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Key: VWR-5797
Type: Bug Bug
Status: Open Open
Priority: Showstopper Showstopper
Assignee: WorkingOnIt Linden
Reporter: Rita Munro
Votes: 23
Watchers: 7
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1. Second Life Viewer - VWR

Viewer crashes without error, no crash logger appears

Created: 22/Mar/08 10:58 AM   Updated: 14/Oct/09 01:39 PM
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Component/s: Crashes, Graphics, User Interface
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None

File Attachments: 1. Text File SecondLifeCrashReport.log (114 kB)
2. Text File SecondLifeException.log (81 kB)

Image Attachments:

1. quick_crash.jpg
(182 kB)
Environment:
Second Life 1.19.0 (5) Feb 28 2008 17:18:12 (Second Life Release)

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (Unknown model) (3000 MHz)
Memory: 1022 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce 6600 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL Version: 2.0.3
LLMozLib Version: 1.1.0 (Mozilla GRE:1.8.0.12_0000000000)
Viewer Digest: 6b1bac12-2a86-e1f2-aa5e-3108db5c8eeb
Issue Links:
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Linden Lab Issue ID: DEV-13470


 Description  « Hide
  • Play second life
  • Experience SL just vanishing off your screen

There is no error message and there is no offer to send a crash-report.

It is just over. This can happens on building something (very often if you use the object torus), on attaching something, on receiving or sending an IM and out of a lot of unknown reasons. It happens just if you have minimized your game to do something else. If you look for the icon in the foot-task-list - dissappeared. SL does not run anymore

It is significantly more often with many avatars around and in lag-areas.
And more often at weekends.

On relog you see "the region is just logging you out" - but mostly no offer to send a crash report.
So SL seems not to "know" it has crashed.

PLEASE DO:
Set more
try - except - end
blocks
to find bugs.
Write error messages to be reported to you..

We do know nothing more but "crashed anywhere out of any reason".
And we know, that this item is a showstopper.
Because: this bug occurs very, very, very often.
Today (Saturday) I had it at a certain place about every minute.
After the 7th time you quit whatever you did there.



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McCabe Maxsted added a comment - 22/Mar/08 02:47 PM
I'm confused by your environment. Are you making a 3rd party viewer?

Harleen Gretzky added a comment - 22/Mar/08 02:52 PM
That is the last part of the bottom box in the About Second Life panel.

McCabe Maxsted added a comment - 22/Mar/08 02:56 PM
Oooh, okay. Never noticed that before.

Rita, can you list what version you're using and the full environment please?


McCabe Maxsted made changes - 22/Mar/08 02:56 PM
Field Original Value New Value
Summary "puuu.... and the show is over" Viewer crashes without error, no crash logger appears
Rita Munro made changes - 25/Mar/08 02:11 AM
Environment SDL Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Sam Lantinga
SSLeay Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
xmlrpc-epi Copyright (C) 2000 Epinions, Inc.
zlib Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.

All rights reserved. See licenses.txt for details.

Voice chat Audio coding: Polycom(R) Siren14(TM) (ITU-T Rec. G.722.1 Annex C)


Happiness is a warm puppy. -- Charles M. Schulz
Second Life 1.19.0 (5) Feb 28 2008 17:18:12 (Second Life Release)

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (Unknown model) (3000 MHz)
Memory: 1022 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce 6600 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL Version: 2.0.3
LLMozLib Version: 1.1.0 (Mozilla GRE:1.8.0.12_0000000000)
Viewer Digest: 6b1bac12-2a86-e1f2-aa5e-3108db5c8eeb
Rita Munro added a comment - 25/Mar/08 02:12 AM
oups, this was the wrong box!
Environment is filled in correctly now.
Thank you all for tellng me.

aric linden added a comment - 25/Mar/08 11:34 AM
Also, please be sure you have crash logger enabled. You need to go into your prefs and enable it and set it to send reports automatically. Is that set up correctly? Also, can you provide steps or a repro of what you're doing when it crashes or how you get SL into a crashing state? That would help.

thanks


Rita Munro added a comment - 25/Mar/08 11:48 AM
Hi Arin,

thank you for taking time, to view this item.

Yes, the crash-logger is and was enabled.
It is very rare, that it becomes active at all.
About 5% of the crashes or lower.

The crash reports going through are even fewer.
Usually the report-window just flickers and says after a while "sending to alternative server", which just flickers again.

