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

[Thomas Grimshaw]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 2008-04-03, at 17:34, Lawson English wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Perhaps, and yet sending an instant message can often force the 
> process to complete.
That will only show the user as offline to the person who sent the IM.

~T