SL Freezing Ubuntu

I'm very new at the Linux and Ubuntu experience, so plese be patient with me for all those wonderful nice people that will help me

-I start sl as usual, play for a bit, then suddenly my whole system becomes unresponsive, both keyboard and mouse, and my programs, and I have to hold down my power button to restart the system. Although I am pretty sure it is SL that is causing this crashing. And sometimes the sessions last longer than others. If you need anymore info, please tell me what you need, and how I give it to you

EDIT: Just happened again, only had Firefox and SL running, could it be Firefox that is interfering?

EDIT^: The problem is almost gaurenteed to be related to Firefox...

EDIT2: I also seem to be crashing every 5 minutes now too...And with just SL running my system doesnt freeze, even though I do have Rhytmbox Music Player running, not Firefox this time.

Thanks in advance,
Martin

bump...

If you are on a memory constrained system you may be experiencing crashes due to running out of memory. I run gimp, firefox and rhythmbox all the time while playing SL, but I have 2GB of ram :\

I do experience crashes occasionally, usually signal 11s.

I have 1792MB of RAM...Shouldn't that be enough?

I have 1gig of ram and run ubuntu 7.04 (but it was doing the same in ubuntu 6.10). And I have noticed that the SL client will expand to fill all memory and then system will be completely unresponsive, either I need to slowly bring up a terminal and kill -9 the sl process, or I simply do ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the X session and all running X apps and relog in.

Depending on the sim (the busier the faster) it can take between 15 minutes to an hour, but it will fill up and then it will slow to a crawl (refreshing the display once every several minutes) until I kill it.

It was not doing it several months ago, but it has been getting worse and worse with each new release.

Added 05-04-2007>
This happens on two different computer. One is a Pentium 4 3.0ghz with Hyperthreading. It has an ATI 9600xt/128M and 512M of main ram. It runs ubuntu 6.10
My main computer is a Pentium 4 D 2.66ghz with 1gig of ram with an Nvidia 6800gs.
Both will fill out memory and slow down to a crawl.

Original poster: Same crashing here, on Kubuntu 7.04. One thing I'd suggest is that you never make a post requesting support without posting your hardware and architecture. Having said that, consider this post a bump on the original request; furthermore, here are my specs.

Pentium D 3.0GHz
2GB 667MHz DDRII RAM
Asus GeForce 8800GTS
Kubuntu 7.04 x86

-Tiyuk

EDIT: I must add that this is necessarily a hardware-dependent problem. I am running the exact same Kubuntu software on my Lenovo ThinkPad X60, and the latest SL client does not hang. It is rock-solid on this computer. The specs for the laptop are located on my website.

I tried SL on my Ubuntu at home (instead of centos at work) and I got the same freeze. My specs are:

Sempron 2800+
1GB Ram
X700 pro
Ubuntu 7.4 64-bit (32-bit compatibility libraries installed as well)

I was thinking that the problem was probably with the binary driver that Ubuntu installed for my ATI card. However, I noticed some nvidia hardware in this thread too.

I will check and post the exact kernel version tonight. Maybe there is something concerning the Ubuntu ditribution in particular.

Max

editing my previous post doesn't seem to work today...

I want to add that I did an upgrade from the previous installation, not a fresh install. Maybe it's related to that.

Max

in the README file, the following is written:


PROBLEM 2:- My whole system seems to hang when running Second Life.
SOLUTION:- This is typically a hardware/driver issue. The first thing to
do is to check that you have the most recent official drivers for your
graphics card (see PROBLEM 1).
SOLUTION:- Some residents with ATI cards have reported that running
'sudo aticonfig --locked-userpages=off' before running Second Life solves
their stability issues.
SOLUTION:- As a last resort, you can disable most of Second Life's advanced
graphics features by editing the 'secondlife' script and removing the '#'
from the line which reads '#export LL_GL_NOEXT=x'



Hope it helps!

I've tried playing SL on 3 different computers all running Ubuntu Feisty system.
Low end machine '1GHz - 512Mb - GeForce 2 MX' can run it quite nicely as well as my '1.8GHz - 1Gb - GeForce 6600' BUT '1.8GHz - 256Mb - GeForce 4' is doing exactly same thing you mentioned in the first post. Using windowed mode instead of fullscreen seems to help a bit. Crashes don't happen quite as often.
I tried replacing GeForce 4 with my GeForce 6600 and ran SL for about 20 minutes and everything worked nicely. That leads me to believe the GPU is the cause of all that is evil. It's not about the lack of power since GeForce2MX works but supposedly better GeForce4 doesn't.