The crash report showing me a final "done!" is in about 0.05% of all crashes I experience.

Rita


aric linden added a comment - 25/Mar/08 01:24 PM
Are you crashing at launch:? Steps or context would be really helpful here.

thanks


Rita Munro added a comment - 25/Mar/08 03:24 PM
Yes, I crash at launch as well. But no more often than at every other occasion.
These crashes have nothing in common, but the fact, that all residents suffer from them.
How often I see them just dissappear on every occaion: while chatting, while IM-exchanging, on attending classes,...

Nobody can say who is the next to crash.
I had occaions, that of a party / group every other avatar crashed except me and one or two others.
All others crashed. Why did I stay that time? Nobody knows.

Usually we do not file bug-reports, because we have not the slightest idea, "why" crashed again.
And the crash logger does not work so often.

So: What to do?

I am rl programmer for Delphi.
I do not know, in wich language SL is programmed.
But to my mind in most languages there should be an option to catch blocks of the problem's occurence.

In Delphi I would say:

try

      1. program block A21 ####
        except
        ShowMessage ("oups, exception 322 occurred in block A 21");
        end;

This message the resident can read and copy it into Jira.
May save the Linden family a lot of time and guessing.


Rita Munro added a comment - 25/Mar/08 04:08 PM
Here comes a good example.

The average I am online at this place is about 30-120 seconds. Often enough I crash on login there and sometimes I have some seconds more.

Everytime SL just "gone off the screen" without any hint.

Teleporting to a different sim helps.


Rita Munro made changes - 25/Mar/08 04:08 PM
Attachment quick_crash.jpg [ 15617 ]
Soap Clawtooth added a comment - 28/Mar/08 11:31 AM
Try updating your OpenGL version to 2.1? Long shot but worth a try. and do you have the latest drivers for the GeForce 6600??

Bonnie Gladstone added a comment - 29/Mar/08 12:52 PM
me too,and ive been logging out after the 3.tp,every day the same.the crashes too,its a shame.

aric linden added a comment - 01/Apr/08 12:18 PM
@Rita, what place are you crashing at? I can't tell from your comment. and have you updated your drivers as mentioned by Soap? Also, a caution: Nvidia updates their english language drivers first and then ports the changes outward. You might find that the current version of your region's drivers aren't as uptodate as the english language version are.

@Bonnie - can you provide your hardware config, and the versions of SL in which you're seeing the problem?

thanks


Rita Munro added a comment - 02/Apr/08 02:27 AM
Aric, Soap,

at my computer are about 100 programs running, half of them English, many of the graphic or video. The 99 other programs do not crash every some minutes, like SL in recent weeks. And I see so many avatars crashing inworld as well since the last 2 SL updates.
Therefore we cannot expect the solution in hunting latest drivers even for the price of language conflicts.

@ Arin: this happens in many regions: in some very often, in others not that often.

@Arin, LindenLab:
WHY do we know nothing about the reasons of the crashes?
Instead of SL vanishing from screen there could appear a message like, "error in reading because index reading out of bounds in array objects-of-Wildmutt-sim past object-index-numer 3566 = 'tiny house'" - or similar.

In recent times in about 20% of my crashes I see the crash logger again.
(Your error reports usually do not go through, they just flicker "sending" , but do not do it.)

So another idea: Let us save the content of the error reports to attach it to our Jira-Postings.


aric linden added a comment - 08/Apr/08 12:54 PM
Rita, if crash logger is enabled, it emails us the crash log. You can also grab them out of your logs folder and attach them if you'd like. Many others do this. It would help us ALOT.

thanks


Rita Munro added a comment - 09/Apr/08 01:22 AM
Hi Aric,

may be I found the reason, why I see the crash-logger so rarely.

I usually do not log in by clicking the icon, but with:
"c\Programme\SecondLife\SecondLife.exe -multiple -login Rita Munro............."
(I am not logged in muliple times, I just left the line for it)

This way of login seems not to send crash-reports.

===================

And you say, there is a file on my disk where the log is written to? I did not know that!

Let me search:
Am I right, it is "SecondLifeCrashReport.log"?
You need the Exception.log as well?

Sincerey,
Rita


aric linden added a comment - 09/Apr/08 06:39 AM
yep, please attach both logs. I'm interested in why you're not sending crash reports automatically when you log in from command line. I'll follow up on that once you attach crash reports.

thanks!


