[Opensim-users] FYI - Running OpenSim on Mac

[Scott T. Norman]

The terrain was where I was seeing the  issue and causing the sim and  
viewer to crash at time. Glad to hear the issue is being looked into.  
It will probably be a while be I upgrade to Intel macs and once I do  
that I'll still have PowerPC macs to do something with. If  there is  
anything I can do to help like testing let me know. I'm not a C# or C+ 
+ programmer at all, do PHP and MySQL, but when I have the time I do  
want to start learning.

Blessings,

Scott
www.scottnorman.com

God's covenant of revival fire has fallen upon Orange County,  
California, so that the Church of Orange County will become one and  
bring healing, salvation, and redemption to the county, and to take  
part in the harvest of one billion plus souls into the Kingdom of God.  
- Scott Norman



On Feb 10, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Dr Scofield wrote:

> Scott T. Norman wrote:
>> I've been able to get OpenSim to compile on 10.4.11 and 10.5.1 on  
>> my PowerBook G4 (PowerPC) and running but have not been able to get  
>> the SecondLife Viewer to connect. Diego Zamboni on his site, http://zzamboni.org/brt/ 
>> , as been able to get OpenSim to work. He's running OpenSim on a  
>> MacBook Pro (Intel) with 10.5.1 and connect. So it may very well be  
>> issues with trying to run OpenSim on PowerPCs. Not  sure about the  
>> other servers if they work on the Intel Macs.
> we are currently trying to get a fix on this. on PPC CPUs there is  
> indeed an issue with the terrain data being served back to the  
> client --- causing the client to crash on region connect. the  
> interesting observation is that a virgin OpenSim run (i.e., rm -f  
> *.db before starting) will generate the new terrain fine; saving it  
> to a PNG file and viewing that PNG file with gimp shows nothing  
> suspicious. yet, serving that terrain to the client will make it go  
> boom. also, restarting OpenSim will then make OpenSim choke on the  
> terrain file.
>
> preliminary conclusion: serialization is borked for big endian boxes  
> (as you wrote diego's box is intel).
>
>   cheers,
>   dr scofield
>
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