[opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

[Brian McGroarty]

This was related to a brief load server configuration problem yesterday.
This is unrelated to the problem that's taken over this thread.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Trilo Byte <trilobyte550m at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very interesting - what specific Viewer & version are you running?  The
> only 1.x Viewers I've heard of that are also experiencing the problem are
> recent builds of Phoenix (which are Display Names capable).
>
> On Dec 29, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Andromeda Quonset wrote:
>
> 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
>
> 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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