SL Keeping Me From Logging Off?

Last night I was in-world for a short while. After I closed the viewer I logged off my machine as usual. Getting up in the middle of the night it seemed like the computer fan was running a little harder than usual when logged off but I was bleary and didn't think more about it. This morning I checked into it and found it hadn't completely logged out of Windows but that it was stuck at the "saving your information" portion of the process.

I've noticed in the past after being logged in to SL that it seems to take a long time for the program to "get out of the way" so I can log off my computer. Could the program be damaging my system? Should I be taking additional steps, perhaps killing processes with the Task Manager after using it? Would restarting my machine after every use make any difference?

When I only had 512 of memory SL would take forever to close out even after the window had closed. I would have to use task manager to close it out. That has stioopped since I put 2 more GB's of RAM in. Killing background programs is a definite help, I disable everything I can.

Lately I've found that SL seems to hang more often than close clean when shutting down. I don't think its your machine. Most likely memory leaks in the software.

OMG the client or viewer UI coding has become that poorly written? I know as some other said here the client hangs during log off. OMG i know things have been bad, but to cause that sort of crap is uncalled for. I had this happen to me 2 years ago, its not your computer its the UI coding that stopping the process of log off....The client at times can`t logout properly at times ( more like 70% of the time ). This is getting old!

Nicholaz has a new version out.

This happens in the Mac version, too. Fortunately for me, it is quite easy to detect because the dock icon still shows the program as active. I usually have to "Force Quit" more than once to get it to actually die.

That is a known issue with Windows - it is not SL.

Happens to windows *intermittantly* whether you run SL or not.

Macintosh System 6.x through 9.x used to do this intermittantly, too. Fortunately OSX is rock-solid and I never see this anymore.

Ava Glasgow: your system my be out of whack. Run your Disk Utility and repair permissions on your drive. Will likely fix that issue. Disk utility is inside the "Utilities" folder, inside the "Applications" folder. (Don't mean to insult you if you know this already - just trying to be helpful.)

To the original poster:
Go into SL. Do your thang and then exit SL. Do some other thangs. Shutdown your computer and wait and see if it turns your machine off. It's a craps-shoot at this point, but SL has nothing to do with it.

(Full disclosure: no I'm not an SL developer, so yes - I could be wrong. But I am in I.T. and have been for many years (ok, I helped beta test MS Windows 3.1 LOL) and I see the instance where Windows fails to turn off the computer all the time - as though Windows thinks it has turned it off.)

Sorry, I was unclear. I meant that SL doesn't fully quit on its own sometimes, not that its failure to quit prevents me from shutting down the computer (which it does not... it just forces SL to quit then).