Bugs / Known Issues

Well, the missing libraries bug was fixed by someone emailing me the missing files, so that's taken care of.

However, the new clint will only 'run in a window' at 800x600, any other resolution runs full screen.

I'd rather run in a 1024x768 or 1152x864 window, so I can keep other programs running in other virtual desktops, which earlier versions could do.

can this be restored in a later update?

I hope those didn't have a virus or trojan in them!



Wierd, I upgraded to the latest alpha from the site, and when it runs in windowed mode, the window is resizable. At the login screen I just resized it to 1280x1024 and logged in. The setting was written to setting.xml and now thats the default size.

These are the lines that were added to my SecondLife/user_settings/settings.xml

        <!--SL viewer window height-->
        <WindowHeight value="1057"/>
        <!--SL viewer window maximized on login-->
        <WindowMaximized value="FALSE"/>
        <!--SL viewer window width-->
        <WindowWidth value="1312"/>

Config
Toshiba M400 Core duo T2500 1Go RAM
Suse 10.1
Gnome
2.6.16.13-4-smp #1 SMP Wed May 3 04:53:23 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
X.Org version: 6.9.0
maximum request size: 16777212 bytes
motion buffer size: 256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order: LSBFirst

GM945 integrated graphics



when SL is open, moving a window is likely to freeze everything.
There is this message in the log :

intelWaitIrq: drmI830IrqWait: -16

The in-client bug reporting appeared to work for me in the 51916 preview. Should we still post things here, or just using that mechanism now?

In my opinion, both - bug reporting via the reporting tool goes to a big pile in the general bug fix area of SL development, and since linux specific stuff is fairly fringe for LL as a whole, the priority may be low on this.

Reporting the bugs here means Tofu, Don, Karen and the Wild Eyed Linux Gurus in SL can see them directly, and sometimes resolve the issue in the forum - or with an online session with SL itself.

I'd still like to set up a nice managed place we can actually catalogue the bugs in a useful manner. Or as someone suggested, create a thread for each release, so that we can see what people are still experiencing after each release.

Now THAT is a GREAT Idea! At least until the SL Linux Client is out of Beta

If no-one else does it, I will start a new thread for the new client we will get on Wednesday.

Though I must admit, I am in shock that we are getting SO much action on the SL Linux Client so I am not making much sense at the moment - I have Dizzy Spells In World when using the Linux Client cos it is just too much!

Suse 10.1
KDE
Normal Suse 10.1 kernal ( current version as of Sept 3 2006 )
6.9.0 (x.org)
Nvidia Linux alpha drivers( current version as of Sept3 2006)
PNY Nvidia Geforce 6600 256 MB
AMD 3200 2.2GHZ
1.00 Gig DDR memory

Linux client shows Video meory settings allowable at 512MB even through the card only has 256 MB

Client crashes when set at hifger seting(as I expected it would)

I would suggest that you change the hardcoded requirement of libdb-42 to instead point to simply libdb-4 to avoid the problem I ran into where my libdb was newer, however I had to symlink to an older version when LSB wants you to use the "generic" version to avoid the compatibility issues I ran into.

SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
IBM Thinkpad T41p

in SLED10, i try to shutdown using file/quit and I get the secondlife-bin process taking up the bulk of my cpu and never quitting. I have to force it down. Any ideas on how to fix that to force a clean shutdown of secondlife?

SHOCKED? EVERYONE is wanting an alternative to Windows...how can you be shocked!!! Who wants the threat of a trojan, virus or unknown issues (I think SL experienced it recently). The word is out.

Now, quit concentrating on that Windows crap and start concentrating on improving the Linux client!!!! PLEASE.

This is fixed in the release we will get on Wednesday - the preview

The Shock was meant positively. We had been on the old linux alpha client SO LONG that the incredible changes in the new alpha client were mind boggling

And don't knock Windows TOO hard - a LOT of people make GREAT money keeping it running! If it was as stable and secure as linux, they would have to earn an honest living instead of covering up for Microsoft...

Preview client: 51916

Are the following GLX extensions supposed to work or not?

