Server Bugs

We did 11 races in January with all together 96 racers and have about 7-12 racers per race. A race takes normally max 40min. But there was not a single race in January all sailors finished without disconnects or thrown off the sail boat on crossing sim boarders The region "Depace" is the worst sim in the last weeks. We crash there most of the times either on the crossing into Depace or out of Depace. It happens as well when someone sails alone there. There is not much underwater stuff that needs to be rezzed long. So there is no actual reason for these crashes there. Check the sim Depace first and seriously and don't just look at some general parameters or values. Do a serious check including server address changes and all those things. The other sims start getting the same issues more and more. So the whole area is worth to be seriously checked. and i talk about all these sims: Stodierski, Mautte, Paltiete, Mon Bayete, Degrand, Sarante, Petaccio, Rexach, Betacourt, Feraco, Repaci, Castrum, Palmerston, Rafeiraga, Valdivian, Couse, Gerache, Collhaytah, Port Pawtee, Maris, Conwy, Port Gonnornertnert, Quimadra, Depace, Lavaca, Val Encia, Benach, Coull, Oprince, Getachew, Wyrldmaker, Corpening, Geffers, Costagliola, Cottier

Locations where this happened earlier this evening: Solang / Les Cigalons (near 155, 11) Rua / Old Cave of Rua (near 70, 12) Sequence: You're flying across a sim border. The land you're about to enter in the target sim has damage enabled. "Injured" noise plays. You die and are teleported home. This has happened to me several times over the last week. This is likely related to a highly repeatable bug in which a vehicle gets nudged by a few degrees (sometimes moreso) when going over a border. If you want to see that bug, try landing at Hollywood Airport in Santa Catalina, where the runways are very close to the edge. You'll often find the nose of your aircraft pointing in a slightly different direction after you've crossed the border. There seems to be some kind of spurious collision event that takes place, even if it's an airplane and not in contact with anything at all. The phenomenon doesn't always have the same magnitude, but the hysteresis of "nudging" seems to scale inversely with aircraft mass. I have a very small aircraft (motorcycle-sized) that can be thrown off by multiple tens of degrees. Larger aircraft seem less susceptible: something the size of a Cessna 172 might get "tilted or panned" by 15 degrees or less. Corroborating evidence: The "nudging" effect is readily apparent at low speeds, when the aircraft's kinetic energy isn't much higher than that of an avatar. Go over a border at 30 meters/sec, when the aircraft's kinetic energy is many times higher than that of an avatar, and you won't see any noticeable effect. My guess would be that this is a race condition that occurs while linking the avatar to the seat on the airplane as the handoff completes: they collide with each other during the split second that elapses between bringing the avatar into the sim, and linking it to the seat. Now, does the avatar have to be non-phantom while this is occurring? Probably not. Avatar collision hull is useful on vehicles, but it's not so critical that you couldn't do without it for a moment on region handoff. As I recall, over damage land, collisions can injure avatars, and vehicles forward damage to avatars as well. So, if the avatar is colliding vigorously with the airplane for a split second due to this phenomenon, the avatar would take damage.

In the two BlueSteel 2024-07-22.10048683488 regions where I can test (Tenera and Eagan), I cannot return objects encroaching from land on those regions, under conditions that seem identical to successful return of objects encroaching from Second Life Server 2024-06-11.9458617693 regions. It appears that the problem depends on the encroaching object being on the BlueSteel region because I also cannot return those objects when they encroach onto parcels on a non-BlueSteel region (Crumbi), and I can return objects encroaching into BlueSteel from the non-BlueSteel region. Weird thing though: I had the same problem a week or so ago when these BlueSteel channel regions were running 2024-06-11.9458617693. So maybe it's some region-specific configuration thing, not the server software itself, perhaps only coincidentally set for these regions on this channel? Perhaps supporting that theory, as I was testing today, I noticed the region environment sun angle was quite different on these BlueSteel regions than on their neighbors, which probably isn't in the simulator code per se. ADDITIONAL INFO: Today, Wednesday August 7, after other RC channels updated to 2024-07-22.10048683488, I tested on Tussock and Foxglove (Ferrari channel) and Epirrhoe and Tuliptree (Magnum) where this did not replicate but it's still happening on Tenera and Eagan, BlueSteel regions which also restarted today. Unfortunately I don't know of any other BlueSteel regions from which I could return encroaching objects to see if it's just some weird fluke of those two.

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The free right-click image on an outfit on an avatar is very useful. I am show dancer, so changing outfits is fast and furious. The images help a lot. However recently they disappear randomly. Especially the newer ones I did a week ago, yet some (not all) of the images I took 6-9 months ago are still there. Q: Why are the images vanishing? Browser: Firestorm. Fixation required !!!

Many of the groups I am in are getting hit with people spamming in chat with scam links, slurs, harassment, etc. but you can't ban the user because they make their comment and then leave the group. They re-join later and do it all over again. You can only ban people from a group while they are in the group. Not only that, but often this constant leaving and re-joining seems to confuse the group member list so they don't come up even when they are in the group chat making comments again, so you still can't ban them. Please make a way to ban people from a group regardless of if they are in it or not. We've also had incidents where we do ban people and the exact same account is somehow still coming back in chat after being banned. This is getting ridiculous. It's happening every day, multiple times a day, in groups all over SL. We need a way to get rid of them from our groups quickly and permanently. Yes, there is an option to ban members from the group by lookup. Is is not working. They are still getting in group chat.

No email notification when objects are returned to me while offline, even if I am subscribed to this notification since 2009/2010 and it always worked until a few months ago. This happens randomly and seems more prone to happen when a bunch of coalesced objects are returned into my inventory. In some occasions I have even lost part of the content (like the rentbox, which is copiable but each of them is configured specifically for a land and a renter so I lose rent data). I don't know if the following issue is related to this one but the system I have developed that auto returns objects to the renter when the rent has expired, most of the time it works but it seems to fail too when a lot of prims needs to be returned. I would advise developers to check into the return object functions to see if there is some kind of limit or bug that can happen when they handle a big amount of prims or objects to be returned.

Hobbes investigated voice issue on Golden Fleece

Since September 5th, our players have started reporting that their fishing rods break and become unresponsive. The main script, which relies on the touch_start event, no longer triggers. This issue resembles a stack/heap error, but in this case, no errors are reported by the simulator or viewer—unlike typical stack/heap failures. Memory exhaustion is also unlikely, as this script has functioned correctly for over 10 years without issues. The problem occurs in the following scenarios: * When players teleport between regions * Occasionally during active fishing * Some players report it happening upon login while they log in wearing the rod (as attachment) The issue affects many players, but not all, which suggests that the problem is not caused by our scripts or the fishing rod itself. We have been unable to determine why the same fishing rod behaves differently: for some players it breaks, while for others it continues to function normally as it has for years. Around 30 - 50 total players affected so far since September 5th. Aprox. about 7% of our players have been affected.

Strange but repeatable behavior when an avatar cannot enter a parcel but a vehicle can. Avatar gets knocked off the vehicle and is left sitting in midair, unable to walk or stand.