Problem JIRA

Second Life Problem 2014-39

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Every so often some body somewhere in the world changes something and it messes us up here in Second Life™. Well, there have just been updates to iCloud and it has thrown a kink into mesh and snapshot uploads to SL.

See JIRA item BUG-7343 – iCloud update causes broken mesh upload, “error encoding snapshot” saving snapshots to inventory, “Couldn’t convert the image to jpeg2000” uploading textures and broken UI colours.

This change affects only Windows users that use iCloud or possibly just have it installed. The update has yet to make it to Mac’s. But, it eventually will. Whether it will create a problem or not is yet to learned.

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Second Life Region Crossing Problems

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This week we have seen region crossing problems pop up. Some are commenting about them and reporting details. The Lindens have acknowledged this is a problem. They have some idea of what the problem is and what to do about it. So, we should see a fix, hopefully, roll into an RC region next week.

See Deploys thread: 2013-03-04.

See: BUG-1814 – No object updates from vehicles after some region crossings. Filed by: Aeon Voom.

Problem Repo Description: Fly mesh aircraft with vehicle engine and relative high amounts of individual parts (~ >80). It also happens to sculpty vehicles and mesh vehicles with a low number of individual parts, but far less frequently.

While this is a possible crash mode it was hard to find out what is actually causing it.

Maestro Lindens explanation in BUG-1707 gave us a good idea where to look and search and we made some interesting findings through that. 

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