[Opensim-users] Having problems with uploads when runningOpenSim under Windows

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Chris Kennedy wrote:
> Aha, makes sense :) Thank you very much, I will try that.
> 

"shutdown" and "quit" are hardwired to exactly the same routine at an extremely low level in OpenSim, so executing one or the other won't actually make any difference.

Unfortunately, I don't have an answer to what's going wrong here.  The fact that it works sometimes would seem to suggest some kind of race condition in the OpenSim code.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Karen Palen" <karen_palen at yahoo.com>
> To: <opensim-users at lists.berlios.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Having problems with uploads when 
> runningOpenSim under Windows
> 
> 
> Try using "shutdown" rather than "quit"
> 
> On some versions "quit" did not update the database before shutting
> down!
> 
> There also seem to be some SQL level problems as well although I have not 
> yet been able to isolate them. I find that items sometimes simply "lose" 
> their textures and appear as white. I am unable to reproduce that effect 
> consitently, once I do I will add a JIRA report.
> 
> Karen
> 
> --- On Tue, 2/9/10, Chris Kennedy <mewtwo0641 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Chris Kennedy <mewtwo0641 at cox.net>
>> Subject: [Opensim-users] Having problems with uploads when running OpenSim 
>> under Windows
>> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
>> Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 10:59 PM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I am having trouble
>> with uploading animations,
>> textures, sounds, etc to OpenSim when running it under
>> Windows.
>> About a third to half of
>> the time I upload anything
>> to OpenSim, it takes a few seconds longer than usual to
>> upload
>> the data (especially
>> noticable when performing a
>> bulk upload of said data). That in itself isn't too
>> worrisome to
>> me,
>> but, if I log off OpenSim,
>> shut the server down
>> using the 'quit' command and restart it, and log
>> back into OpenSim,
>> the data that I uploaded
>> appears to be gone. The
>> inventory objects referring to the data appears to still be
>> in
>> inventory,
>> but the data that it
>> refers to on the asset server
>> seems to be null and void.
>>
>> For instance, if I
>> uploaded a few (say
>> 10 to 20) textures with the bulk import
>> command, log off, shut
>> down and restart the server, and log back in;
>> I can still see that the
>> textures I uploaded are
>> still apparently in my inventory, but if I try to open them
>> to view the
>> textures, all
>> it gives me is a blank
>> white texture that is
>> 256x256 in size. Same goes for animations and sounds that
>> don't appear to
>> upload
>> correctly; except the
>> animations won't play and the
>> sounds won't play if it was a "bad"
>> upload. I've tried clearing my viewer
>> cache and relogging,
>> but the data is still
>> gone.
>>
>> I can tell it will be a
>> bad upload when using bulk
>> because it takes quite a few seconds longer per file to
>> upload than
>> usual.
>> The server output seems to
>> be normal in that it is
>> acknowledging that it is receiving the uploaded data... But
>> the persistance
>> of
>> it seems to be gone about
>> a third to half of the
>> time I upload data. I can access the data that was
>> uploaded perfectly
>> fine... as long as I
>> do not log off and/or
>> restart the server. Other
>> times the data will persist fine between logging and/or
>> restarting the server
>> (this is characterized
>> by the data uploading at a
>> quick and steady pace
>> rather than hesitating between each upload).
>>
>> I've double checked my
>> MySQL, OpenSim.ini, and also
>> my Cenome Cache settings, every thing seems to be in
>> working
>> order.
>> I am using the same
>> settings in the server I run on
>> Linux32 with Mono and uploads do not exhibit this
>> strange behaviour with
>> Linux.
>> Have not changed any
>> settings in MySQL except for
>> the Max Packet Size which I changed from 1 MB to
>> 16 MB to allow
>> database
>> backup and
>> restore.
>>
>> Specs for my Windows OS
>> installation:
>> OpenSim git revision
>> r12198 (have tried others
>> as well) on .NET Framework
>> Windows 7
>> 32-Bit
>> 2.5 GB Ram
>> AMD Athlon Dual
>> Core @ 1.6
>> Ghz
>> MySQL 5.1 for
>> database
>>
>> Any help or insight would
>> be greatly
>> appreciated!
>>
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