Rita Munro made changes - 09/Apr/08 09:50 AM
Attachment SecondLifeCrashReport.log [ 15928 ]
Rita Munro made changes - 09/Apr/08 09:51 AM
Attachment SecondLifeException.log [ 15929 ]
Rita Munro added a comment - 09/Apr/08 09:54 AM
I logged in again at 11:53 by prompt line and did not see any message which says a crash report would have been sent.

lindenrobot made changes - 10/Apr/08 02:03 PM
Linden Lab Issue ID DEV-13470
aric linden added a comment - 10/Apr/08 04:48 PM
imported 2008-04-10

aric linden made changes - 10/Apr/08 04:48 PM
Assignee WorkingOnIt Linden [ WorkingOnIt Linden ]
MB Chevalier made changes - 14/Apr/08 09:18 AM
Link This issue is related to by VWR-6389 [ VWR-6389 ]
derian weidman added a comment - 04/May/08 07:34 PM
Check the logs, im guessing because I dont have time right now to actully read your uplods, but im guessing that there is something in there about packets? If so id look to linden about packet handeling issues... It seems to be a recant huge issue

Rosen Janus added a comment - 31/Jul/08 04:03 PM - edited
It's doing the same for me, though a litte bit different.

On my computer, the window doesn't vanish. SL just hangs. When I try to resize the window, it's like the stuff that was in the window doesn't move, leaving white space as a resize more... it's hard to explain. >_<

Is my issue different enough to warrent a seperate issue?

Please fix this. I haven't logged on in some time and would like to check up on my avatar.

Trouble is.. I can't even log in. SL hangs when I try to.


Rob Linden made changes - 14/Aug/08 02:40 PM
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Jasmine Chemistry added a comment - 14/Aug/08 06:53 PM
Unfortunately, all I can really say is "me too" and raise my hand. I'll put in my computer specs below. I don't seem to be doing it as often as Rosen and Rita however, but when I crash it's just gone. It all fades, no crash logger, just gone. If I restart, SL did seem to know I'd left as it's still doing the logout process from whatever region I was in.

I have gotten some few crashes where the crash logger does work.
I no longer seem to get crashes where it trys to report and can't report (used to get those and that was infuriating).
I have updated my NVIDIA drivers every time they have something.
I have used furminator(SP?) to reset my openGL (a different bug of hanging)

Second Life 1.20.15 (92456) Jul 18 2008 10:58:42 (Second Life Release)

CPU: Intel Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon (0.25 micron process) with external L2 cache (2493 MHz)
Memory: 3070 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (Build 6001)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce 8700M GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL Version: 2.1.1
LLMozLib Version: [LLMediaImplLLMozLib] - 2.01.17355 (Mozilla GRE version 1.8.1.13_0000000000)


Amaya Mabellon added a comment - 16/Oct/08 11:59 AM
This has happened to me too MANY times. SL just crashes and closes without warning. SL used to crash so often it would almost be 5 minutes logged in and then I'd crash. I'm still crashing but less often because I lowered the texture memory from 512 to 128 mb. SL looks really crappy right now with that setting but it's what I have to do to stay logged in.

Rita Munro added a comment - 17/Oct/08 01:30 AM
This will not help you, but perhaps it helps Aric:

For me the troubles are over with version 1.20.17.
Version 1.20.16 was the worst, I ever had seen. With this I crashed every 20 seconds and stopped playing.
Within some seconds not even your clothes are loaded.

With version 20.17 the thing just works.
No crash since one week.

This is the info I can give you:

  • I use a GForce 6600
  • my computer did not change at all: not in hardware, not in settings, not in internet-connection, not in firewall
  • the SL graphic settings did not matter at all: I had them to the lowest low even possible in times of troubles.
    Now I turned them to "high" and there is no crash and no extreme lag. It just works.
  • the sim does not matter any more. In trouble-times some sims made me crash even quicker or at sudden instead of logging in.
    Now I fly where I want and I stay logged-on
  • the speed of moving within SL does not matter any more: In former times I just needed to sit in a vehicle or fly quickly to make the thing crash. Now I rocket over the land and do not crash. If I am too quick, the land will not rezz (I just see the ground), but I do not crash

So to my mind:
There are (to me: were) some severe bugs in the source code of the viewer.
If you find them (this is hard! as I programmer, I know this so well!), the problem will be done.

