HAVE YOU HAD INVENTORY LOSS?, originally uploaded by MOFSL.

What a last week! As you can see in an old post, Second Life has more bugs than a Roach Motel! A part of the Windlight First Look client (with the normal bugs in a test client, well, maybe a bit more bugs) the bugs were mainly in the Asset servers (not sure if it has a relation with Windlight, maybe is just a coincidence), but not only in them as you can see in the following posts from the Official Linden Blog from Nov, 17th to today:

Nice, right? This just in 5 days. Of course i’m not complaining about the information, just complaining about the issues. Specially the Asset performance one, objects take a lot of time to rezz or to delete (if they finally do, of course, because yesterday was impossible to delete one prim while i was building). And that really bothering issues with Inventory, that’s why i posted this image by MOFSL, and i ask you to vote on issue SVC-114 on the SL jira.

In the other side, Kean Kelly published this post in her blog with some really useful “workarounds”. Worried about missing inventory i’d like to paste this comment by Arteer Oliva on SVC-553:

An “angel” sent me this solution today. It worked for me this first time I tried it. I have been getting the “Missing from Database” messages for four weeks. Tried all The Labs solutions to no avail. This one form the “angel” worked for me. Not guaranteed, but worth a try, right! Go for it! Wooohooo!”If you realize that you have missing inventory, follow the steps below as soon as possible.1. If you do not yet have it installed, install the latest Beta Client.

secondlife.com/community/preview.php

2. Login to the Beta Grid and find a quiet place where no one will annoy you while you are trying to solve a problem.

DO NOT REZ ANYTHING WHILE ON THE BETA GRID. GO INTO BUSY MODE IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT ACCEPT ITEMS, DO NOT DELETE ITEMS, DO NOT PASS OR RENAME ITEMS.

3. Open your inventory, type in a search term (I used Tree) and allow your inventory to populate.

4. Got your goods back? Awesome! Quit the Beta client, login to the Main Grid and do the same thing. Once you have retrieved your items on the Main Grid and your inventory has fully populated, clear cache, logout and see cache’ing as you …

5. Log back into the Main Grid, recheck inventory, smile a lot, raise Hell as usual.

This technique has been proven to work more than half the time so it may save your hide. Please bear in mind that you should only expect positive results if you attempt this workaround as soon as possible upon discovery of your missing items. I am not guaranteeing that you will be able to recover your items but having at least a chance at doing so is much better than no chance at all. I hope this helps some of the residents that fall victim to this issue.”

So i’m hopping this buggy week ends soon… but…

After talking about all that, after all the hope, i’d like you read this words by Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden) in CNET news last august when asked about the technical problems in Second Life. The articles says:

“…Linden Lab, too, is a bit unapologetic about its technical headaches, promising that it has been working to eradicate them but encouraging both current and prospective residents to accept them as a necessary component of such an experimental medium. Second Life got to where it is, Rosedale explained, by not waiting for the kinks to iron themselves out.

“If we had had that sort of traditional “stop, think carefully, seek feedback, listen to everybody” (mentality), I can tell you that as the entrepreneur behind this thing, even starting in 1999, we wouldn’t be here. We wouldn’t have made it,”. Rosedale said…”

Enough clear, right? Personally i imagine Philip showing up one finger while saying this words.

 UPDATE (NOV, 22nd): Philip Linden wrote a post in the Official Linden Blog about last week stability problems, i think is important to read.

Share this:
  • Twitter
  • del.icio.us
  • Technorati
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Ping.fm
  • Digg
  • Facebook
  • StumbleUpon
  • Tumblr