But Ubuntu system with ATI card? Oh my god! I didn't it even works. If you can sell your ATI and buy Nvidia instead without losing too much money I'd do it right away. ATI driver support for Ubuntu is nonexistent. Nvidia ain't too good either but is making some kind of progress.
If you're not playing too many games you could try and buy some older Nvidia card (or borrow one from a friend) you could try if it works.

Hope you get things figured out.

On the current alpha (weird how the "beta" Linux client is newer and rawer than the Linux "alpha" client, huh?) Linux client, I've had at least four instances of the client crashing and taking X windows with it, in a way that seems to prevent it from cleanly shutting down.

Configuration:

Sempron 2400 (yeah, Socket A--sob)
nVidia 7600 GS AGP card with 512 MB RAM
1 GB RAM

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
nvidia-glx-new 1.0.9755+2.6.20.5-15.20

A couple of times the screen has become corrupted, looking, if you're old, like a TV with horizontal hold misadjusted, or if you're not old, as if the graphics card switched modes so that the screen image is scrambled. ctrl-alt-bs takes down the X server, but when it tries to start again, I'm told ":0 is busy, should I try :1?" (I have a monitor that can switch between two inputs; maybe I should hook up the other head to it and say "yes".)

I log in on a text window, and try to shutdown with

sudo shutdown -r now

and find problems with /dev/initramfs; the shutdown hangs part of the way through, and I have to reset.

New user to Linux too. Running Kubuntu 7.04, and I really haven't had any problems with SL on my machine. The only big one is that textures become corrupt after a while. If I accidentally minimize SL, it sometimes takes a few moments to pop back up after I maximize it. Also, SL grabs hold of my sound card and won't let go while it's running.

Athlon64 x2 3200
2gb RAM
GeForce 6600GT 128mb
9631 nvidia drivers.

I'm not seeing problems UNLESS I try to run FireFox at the same time as SL, and even then the worst I have seen is SL (or FF) just closing. I have to be using FF heavily ... like downloading lots of big pix for a long time/

64-bit AMD Athlon with 2G of RAM
NVIDIA 7600GS video card 512MB of RAM
Samsung 19-inch LCD monitor with 1280x1024 resolution

Mobo has built-in sound and Ethrnet

It's less trouble than undr Win2K on the same system, where I can't open the music stream in Luskwood without crashing in a few minutes.

After several days of struggling with the proper packages to allow v 7.04 KUbuntu-i386 and Ubuntu-x64 to open Second Life, things seem to be working well. I have not given Linux a chance to run marathon in SL log in (18 hours or more.)

Suggestion- Someone that knows the technical jargon should prepare a guide for people that want to run Second Life in Linux OS.
You know, get SWF, VR, VM, GNU, XPE, etc. packages to insure that Second Life will operate.
First time with the basic Ubuntu download was frustrating, running Second Life according to directions did nothing, not even an error window.

SL feels and looks the same as in Windows, inventory is just as slow to load, if not a bit slower. Some custom scanned images are slower to load (trees, windows, statues, pictures, etc.) in Linux, but so far, no major complaints of differences. After getting the correct packages, sound, video and motion are no different that the Windows experience.

AMD 64 3000
2 Gig Ram
MSI- Nvidia GeForce 5500-256
On board Sound & Lan

DK

I can observe with system monitor the SL process increasing in memory size rapidly (filling 1gb within a minute) after logging in. System is Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04, Toshiba Satellite pro 6100 1 gb RAM, NVidia video using restricted driver. Was working perfectly on this system prior to 1.16.05/6. No apparent correlation with having/not having Firefox open. More objects in the region seems to = faster memory fill.

I just started having trouble today with running SL on Kubuntu Fiesty 7.04. It was working fine up until this morning, and then just now in the evening SL freezes when logging in, at the "Connecting to Region" point.

I'm betting it's the new that got released on the repositories today. I just updated that on my system this afternoon. Not sure if that helps figure this all out, but I felt that it's a clue on what happened.

I have the very same problem. I can lock up 15 times in 10 minutes or I can run for 3 hours before it happen. There seems to be no way to reproduce the problem at will. I have tried turning off local lights. I've turns off bumpmap and shine. Sounds and video are disabled. Only once in an estimated 50 crashed has the system responded after. I will say that it tends to happen more rapidly if firefox is open as well. I also note that when this lock up happens that the Cap Lock and Scroll Lights on the keyboard will blink in unison like it is some form of error code.

My hardware profile:

P4 3.06 Hyper-threaded (478 pin)
1.5 GB DDR 400 (dual channeled)
GeForce4 - 8200 with 256MB (Nvidia 9755 drivers)

Linux version 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6