[opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

[Andromeda Quonset]

Trilo,

I had the ???'s displaying last night on my friends list for quite 
awhile, and I have never had a Display Names capable viewer even 
installed.  The version 1.xx viewer I use predates by several months, 
and I am posting to let anyone know that the problem is not "only 
appears to be happening on Display Names capable viewers".

Andro

At 09:46 AM 12/29/2010, Trilo Byte wrote:
>It's not you, it's been happening to others.  A lot.
>
>Before Christmas it happened much less frequently, but since then 
>the phenomenon's been occurring at least once a day.  Sometimes 
>they're ??? at login, sometimes they show properly at first and then 
>flip to ??? on their own.  Sometimes the ???'s remain throughout the 
>session, and sometimes they flip back to show the correct names.  It 
>happens regardless of whether the user has a Display Name set or not.
>
>I've also noticed that if someone with a ??? name types an action in 
>group chat (line starting with /me) it displays their user 
>name.  Also, sometimes, if you look up the profile of a person 
>showing ??? it shows the correct name on the profile.  As far as I 
>can tell, it's a server-side condition that only appears to be 
>happening on Display Names capable viewers.
>
><https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/DN-202>https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/DN-202
>
>On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:36 AM, Ponzu wrote:
>
>>....Last night I was using the 2.5 beta I had just built from the 
>>weekend's changes, and this odd thing happened...
>>
>>I logged in.  My friends list showed ???.  (Odd, the pictures load 
>>OK, but not the names.)  I had been logged in about 15 minutes.
>>
>>Then I got an IM from Grumpity Productengine.  So far as I know, I 
>>don't know Grumpity.  I assumed it was someone from this list.  The 
>>text of the message was something like, "Hi.  I was between 
>>Highland and La Brea on Franklin, so I thought of you."  This 
>>message is significant to me, but I don't know how any 
>>Productengines would know that.
>>
>>So, I started having a conversation with Grumpity, trying to hide 
>>my embarrassment about not really knowing who it was.
>>
>>After two or three minutes, I noticed that Grumpity was now 
>>???.  After a bit of conversation, I finally figured out I was 
>>talking to a friend named Aphrodite Tagore.  After ten minutes 
>>more, the ??? changed to Aphrodite Tagore and all was more or less 
>>normal (snafu 8-).
>>
>>No, I do not have a repro.  No, I was not stoned beyond oblivion.
>>
>>Just reporting on the off chance that someone will find the 
>>information useful for debugging some display name problem or something.
>>
>>regards,
>>ponzu
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