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

Thu Feb 11 00:33:45 UTC 2010

I am likely out of date on that one.

BTW despite the thread title "... under Windows" I am seeing this problem on Ubuntu Karmic.

Karen

--- On Wed, 2/10/10, Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Having problems with uploads when runningOpenSim under Windows
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 4:44 PM
> 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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