Boroondas, thanks for the response!
i figured out a way to get SL going again by backing up to Snowglobe 1.4 Nicky Perian (Thanks Nicky!) helped me some last weekend. i found this sorta official stuff: "Sysinternals Suite" http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062 on a Microsoft website that you probably already know about. It's a whole bunch of tools for Windows originally developed by an old school DOS pro back in the 90s, but updated for modern Windows. The tools are really great! i don't understand even 0.05% of what they have to say, but they make for lots of cool looking information, that's for sure! Anyway, the procmon showed me a Snowglobe DLL was having a buffer overflow. i know that isn't good, and since i'd already managed to find my Snowglobe 1.5 installation software and reinstall Snowglobe, i figured something must be wrong with Windows, so i tried Snowglobe 1.4. That worked. i was thinking about reinstalling Windows, but that's a lot of work, i have a freaky environment because of the VM i have to use, and if i screw it up i don't get any help fixing it. That would make my school & side job really hard, so i'm happy to live with Snowglobe 1.4 Maybe i'll try one of the newer viewers that has the v1 "look 'n feel," but not right now. i think i really wanna see what mesh is all about, but i think i need to have like a whole weekend or something just to get a new viewer going, so i'll wait. What i really, really wanna do is do a viewer build myself, but the build instructions keep scaring me, and i don't think my build environment is right like it is now, anyway. That's a whole nother weekend (or two...). Thanks Again! Y'all are Great!! i hope if anyone looks at the Sysinternals tools that they're really useful! They sure look like they oughta be! - AK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On 08/07/2011 11:47 PM, a...@skyhighway.com wrote: > somewhere during installing a buncha junk i need for stuff i actually earn > money for, i made it so Snowglobe wouldn't start anymore. Ew. > [...] i thought maybe it had something to do > with Python, but i think i'm sure now that none of that changed. We only use python at build time, not at runtime. (Otherwise you'd see it in the system requirements.) > Can someone please tell me where Snowglobe might be logging what it does > during start-up so i can see if i can figure out what to do to fix it? The location depends on your operating system, but is documented on the wiki on 'Finding Log Files' and 'Debug Help > Where do I find my SecondLife.log file?'. (I don't know why we have that same info twice.) > [...] i don't wanna change viewers, i just want > Snowglobe to start, and i especially don't wanna get the latest (or any) > version 2 viewer. Even more, i don't wanna have to never use SL again! Please do consider using a more recent viewer. Snowglobe hasn't gotten security updates for a long time. (Still better than SL Viewer 1.23, though.) There are third party viewers that preserved the look and feel of Snowglobe while keeping up-to-date with relation to the Second Life protocols and security concerns. > [...] i thought of just reinstalling Snowglobe, but i have v1.5 & i can't > find a place to download that version, and i either didn't save (typical) > or can't find (even more typical) the installation package i used to begin > with. :-( I don't think Snowglobe 1.5 has ever been released: There were probably only ever development snapshots with that version number. Links can be found in the history of the 'Snowglobe' wiki page. They've been removed from the current page to avoid new Residents stumbling across them and using Snowglobe without knowing that it is outdated software. On 08/08/2011 12:23 AM, a...@skyhighway.com wrote: > [...] re-installing didn't help. i've done everything i can think of to figure > out where Snowglobe could be writing useful stuff about why it won't > start, but no luck. Your idea to look at the logs is good, so do that before you do anything else. Other things that you might want to try are re-installing graphics drivers or re-installing/repair-installing the operating system. (Backup your data before doing the latter!) Cheers, Boroondas _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
