Second Life fails to boot on Ubuntu

Hey all... trying Linux (Well, Ubuntu 7.04 at the very least) for the first time, and after downloading and extracting the latest SecondLife_i686_1_18_1_2 Linux installer, I try to run it. However, after clicking "run" from the prompt that asks if I want to view or run the file, nothing happens at all. I'm sure it's probably just some silly simple solution to this, but due to my inexperience with Linux, I'm not sure where to even begin when troubleshooting.

Thanks for the advice,

Talon Lardner

I thought you double click the "secondlife" file?

I had the same problem(probably). I'm under Ubuntu 7.06 and I tried to start sl from the terminal, I went to the directory where sl is installed and I typed "./secondlife" (with out " of course) and the risult is:

./secondlife: 68: bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: not found

I watched in /bin and that file is there.

Which could be the problem?
Thank you very much

Try downloading the test version to your desktop, extract it and double click "secondlife".

I tried so but nothing. I double click on it two times,ubuntu ask me if i want run it, watch it or run it in a terminal but when i click on run, ubuntu don't say nothing and sl don't run.
What can I try more?
Thank you again.

Choose "Run in a Terminal" instead of "Run" so the startup-script has a chance to give some (text) output on what's wrong.

When I do that, I see a brief flash of the terminal starting up, then quickly exiting before I get a chance to see what it says.

If you know where you unpacked secondlife, do this:

Naviagate to the following: Applications->Accessories->Terminal

If you unpacked secondlife on your desktop type: cd Desktop/SecondLife_(FULLNAME_OF_FOLDER_HERE_OR_JUST_HIT_TAB_KEY)

Now type: ./secondlife

If secondlife crashes, select the contents of the "terminal window" and post here.

Here's what I ended up with:

matt@matt-desktop:~/Desktop/SecondLife$ ./secondlife
./secondlife: 68: bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: not found

*********************************************************
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:
/invalid_link.html
Please see README-linux.txt before reporting problems.

matt@matt-desktop:~/Desktop/SecondLife$

Did you fully extract the .tar.bz2 file or just the "secondlife" file?

I thought I did extract the whole thing, but I'll give it a second extracting just to be safe.

Hmm... no luck yet. I'll try redownloading.

edit: Nope, even with a fresh download of the linux client, it still shows me the same text.

As I wrote at the top of this post, I tried yet in a terminal and I have always the same result as it's written in the quote and it happen to Talon Lardner.
Are there others things that i can try? Thank you very much

are you on a 64bit System? See here: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1429

Yes, I'm on 64bit system and I did how it was written in the link that you posted and now SL (seems) runs!

Thank you very much for your help!!

You're welcome

For those who still cant get SL to run on Ubuntu, try opening the "secondlife" script and replace "sh" with "bash" at the first line.

-Asriazh

Should http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-379 be reopened?

At the very least, an error message should be added. It took me a while to find this forum post, and the Jira entry. A more informative error message would have saved me 1-2 hours.
./secondlife: 68: bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: not found

I don't know if it is possible to add an error message for this problem, but I know that it is possible to add a shell-level error message for other similiar problems. For example, if you have the ia32 package, but do not have the ia32-gtk package, you get this error:
~/SecondLife_i686_1_18_1_2$ ./secondlife
bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The part about "error while loading shared libraries: libgtk" is golden.

-Adz

Thanks for the reports, see:
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2436

I have an old Notebook here, Intel Pentium M 1,3 GHz, ATI Mobility 7500 32MB and 1GB RAM with Ubuntu 7.04 and a Gnome Desktop.

I just extracted all into a folder, started secondlife from the shell and all went fine..

Well.. hardware is a bit low, but it is ok if you just want to sen an IM or so...

The problem is 64-bit computers running 64-bit Linux need to install 32-bit compatibility mode. Otherwise SL fails silently. Many linux users have 32-bit hardware, or have already installed 32-bit compatability drivers, named "ia32",. The problem comes up when, like me, you install linux on 64-bit CPU and SecondLife is the first 32-bit application you try to run.

Thanks for creating that. Do I need to add any specific comments about my problem? From the title of the entry, it looks like you understood the problem.

I think it's pretty much in-hand, but thanks!

forgive me if this is a RTFM post, Im new to linux.

I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 on amd64

I extracted the tar file to the desktop (as intructed - but this seems an untidy place to put applications?)

It crashes silently ( as reported earlier in this thread)

I tried using synaptic to install the "ia32" package, but it refuses - with a message saying that
" the following packages have unresolved dependencies"

ia32-libs:
Depends: lib32stdc++6 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32gcc1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lib32z1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libc6-i386 but it is not going to be installed

If I were a bodger, I'd just install those dependancies and see where that gets me...
but im not, so i wont

Umm.. guys what if ur not 64-bit.. im having probs