• Teleports are optional,
• Search won't,
• Friends lists are optional,
• Money is Loading....,
• Changing clothes is a luxury,
• Europeans are reporting packet loss at high levels too

I've been teleporting around all evening on a window-shopping spree. Suddenly one of my group IMs buzzed to life with "Is it only me or can no one teleport?" Over the next few minutes we've had no ability to build, search is borked (nothing shows up even if you search for sex with mature checked, it must be bad!) and people that are relying on the dataserver for reading notecards and customer information are finding that's not working either.

No word from the official blog as yet, but your second life may be rather adversely affected. I may not see the resolution of this one, it's getting kind of late for me.

Comments in IMs, and now my personal experience suggest that the 1,200 sims down already reported is spreading... I received an IM saying "My coastal sim is now an island, maybe I should sell!" shortly before a crash that is bearing all the hall marks of a sim going down.

I guess we're looking at something nasty, possibly in the new code that was rolled out earlier today?

1. Crash bug on login (relating to the use of VBOs)
2. Map display problems.
3. Recompile scripts in selection not functioning.
4. Problems with the build UI.
5. Buy Pass not working properly.

• Still teleportation failures and issues with the presence mesh (the presence mesh is the system that allows you to map others, send IMs and group invitations to them, and provides online/offline status messages). Teleportation is reported mostly working, however.
  
• Some regions are down when showing as up -- or apparently up when they're showing as down.
• Occasional failed money transfers.
• Search is offline, they say. Well -- some of it. Okay, most of it. Classifieds are out (I wonder what the refund/rebate scheme for those is), Events, Popular Places, Land Sales, Places and Groups. That leaves All and People -- Since People is the only working search tab other than All, that basically just means People.
• Buying land is offline. This is expected to last into tomorrow due to 'parcel queries' being disabled. It's not yet clear as to whether this means that all that stuff in search will be out for the same length of time or not.
• The herald reports (language warning) that at least one sim got wiped either during or in the immediate aftermath of the update, and that concierge isn't taking calls. I've been told that large pieces of at least one other corporate sim apparently vanished at about the same time.
• If you'd like to marry or divorce within Second Life -- please keep your pants on. The partnering page is apparently non-functional. And wouldn't you know it? If you're trying to find a bar to drown your sorrows, you can't, because search is down.

• Teleportation is an iffy proposition, depending on where you are, where you want to go and when you want to do it. It either works or it doesn't, and many are reporting spurious access denied messages for normally open destinations.
• Linden Dollar balances display -- or don't. It's a bit of a mood thing, apparently, though it now seems to be working more often than it isn't.
• Search - Search is up and down (as they say) 'like the Assyrian Empire'. Now it works, now it doesn't. If you're trying to get a name into an abuse report, you may be just plain out of luck for an hour or more.
• Profiles are slow, slow, quick-quick, slow. Or just not appearing.
• Some rezzed objects are not appearing for many minutes -- or over an hour in some cases.
• Actually using the new friends functions may not work - no response for some time, or at all in some cases -- this appears to be linked to the same up and down cycle of search and profiles. Database clusters are obviously having a cow (or other indictable farm animal)
• Sims falling in a heap and not restarting themselves. An overworked gridmonkey is apparently dealing with them as swiftly as possible -- Send more bananas.

Well ... it is generally asserted that 1.12 is a success, in terms of an update that didn't break a whole load of new stuff. Fair enough. In my terms, however, it isn't a success, because I am still being bugged by the same old building bugs that have been driving me crazy for months and months. Plus I have a new lag problem which is affecting other people too. It's making building a pain, difficult, not enjoyable at all..

The "link failed, pieces too far apart" bug is still alive and well. This refuses to link an object even if the object is well within the maximum size available. In some cases I have had this message with hair and small objects, or with an object in the middle of an already linked object.

The "can't stretch inidividual prim of linked object even when you check edit linked parts" bug is alive and well. This means that if you try to stretch an individual prim in a linked object, it stretches but immediately springs back to its original size, until you unlink it.

