[sldev] JIRA: Blockers (crash after login)

[Harold Brown]

For crash issues like this, people really should be using the crash reporter
tool as it can gather the information needed by LL's to isolate and fix the
problems.  A JIRA bug report on a random crash without a solid reproduction
is not something that will be able to be diagnosed or fixed.




On 6/19/07, Able Whitman <able.whitman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> At least some of the crash-on-startup issues are related to certain ATI
> video chipsets. In some cases, disabling vertex shaders seems to fix the
> problem. For me, this issue only affects the WindLight firstlook viewer, and
> disabling vertex shaders didn't help.
>
> Of course, I tried the "update to the latest drivers" bit, but the latest
> ATI drivers caused my XPSP2 system to bluescreen about every hour or so, and
> even then, it didn't fix the WindLight viewer crash. Needless to say, I
> reverted to the previous version :)
>
> All of this is to say that I'd be cautious about lumping all the
> crash-on-startup bugs together without first gathering some data that
> indicates that they're similar in root cause, not just in repro.
>
> --Able
>
> On 6/19/07, Gary Wardell <gwardell at gwsystems.co.il> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is a common theme that I picked up.
> >
> > They seemed to either start or got worse with release 1.14, and got
> > progressively worse with each new release to date.
> >
> > I am able to reproduce some of the problems, the hangs, on my
> > workstation and I was going to try to work on them, but, alas, I'm
> > swamped with RL work now and not able to finish getting my build
> > environment to going.
> >
> > I agree that it could be video related.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com
> > > [mailto:sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com]On Behalf Of Jason Giglio
> > > Sent: Tue, June 19, 2007 5:26 PM
> > > To: Dzonatas
> > > Cc: sldev at lists.secondlife.com
> > > Subject: Re: [sldev] JIRA: Blockers (crash after login)
> > >
> > >
> > > Dzonatas wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Here is a list of currently open and reopened jira issues marked as
> > > > blockers.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I have gone through these, resolved almost half of them, commented on
> > > most of them, voted on some.
> > >
> > > There is a big recurring theme though.
> > >
> > > "SL Crashes shortly after logging in" is a big problem still
> > > for a lot
> > > of people.  It looks like it may have multiple causes, but
> > > seems to be
> > > video related generally.
> > >
> > > These bugs could be merged into one bug, but it's not clear
> > > it's all the
> > > same problem there.
> > >
> > > -Jason
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