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

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Wed Apr 2 19:24:17 PDT 2008


Thomas Grimshaw wrote:
> Carsten Juttner wrote:
>> 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. 
> When a user logs off, the simulator has to send all of the users' 
> session data back to the grid, before the user can be acknowledged as 
> offline. If you see "the system is logging you out right now", this is 
> still in progress.
>
> Since second life has had major asset issues today..   (when doesn't 
> it? *cough*).. it stands to reason that something on the sim may have 
> stagnated. I would suggest adding a timeout to user logout, perhaps a 
> jira?

An attempt to log in while your avie is already in world is supposed to 
log the current avie out of the system. Since that's not happening, I 
don't think a timeout will do the trick either.


Lawson


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