The option "-multiple" doesn't work

Since people seems to have problems running ONE instance of SL, this bug report might seem greedy, but I'll give it a shot anyway:

I am running Linux Client Alpha 1.14.0.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. The hardware is a Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 processor and a GeForce 7600GT Fatal1ty 256MB GDDR3 PCIe graphics adapter, and Nvidias "non-free" driver.

First, I am happy to say that ALMOST everything seems to be working beautifully so far. The client runs smoothly, everything seems to be working and the stabillity is at least equal to that of Windows XP and that client.

But the problem comes when I try to log in from two accounts, running two instances of the client. It is no problem starting the client with the "-multiple"-option, and I even get to start two instances of the client.

But when I log in with client number two, it dies swiftly and silently. Client number one seems quite unaffected, though - and usally continue to run until I shut it down.

Well, not a big problem, and maybe too much to ask from alpha software - just thought I would mention it.

And yeah - if I could donate to the SL Linux client development, I would be happy to!

If you run more than one instance on one machine, SL needs a separate connection for each instance; this means, the default port of 13000 cannot be used for both clients.

Using the "-port 13002" parameter in addition to the "-multiple" parameter for the second instance will allow two distinct connections; best would be specifying the port explicitly for both clients - ports 13000 to 13008 seem to work OK. Of course, the "-multiple" parameter is required for both.

Some people have reported issues with the cache being used simultaneously by two distinct SL clients; if this is an issue, then a separate install of SL in a separate directory would help. I cannot say how much of an issue this is, since I only go in to SL with 2 clients on one PC for brief periods, when I need 2 avs at once to set something up

Theres a way to do do this in windows on a shortcut but I cant remember the format or how to do it can some help

course im not looking at windows right this moment but right click the shortcut choose propertys and look for the run command (something like "c:\program files\secondlife\secondlife.exe"

Tina: "-multiple" works fairly OK in Windows, yeah - but I'm trying to get rid of that OS for many reasons, so everything that can be done in Ubuntu _will_ be done in Ubuntu on my machines

Angel: Setting the port numbers helped somewhat, thank you very much. With the "-port"-option, I was able to log in from two accounts at the same time. But still at least one of the client instances crashed after a while.

However, commenting out the "export LL_GL_BASICEXT=x" from the startup script made the crashes less frequent, so I'm presuming the problem might be unstable code or something?

Still _one_ instance at a time runs smoothly, and that it after all what I use the most

This could be problems with cache being used by two SL Clients at once. It may be worth trying two separate installs to get rid of a possible cache conflict, if you plan to use two clients frequently.

I was able to run 2 clients fairly smoothly. But it looks like it works best if you start em in parallel (ie logging in at the same time) as I got some xml errors while 1 was running. I will try running 2 installs when the new release is put out