Settings not saved since recent RC and WindLight Viewers.

Since the "new" login screen non of my settings have been saved. My guess is a new type of "directory" service is being used and it is not populating or reading right on my machine. Everything else works like a charm, it just wipes all my settings every time it starts up :\

I remember seeing something about a KDE directory service error at the very top but it doesn't seem to replicate on the recent releases.

OS: FC8 64bit
CPU: AMD Opteron 165
Ram: 2GB
GPU: Geforce 7900GS

My guess is it has something to do with:

$ cat SecondLife.log | grep .xml
2007-12-25T03:15:26Z INFO: init: Loading configuration file /home/sakkaku/.secondlife/user_settings/settings_windlight.xml
2007-12-25T03:15:26Z WARNING: parseFile: Error while parsing file /home/sakkaku/.secondlife/user_settings/settings_windlight.xml
2007-12-25T03:15:26Z WARNING: loadFromFile: Unable to open control file /home/sakkaku/.secondlife/user_settings/settings_windlight.xml
2007-12-25T03:15:26Z INFO: init: Failed to load settings from /home/sakkaku/.secondlife/user_settings/settings_windlight.xml


settings_windlight.xml appears to be well formed but it appears to be erroring out on reading it.

i would suggest trying deleting the .secondlife directory completely and let the new client to regenerate it.. that might solve the problem...
also (a more stupid idea) check the permissions on the .secondlife directory and its files.

p.s. i would go with the first idea.

One thing which will cause the "Error parsing file" line (and the subsequent discarding of all your settings) is if you turn off the "Warn about lack of payment info" popup in Preferences. When you do this, SL writes the following line into ~/.secondlife/user_settings/settings_windlight.xml:

<WarnCannot enter parcel: no payment info on file value="FALSE"/>

The spaces in the token name are invalid XML. The next time SL runs, it encounters the malformed token and apparently discards all the settings in the file, rather than ignoring the offending line.