[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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