2006-09-12T09:34:35Z INFO: Couldn't initialize mipmap generation
2006-09-12T09:34:35Z INFO: Couldn't initialize GL_EXT_paletted_texture
2006-09-12T09:34:35Z INFO: Couldn't initialize GL_NV_vertex_array_range
2006-09-12T09:34:35Z INFO: Couldn't initialize GL_NV_fence
2006-09-12T09:34:35Z INFO: Couldn't initialize separate specular color
2006-09-12T09:34:35Z INFO: Couldn't initialize anisotropic filtering
2006-09-12T09:34:35Z INFO: Couldn't initialize GL_ARB_occlusion_query
2006-09-12T09:34:35Z INFO: Couldn't initialize GL_ARB_shader_objects
2006-09-12T09:34:35Z INFO: Couldn't initialize GL_ARB_vertex_shader
2006-09-12T09:34:35Z INFO: Couldn't initialize GL_ARB_fragment_shader

Is it just me or is everyone getting the same?

System stats:
Ubuntu Edgy Eft(Knot) 6.10 (alpha)
Gnome 2.16.0
Linux huskeh 2.6.17-7-generic #2 SMP Wed Sep 6 14:54:50 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux
X.Org 7.0.22
NVIDIA 1.0.8774 with nvidia GLX installed.
GeForce 7900GT PCI 16x vbios 05.71.22.12.02 256MB
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2222.614 mhz 1024 KB cache
Mem 2058460k
Swap 6104692k

Hope you can help me guys, I think I' being a bit dense!

I cannot open any dialogs to upload files. The SL client spits out:

2006-09-12T10:20:41Z WARNING: Failed to set locale en_US.iso8859-1

about 10,000 times, ignoring my request for a file selection dialog.

On installation I selected British English for the Locale/keyboard settings.

I'm running an up-to-date Ubuntu 6.06 LTS system, with the official NVIDIA proprietary drivers on an AMD XP3000+, 1GB memory and an MNVIDIA 6600 GT.

Thanks for your help in advance.

RG

FIle uploads do not work yet under Linux. Please check this forum for more information on the current limitations of the Linux client.

These aren't supposed to work yet, though we have them working internally -- they won't be in tomorrow's release but probably not long after that.

So when these are enabled does that mean the Avatar rendering modes magically get enabled?

I noticed in the log that my Geforce FX 5700 is a Class 1 GPU. The vertex shader extension is disabled. I'm wondering if that's related to the fact that a CPUSlow feature mask is enabled even though my CPU is an Athlon XP 2500+ with a core frequency of 1800MHz. I thought that feature mask was for CPUs less than 1GHz?

Thanks,
Keith Russell

Yup, those and more.
It's not related to the erroneous CPUSlow; CPUSlow is pretty harmless and only dictates some first-run defaults, it doesn't actually irreversibly disable anything to my knowledge.

Good news. Thanks

could you break down a bit on this? to my best knowledge, they (openssl.org as project) are running on more platforms then e.g. Debian...

and in my department's product, it IS linked dynamically

2006-09-22T04:48:39Z WARNING: Failed to set locale en_US.utf8

The above error comes up when loading the inventory. Does anyone else have it, Windows/Mac problem as well or linux only?

Hi!This should be harmless here, and the warning will be silenced once I've verified that to be the case.

When I try to run secondlife, a funny band of distorted color appears across the screen and it crashes the system...

* Linux Distribution (Debian, Redhat, etc)
Ubuntu 6.06

* Desktop Environment (Gnome, KDE, etc)
Gnome
* Kernel info (uname -a)
Linux trippy 2.6.15-27-386 #1 PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:51:59 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

* X version (from xdpyinfo .. do not spam with all of its output)

version number: 11.0
vendor string: The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number: 70000000
X.Org version: 7.0.0

* Video driver (from your xorg.conf file, or from glxinfo .. again do not spam)
Device "VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics"

* Video card model & amount of video memory
Built-in video card from the VIA VT8623 motherboard

* CPU info (from /proc/cpuinfo... vendor_id, model name, cpu MHz, cache size)
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : VIA Samuel 2
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 799.143
cache size : 64 KB

* Amount of physical and virtual memory (from top)
Mem: 223708k
Swap: 500464k

You need hardware accelleration for running Second Life. This currently means ether a current NVidia or ATI Radeon card.