Good luck Arin and to all of you suffereing still!

Rita


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Oz Kirax added a comment - 22/Jan/09 01:40 PM
oddly enough i also have the same problem i can't seem to handle more then 10 minutes before i shut down with no reason and not just second life but the full computer.

I thought i had a virues so i

  • did 12 virues scans
  • System restore
  • Uninstalled SL and reinstalled it
  • reformatted my full computer

and still i seem to have the same issue what i find odd is i all so seem to have the same graphics card as you all and issues

  • GForce 6600
    -my computer did not change at all: not in hardware, not in settings, not in internet-connection, not in firewall
  • he sim does not matter any more. In trouble-times some sims made me crash even quicker or at sudden instead of logging in.

has anyone found these "BUGS" yet?


Nucit Sin added a comment - 22/Jan/09 09:53 PM
have had same problems dosnt happen all the time . may work fine and then all of a sudden happens and cant even get loged in .

system
windows vista home premium
service pack 1
hp
intel core 2 duo 2.2GHZ
3gb mem
nvidia 8600 512 mb

has gotten worse the past week or so thanks for looking into this


Rita Munro added a comment - 23/Jan/09 01:49 AM
Oz::
So sorry to hear that!

My problems at worst times was this: SL crashed after 20 seconds. Not even my inventory loaded. I stopped playing.
It was done suddenly with the version before the lastest one.

The only thing I can tell you:
It is not (just) the GForce 6600.
I have it as well and it works fine now.

MAY BE the problem has something to do with communication speed and display.
There is only one thing you can try.
Minimize your SL window after 9 minutes and leave it there, until you hear the performance of the computer slows down.

Then you maximize it again.
This closes the rendering and resets the Ram.
May help you stay online longer.
To my mind the problem is due to too much Ram request.

and to add:
My communication speed is 800 MB.
Since I upgraded my speed the crashes went from "very low frequence" (due to new SL viewer version) to "nearly zero" (due to my higher speed).

Good luck!

Rita


Nucit Sin added a comment - 23/Jan/09 11:13 AM
Played with this some today looking at the bandwith and fps under stastistics today and noticed crash occured when bandwith keep dipping to below 40 or so. When i checked under preferences the network tab noticed the bandwith setting was set to 500 bandwith . while i was doing this i locked again as i have several times couldnt move only turn . I changed the bandwith setting to 200 and hit apply BINGO that unfroze me and was able to work fine from that point on. ive played with that some over the past hour and can get it up to around 400 and dosnt lock. not sure if this is a fix or a help in figureing out whats going on . i know my speed readings on my cable modem runs in the 6800 kbps rage most of the time but the bandwith on my viewer keeps moving from very low numbers 20 up to 400 or some. So if your having this prob can try setting your bandwith under preferences network tab down to a point were you dont lock . Good luck just wanted to pass this on as a possable help on both sides of the problem .

Nucit Sin added a comment - 23/Jan/09 07:48 PM
well work today didnt pan out tonight crashed multiple times so many i couldnt count them . always the same bandwith meter moving all around and then locks at 0 entire time the fps is good 15 to 40 . even tried lowering the bandwith setting under pref to 50 . so not sure what was different tonight except mayme more on sl like 67k were today it was only around 60k any help with this prob would be much appreciated cant live in sl this way .

CB Coeyman added a comment - 01/Feb/09 11:02 PM
Been crashing so many times lately that I finally crawled my way here. Ever since the current Main Viewer was realesed I have had problems. I can use it once after I dowload it. Then I have to uninstall and reinstall. That got old real quick, so I opted for the RC and have been playing swimmingly till the last 2 RC's, this last one even worse. No warning, no similar events unless you count just standing there but never in the same place, I will get a "DING" signifying that I have have crashed and havent been told just yet with just enough time to expel expletives to my friends on voice before the quit option appears. When I wait, mind you I have to or my account won't be available for sometime longer, my voice and groups are gone. OH YES AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE ABSENCE OF A CRASH LOGGER.
But as I and my friends say daily, "I hate SL, see you tomorrow!!"

Second Life 1.22.7 (108773) Jan 23 2009 19:27:16 (Second Life Release Candidate)
Release Notes

CPU: Intel Core 2 Series Processor (1600 MHz)
Memory: 2047 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (Build 6001)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce 9500 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL Version: 2.1.2


Lomoco Binder added a comment - 25/Apr/09 05:47 PM
Very interesting. I've been experiencing near the exact same problem. I am currently running a home brew viewer, but it would still happen even on the Official Release Candidate.

