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Linux client 1.12.1(8)(linux-52268) available!
Tofu Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 471
09-14-2006 09:44
Mandatory update available from the download page - addresses the core gotchas from yesterday's release. Enjoy.

Release Notes for Second Life 1.12.1(8)(linux-52268) September 14, 2006
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Bug fixes:
* Fixed an issue causing large amounts of packet loss to occur when downloading textures
* Resolved a crash when seeing other avatars
* Fixed a bug causing low framerate in some regions

Release Notes for Second Life 1.12.1(7) September 13, 2006
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Bug fixes:
* Resolved an issue where avatar textures would not bake
Major Senior
Registered User
Join date: 12 Apr 2006
Posts: 104
Automatic updates
09-14-2006 09:48
No idea if the SecondLife auto-update for Linux works yet (I haven't attempted to use it in so long ....). Anyway, the slupdate in slutils was fixed to handle the new (and the old) directory naming. Alas, I wasn't able to update it on SecondTux yet, so if you guys use it still, its available on http://lepercolony.ocgnet.org/wiki/slutils
Elbereth Witte
Registered User
Join date: 13 Apr 2006
Posts: 20
09-14-2006 09:57
Wow, first try was interesting, ended up in a watery void. :-)

Second try worked it seems.
Peter Suisei
Registered User
Join date: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 1
09-15-2006 01:14
This one is comparable in performance to the Windows version for me, and I didn't even need to make a bunch of symlinks to libraries. So I'm quite ahppy with this version. Mind you, I only tried this one and the last one, and the last one apparently had quite severe gotchas. The packet loss I was getting was huge, but I thought that was just SecondLife in general.
Mischa McCellan
Registered User
Join date: 15 Aug 2006
Posts: 1
works fine for me
09-15-2006 04:18
I only have linux on my hardware, so i am happy with the progress...
keep doing what your doing :)
Dominic Webb
Differential Engineer
Join date: 1 Feb 2006
Posts: 73
09-15-2006 04:21
From: someone
sauron@mordor:/tmp/SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_8> ./secondlife
bin/secondlife-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4' not found (required by bin/secondlife-bin)
bin/secondlife-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3' not found (required by bin/secondlife-bin)
sauron@mordor:/tmp/SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_8>


So who do I pay off to get libstdc++ 3.4 bundled?

Or remove the 3.4 dependency. I do have libstdc++ installed, and the client worked fine 2 weeks ago (before I went on vacation).


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Drake Bacon
Linux is Furry
Join date: 13 Jul 2005
Posts: 443
09-15-2006 07:14
Dominic, what is your distro and what "gcc -v" reports?
Dominic Webb
Differential Engineer
Join date: 1 Feb 2006
Posts: 73
09-15-2006 10:17
From: Drake Bacon
Dominic, what is your distro and what "gcc -v" reports?

SuSE 9.1 (I know it's outdated, I can't update due to some other dependencies).
From: someone
sauron@mordor:~> gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit i586-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)



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Llauren Mandelbrot
Twenty-Four Weeks Old.
Join date: 26 Apr 2006
Posts: 665
Makin` Progress!
09-15-2006 16:08
Good work. I have only a few release-specific problems that I`ve identified so far:
  1. I still needed to add libSDL-1.2.so.0 from a previous install.
  2. Logging in tells me that there is an optional update 1.12.1.9 available [it isn`t].
  3. Objects with scripted movement tend to update irregularly [probably not Linux-specific].
  4. Other UI elements are stealing focus from the Chat Bar again [definitely not Linux-specific].
  5. Alt-Tab no longer works to LEAVE Second Life.
  6. I can no longer access the Alt-F3 window menu [click on the icon in the left end of the title bar] from the keyboard shortcut. This makes restoring the Window Border difficult, as the icon is not *there* when the window is borderless.
  7. I can also confirm that pressing Alt [I don`t remember about Ctrl] with the pointer placed outside the window improperly moves the mouse pointer [at least when SL is the active window; I don`t recall what it does when something ELSE is active].
Some things that I`ve noticed working RIGHT:
  1. Textures now download much faster.
  2. The Presence Server seems to be much more reliable.
I have not yet tested the clipboard features, so I cannot comment on them, but if they work as advertized [and I expect that they do] then I expect to be making HEAVY use of them. :)

Do the new texture-loading speed-ups affect initial loading of ambient sounds any? It`d be cool if they loaded sounds sooner on first use, too! Even if they don`t, I`m pleased to be able to *hear* sounds at all!


Over all, despite the humongous mess that this "upgrade" was, I think that you`re moving in the right general direction, even if it isn`t as quickly as we impatient residents would prefer.