"Unscheduled Maintenance" Strikes Wednesday Afternoon, Night

 

If you had some trouble Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday night inworld, from appearing as a cloud to inventory issues. You weren't alone. I saw in several groups inworld saying that they had problems rezzing, finding items in their inventory, seeing others, logging in and staying logged in, and other troubles.  In the Sunweavers community group, it's leader Rita Mariner would post about it, "Technical Issues With SL Tonight."

Seems LL broke SL.  No one can rezz anything.  I have a club of invisible people.  If the issue isn't cleared by start of dance, I will cancel it.

And as it turned out, Linden Lab was doing Unscheduled Maintenance at the time.

We are currently conducting an unscheduled maintenance & investigating an issue impacting logins. You may experience issues logging in or with rezzing items from your inventory during this time. Please monitor this blog for updates.

 

At 6:32 PM SL time, Linden Lab declared the issue resolved. But that wasn't the end of the troubles. Up to late morning the following day, people would continue to have issues with rezzing and seeing others. Various residents had things to say about it, including Rose Redfoxx (Rose Evans), who sent the Newser one memefied picture (left).

Bixyl Shuftan

 

Grid and Viewer Glitches?

 

 Lately it seems my alt Rezzdarnnit is living up to his name.

It's been a little more than a week since the February 1 outages that took out a number of sims for a while, caused people to have problems logging in, and other problems. Since then, I've heard of, and to a lesser degree experienced, a few issues that aren't just the usual lag. Some people are taking longer to rezz, longer to see others rezz, longer to see sims rezz, and some trouble logging in.

  

The news isn't *entirely* bad. Since upgrading my Firestorm on the day before the required update, my frames per second is sometimes quite a bit more than it was before, at least when there's few to no other avatars around. 

Checking the Grid Status Report, there was a mention of a long-running issue "Online Friends Display Issues," for close to a month, " We are aware that some of our Residents are currently experiencing issues with online friends not showing correctly. Our engineers are hard at work to correct this behavior as soon as possible; however, there may be an extended time frame before this occurs." 

 

This hasn't been the first time the Grid has had more than the usual amount of bugs. During Second Life's move to Amazon Cloud servers, there were many to the point Linden Lab was asking for patience for the many weeks it would take. What could be causing these issues, we don't know, yet.

Hopefully things will be fixed soon.

Bixyl Shuftan

Glitches Plague Second Life

 

 

 Second Life invariably has occasional glitches. But February 1 2023 was worse than usual. Numerous sims were offline. Some avatars wouldn't rezz properly or at all. People had trouble logging on. The Lab had been doing some rolling restarts. But it soon realized it had a problem, admitting to outages and script errors on it's Grid Status Report.

 

We are investigating reports of occasional errors upon logging into the viewer as well as reports of slowness or time outs on web pages such as the Marketplace and my.secondlife.com. We are also aware some residents are appearing as a cloud for longer than expected upon logging in. Our engineers are actively trying to alleviate the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.

 

Some residents would describe their problems on a couple forum threads here and here, "I've been an orange cloud for three hours." Draxtor Despress' Second Life Book Club would have to postpone it's weekly show to Saturday due to the glitches, which showed in his recording. Checking the maps, one friend commented, "I don't think I have ever seen so many sims down at once on the map."

 

On 3:45 PM , the Lab posted that the issues were resolved. But for about an hour after that, I continued to see people having problems with their avatars rezzing. By 6PM, it appeared things had finally cleared up.

 

It;s safe to say this was Second Life's most glitched day in many months. Fortunately, it wasn't as bad as the early days in which it seemed Linden Lab had to shut down the Grid for a few hours every week to "bang on things" until the bugs were fixed.

 

Image Credit: Vicious Hollow, Matoazma Kazyanenko

 

Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day: Cloudy Name

 

From the SL19B entry area. For those who wonder where I get my ideas, sometimes they just appear in front of me. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day: The Cloud

By Bixyl Shuftan

Best Viewer Apps for SL

What Second Life viewer is best? For about a year, the official viewer from Linden Lab has been Viewer 2. But more residents prefer the Phoenix viewer. Any1 Gynoid compares the two viewers, and takes a look at their applications.

Read the story in Extra.