Very interesting - what specific Viewer & version are you running? The only 1.x Viewers I've heard of that are also experiencing the problem are recent builds of Phoenix (which are Display Names capable).
On Dec 29, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Andromeda Quonset wrote: > Trilo, > > I had the ???'s displaying last night on my friends list for quite awhile, > and I have never had a Display Names capable viewer even installed. The > version 1.xx viewer I use predates by several months, and I am posting to let > anyone know that the problem is not "only appears to be happening on Display > Names capable viewers". > > Andro > > At 09:46 AM 12/29/2010, Trilo Byte wrote: >> It's not you, it's been happening to others. A lot. >> >> Before Christmas it happened much less frequently, but since then the >> phenomenon's been occurring at least once a day. Sometimes they're ??? at >> login, sometimes they show properly at first and then flip to ??? on their >> own. Sometimes the ???'s remain throughout the session, and sometimes they >> flip back to show the correct names. It happens regardless of whether the >> user has a Display Name set or not. >> >> I've also noticed that if someone with a ??? name types an action in group >> chat (line starting with /me) it displays their user name. Also, sometimes, >> if you look up the profile of a person showing ??? it shows the correct name >> on the profile. As far as I can tell, it's a server-side condition that >> only appears to be happening on Display Names capable viewers. >> >> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/DN-202 >> >> On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:36 AM, Ponzu wrote: >> >>> ....Last night I was using the 2.5 beta I had just built from the weekend's >>> changes, and this odd thing happened... >>> >>> I logged in. My friends list showed ???. (Odd, the pictures load OK, but >>> not the names.) I had been logged in about 15 minutes. >>> >>> Then I got an IM from Grumpity Productengine. So far as I know, I don't >>> know Grumpity. I assumed it was someone from this list. The text of the >>> message was something like, "Hi. I was between Highland and La Brea on >>> Franklin, so I thought of you." This message is significant to me, but I >>> don't know how any Productengines would know that. >>> >>> So, I started having a conversation with Grumpity, trying to hide my >>> embarrassment about not really knowing who it was. >>> >>> After two or three minutes, I noticed that Grumpity was now ???. After a >>> bit of conversation, I finally figured out I was talking to a friend named >>> Aphrodite Tagore. After ten minutes more, the ??? changed to Aphrodite >>> Tagore and all was more or less normal (snafu 8-). >>> >>> No, I do not have a repro. No, I was not stoned beyond oblivion. >>> >>> Just reporting on the off chance that someone will find the information >>> useful for debugging some display name problem or something. >>> >>> regards, >>> ponzu > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
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