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

Thu Feb 11 00:10:11 UTC 2010

just wondering how things are coming along?

On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:

> LaeMing wrote:
>> That sounds rather like what has been reported in mantis 0004331
>> The avatar textures are there momentarily on rebake, but then white out, 
>> possibly because the baked textures are not uploading??
> 
> No, that is very probably a different problem.
> 
> I actually get the same effect on my local machines so I hope to investigate it soon.  Unfortunately these appearance bugs are more difficult than usual since they involve a chain of interactions between OpenSim and the black-box viewer (black-box from my pov, anyway).
> 
>> 
>> Lae
>> 
>> On Wednesday February 10 2010 18:31:02 Karen Palen wrote:
>>> 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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