[sldev] why can an avatar get stuck (unable to log back in and not getting logged out)?

[Carsten Juttner]

Hi,

since my avatar is currently stuck in-world I wonder how a login is 
handled on the server side.

By stuck I mean the system keeps telling on logon that "The system is 
logging you out right now. Your account will not be available until...". 
The avatar is also clearly visible in-world and appears logged on to 
friends until they send an IM at which point they are told the avatar is 
offline and message will be stored. Right after, the online status 
changes to offline in the viewer.

It happened right after a teleport, the world was starting to appear and 
the client was still receiving updates and chat from people around it 
but at one point the updates for the world seemed to have stopped (part 
of it was already visible but some of the building structure was still 
missing).

The weird thing is that chat and agent updates were still received but I 
was unable to move or teleport out (trying a neighbour region it would 
tell me: "Could not teleport. Problem encountered processing your 
teleport request. You may need to log back in before you can teleport" 
and trying to go somewhere else would show the teleport screen with 
updating progress bar but at some point later it would simply drop back 
to the client world view).

I actually did not try to log back on for about 5 hours.

I still have the viewer log from that session but I do not see anything 
unusual.

Seems this is happening rarely as referenced in 
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-604

Think there is nothing much to do on the client side but I find it 
intriguing that a condition exists where the server keeps the avatar 
logged in even though the network connection is no longer present.


Regards,
Carsten