marker file isn't locked.
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: init_marker_file: Checking marker file for lock...
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: init_marker_file: Marker file created.
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: init_marker_file: Removing message.log
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: Exiting init_marker_file().
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: write_debug: Opening debug file /home/richard/.secondlife/logs/debug_info.log
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: write_system_info: Second Life version 1.17.2
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: write_system_info: Local time: 2007-06-27T18:59:53 EST
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: write_system_info: CPU info:
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 6 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 3200.193 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings: 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 6 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 6405.07 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 6 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 3200.193 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 6 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 6400.63
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: write_system_info: Memory info:
MemTotal: 2076976 kB MemFree: 56972 kB Buffers: 261760 kB Cached: 1341704 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1035952 kB Inactive: 775736 kB HighTotal: 1179584 kB HighFree: 2764 kB LowTotal: 897392 kB LowFree: 54208 kB SwapTotal: 1510068 kB SwapFree: 1510016 kB Dirty: 228 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 207732 kB Mapped: 84292 kB Slab: 191004 kB PageTables: 2156 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 2548556 kB Committed_AS: 454852 kB VmallocTotal: 114680 kB VmallocUsed: 43804 kB VmallocChunk: 63476 kB
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: write_system_info: OS info: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: main: Loading feature tables.
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: maskFeatures: Applying Feature Mask: CPUSlow
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: main: Loading configuration file /home/richard/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: parseFile: Couldn't open file /home/richard/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: parseFile: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/richard/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: loadFromFile: Unable to open control file /home/richard/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: main: Failed to load settings from /home/richard/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: main: Loading legacy settings from /home/richard/.secondlife/user_settings/settings.ini
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: loadFromFileLegacy: LLControlGroup::loadFromFile unable to open.
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: parseFile: Couldn't open file /home/richard/.secondlife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: parseFile: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/richard/.secondlife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: loadFromFile: Unable to open control file /home/richard/.secondlife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: main: Loading art table from /home/richard/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/app_settings/viewerart.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: main: Loading art table from /home/richard/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/skins/textures/textures.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: main: Loading base colors from /home/richard/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/app_settings/colors_base.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: main: Loading user colors from /home/richard/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/app_settings/colors.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: main: Failed to load user colors from /home/richard/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/app_settings/colors.xml
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: main: Loading legacy colors from /home/richard/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/app_settings/colors.ini
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: purge_cache: Purging Texture Cache...
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: ll_apr_file_remove failed on file: /home/richard/.secondlife/cache/texture.cache
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: ll_apr_file_remove failed on file: /home/richard/.secondlife/cache/textures/texture.entries
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: purge_cache: Purging Cache...
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: initCache: TEXTURE CACHE: Headers: 139810 Textures size: 320 MB
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: init_cache: VFS CACHE SIZE: 100 MB
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: init_cache: Bad or missing vfx index file /home/richard/.secondlife/cache/index.db2.x.1
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: init_cache: Removing old vfs data file /home/richard/.secondlife/cache/data.db2.x.1
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: init_cache: Removing old vfs and re-sizing
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: presizeDataFile: Pre-sized VFS data file to 104857600 bytes
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: LLVFS: VFS: Using index file /home/richard/.secondlife/cache/index.db2.x.846252004 and data file /home/richard/.secondlife/cache/data.db2.x.846252004
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: LLVFS: VFS: Using index file /home/richard/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/app_settings/static_index.db2 and data file /home/richard/SecondLife_i686_1_17_2_0/app_settings/static_data.db2
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: main: Initializing window...
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: Starting GTK Initialization.
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: GTK Initialized.
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: - Compiled against GTK version 2.4.14
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: - Running against GTK version 2.10.12
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: createContext, fullscreen=0 size=800x600
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: createContext: Compiled against SDL 1.2.5
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: createContext: Running against SDL 1.2.11
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: createContext: creating window 800x600x32
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: destroyContext begins
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: destroyContext: shutdownGL begins
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: destroyContext: SDL_QuitSS/VID begins
2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: OSMessageBoxSDL: Creating a dialog because we're in windowed mode and GTK is happy.
2007-06-27T08:59:57Z INFO: Skipping quitCursors: mWindow already gone.
2007-06-27T08:59:57Z INFO: destroyContext begins
2007-06-27T08:59:57Z INFO: destroyContext: shutdownGL begins
2007-06-27T08:59:57Z INFO: destroyContext: SDL_QuitSS/VID begins
2007-06-27T08:59:57Z WARNING: createWindow: LLWindowManager::create() : Error creating window.
2007-06-27T08:59:57Z 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.
2007-06-27T08:59:57Z INFO: remove_marker_file()

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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:
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Please see README-linux.txt before reporting problems.

Sorry,

The Windows-client is better, because LindenLabs put more effort in getting the Windows-client up and running than it does with the Linux client.

Examples:
- Voice support missing
- Support for the Linux-version from LL is completely missing (try calling in a bug through phone, you get it back with the respond that the Linux-client is not supported).
- LL choose for QuickTime as their video-player, which is not available for Linux

The global impression is that the support (and thus the effort made by LL) to make the Linux-client better/as good as the Windows client is lessening every day. Perhaps the 1.18 change gets more OpenSource viewers available ...

Regards,
Marcoh (a Linux-fan, who uses a Windows-notebook for work).

Windows - I cannot get the windows version of the client to work on my linux computer. Through Vmware Server, even with the option to use 3d acceleration (it does work on my computer) SL reports that my virtual 3d card is unsupported. If I use wine, I get errors all over the place all having to do with not being able to find d3d9 (I even copied and pasted over from my virtual machine to no avail) and not being able to register some wine based open gl class (?).

Linux - I just unpack the compressed archive and run the damn blob. Sure, it doesn't have some codecs and functionality and does crash once in a while possibly requiring a reboot, but it RUNS.

My verdict. I'm with Linux on this one.

With my logic, Running something w/ less features > not being able to run something with more features. My $0.02.

What do you mean by "better"?

If you mean "more stable/better supported" than it's most probably the Windows client since the Linux client is still an Alpha release--which means not much support and not guaranteed to work at all.

Yet, for me the Linux client is "better" as it allows me to run SL. And up to now it's running quite smoothly here. With just a Windows client I had no chance to play SL. I'm happy that LL decided to release the source code of the client as Open Source which will help to stabilize the program sooner or later.

I am contente with my Linux-client under Debian. It works fine, it is
the version SecondLife_i686_1_17_0_12. I have Nvidia here.

Windows client on Windows is better than the Linux client on Linux.

At least I actually have sound, can move, and play with the Windows client. The last couple of Linux clients have been terrible on my computer (Ubuntu Feisty/Gutsy, nVidia graphics).

If I want to do anything important, I have to reboot into Windows. I hope things improve soon- I'm sure it used to work better than it does now.

> 1.16.x worked great, so what has been the major change ?

I don't know of any changes. I've seen no difference here.

> here is the output generated in the shell window :-

Thanks for appending that. This output makes me very suspicious:

> 2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: - Compiled against GTK version 2.4.14
> 2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: ll_try_gtk_init: - Running against GTK version 2.10.12
> 2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: createContext, fullscreen=0 size=800x600
> 2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: createContext: Compiled against SDL 1.2.5
> 2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: createContext: Running against SDL 1.2.11
> 2007-06-27T08:59:53Z INFO: createContext: creating window 800x600x32
> 2007-06-27T08:59:53Z WARNING: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

This suggests that either the colour depth of your display has changed (look through the output of xdpyinfo to see what depth you're running at) or something's gone wrong with your GL support (look through the output of glxinfo).