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

[Lawson English]

Thomas Grimshaw wrote:
> Lawson English wrote:
>> Thomas Grimshaw wrote:
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>>> 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.
> This only applies if the system hasn't already initiated the logout 
> process.  The timeout I am referring to would be a timeout of the 
> actual logout procedure.
>
> ~T
>
>
I know, but if the system doesn't respond to the second login attempt by 
completing the logout, then a timer to trigger completing the logout 
probably won't work all the way through the system either since it would 
use the same communications protocols to finish the logout. The whole 
idea of the asynchronous logout is to allow all the parts of the system 
to finish bookkeeping. You can't simply stop that process in its tracks 
without risking even more issues with various parts of the server system 
being de-synched from each other or so I would expect.


Lawson