• Whilst in the midst of some action, be it scripting, typing, anything really, the viewer just vanishes, no lag or delay from full operation t o absolutely no operation at all. My system doesn't register that it was quit unexpectedly, so it must be something internal. It has happened to groups of people. When it does, teleporting to a region NOT directly connected to the problem region seems to help. And like Rita, I get absolutely no indications that there's been a crash, except for the fact that it happened. I'm running the latest version of my OS, Mac OS v10.5.6, and the fact that I'm running a completely different client indicates that it's probably not a problem with the client, but an even deeper internal problem, possibly with some internal server or Region OS.


SnakeWildlife Soyinka added a comment - 26/Jun/09 05:44 PM
I too have this problem with All official client and All non official clients, i get 5 minutes to 15 minutes before crashing, with no crash log appearing, i seem to witness a slight freeze in second life, then after this freeze by approx 10seconds to 30 seconds SL finally closes and no crash report comes up when i do have it enabled. I can barely use SL right now because of this. It does seem to be an internal issue, very rare days i will actually be able to go about without crashing, but 95% of the time i have this serious issue on my fully updated and optimally running machine. The Greenlife Emerald client lasts a slight bit longer, but doesnt go any further. I also witness broken polygons which attach to the centre of the screen. Even still these should not be causing the crash, all my symptoms are exact to everyone elses comments.

ATI Radeon x1950 series with 512mb vram
3.2 Ghz dual core AMD processor
Windows XP Home SP2
Direct X 9.0c
2gb Ram
20 megabit high speed broadband.


SnakeWildlife Soyinka added a comment - 27/Jun/09 11:40 AM
Further note, this has started happening even though i haven't patched in sometime, but still doesnt matter even if i have patched. I suspect this may have something to do with the SL server's themselves that may be sending us data irregular from normal causing the cilent to confuse and stall out.

SnakeWildlife Soyinka added a comment - 05/Jul/09 10:30 AM
More updates, ill try to provide more info the more i analyze how it closes. SL seems to close out far quicker when more people are around.
Graphically i get 60fps almost all the time so its not in that area.

I could stay on SL between 15mins-1hour when i am on my own in the sim/area. But when in a sim such as a night club with more than 20 people around me. It closes far quicker around the 2mins-10mins marker.

Could what be closing us with no crash logger have to do with the information the server sends us about other peoples avatars or their locations? could even be bad data.


Jolene Merlin added a comment - 14/Oct/09 01:35 PM - edited
I have been experiencing constant crash to desktop problems since May of this year.

It does NOT occur while I am in a crowded, heavily used sim. In fact it is perfectly random in its occurrence. Most often it happens while I am alone in a Sim; and not in Mouse Look.

It happens once every 30 - 40 minutes, usually while I am in a sim running the CCS Combat System while NOT in Mouse Look view. I have never had it happen in any Sim that is not running the CCS. I've spoken with some of the GM's, and the developer of CCS and we're pretty sure it is not the cause.

It also happens on multiple Viewer platforms, including the standard Linden Viewer, the Kirstens Viewer, and Boy Lanes CoolViewer. I've not yet tested with any others.

when it happens, I got no errors, no messages, no crash logs, nothing listed in windows Event Log or Event Viewer...

SL just, automatically closes, all by itself. Crashes straight to Windows Desk Top and I can not log back in for about 3 - 5 minutes because SL is still trying to log my AV out of the region from which I crashed. My SL Crash logger is active, but it never does anything.

My system Specs:

AMD Phenom II x4 940 Black Edition presently at 3000mhz; have tested at 3800mhz.
MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum Motherboard
4GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC2-8500 DDR2-1066
EVGA Geforce 8800GT 512MB x2/SLI
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
Windows XP Professional w/ Service Pack 3

My Bandwidth settings on my Viewers are usually set to around 500, or lower; with View/Draw distance usually set to 256 which seems to be the "sweet spot" for my video cards.

I HAVE tested with SLI enabled, and without SLI enabled. I still experiences the Crashes either way.

All my drivers are at present up to date as far as I am aware, and I'll get my "Environment" data posted later, as I do not have access to it at present.