The bug ... well I presume it is a bug ... which means that if you select a couple of prims from a linked object and delink them, the whole object, both unlinked and linked parts become selected, is still with us. This has meant recently that I inadvertently retextured a whole build because I hadn't realised the whole object was selected.

The bug which means that you can select three prims together, try to rotate them as one object and find that they are all rotating separately, but at the same time, is still around. Annoyingly, if you try to revert back by reversing the procedure, they will invariably then act the way that they should, as one object.

In addition, I am getting a delay between clicking on a texture window and seeing the texture picker open. It's only a couple of seconds, but when you are trying to retexture a complex object it makes everything so sloooow.

Oh, and I crash when I try to sort inventory or delete anything from inventory.

Fenrir reports on the forums problems with building in an empty sim with no connection problems, and I have the same problem. I had a discussion with one other avatar in an empty sim and was getting a 10-15 second delay on chat appearing.

I don't know what's up, but it is making trying to build for the project I am building for very frustrating indeed.

I posted a list of bugs and issues reported following the 1.11.2 update a short while ago, but this bug is potentially so costly for people that I thought I should make a separate entry for it.

Something has been a bit odd about auto-return since the 1.11 update, because people who own the land have been finding that if they build their prims are returned to them, in a seemingly random way.

Even on land with no auto return, people have reported odd things disappearing or being returned to them, although I hadn't experienced that until this morning. Oclee is building a set for publicity photographs of his fireplace, and needed a chair to put in the corner, of the right shape and elegance to go with a renaissance-style fireplace.

I dragged my Relic inventory box, by Toneless Tomba, from my inventory to the ground. The notecard that is delivered whenever it is rezzed was delivered to me, but the box never appeared. It has gone from my inventory and isn't in my lost and found or my trash. It has vanished off the face of my inventory and the world. It contains a lot of stuff that has sentimental value, things I have been given and have bought, and don't currently have out in my house.

I even removed the surface patch in case I had accidentally buried it. I haven't.

My advice is, don't rezz anything expensive, or any storage device for things you don't have copies of, really, don't rezz anything that isn't copyable, until they have fixed this. As people are reporting that vendors and buying are not delivering goods to them, maybe it would be sensible not to buy anything too expensive either?

Update: arrived about 20 minutes later, about 100 metres from where I rezzed it. Weird.

The click-through flashing pie menu bug, which means you immediately find yourself on the second layer, plus workaround, discussed here.

The leave edit, wear, crash bug, discussed here. The workaround? Don't do it, folks!

Residual chat message bug (where text turns up white instead of varied colours) is discussed here.

The lag-delay problem, which I have and is driving me NUTS, is discussed here. Although there are only three people on the thread including me, I have talked to a lot of people in world who have this problem too.

Alt/left/right clicking bug and workaround is outlined here with a workaround.

The page explaining SL's known issues page is here, with definition and a key for the symbols used, plus a link to the bug reporting 101.

The known issues list is here. It needs careful reading as we have 1.11.1, which is the current version, 1.11.2, which is the update in preview, and 1.12 which is also in preview.

I think the most useful thing I can do at this point is to list the problems people are reporting and links to forum discussions about them. I know for myself that one of the most frustrating things in SL is to experience problems with an update and not to know if you are alone or among dozens of other players with the same problem. People sometimes have workarounds too.

I encourage everyone to post bug reports on the things that are happening. It helps to give a lot of details and include if possible whether you are experiencing packet loss. You can get that information by mousing over the two bars in the top right hand corner of your screen, or by clicking on "About Second Life" in the help menu.

Explanation of how to cure the blank/black text problem by Char and Brent Linden. I had this, had to uninstall and reinstall to cure it.

Cube Linden explains push restrictions after widespread speculation and misunderstanding about it.

Possible problems with teleports discussed here.

Mouselook drift: mouselook drifting upwards bug discussed here.

Repeated crashing report by some residents here. I crashed on entry the first time after the update, but not for me. I went offline as far as my friend were concerned.

Sims crashing mentioned here.

Possible problem with leaving snapshot mode here and workaround.

Problem with posting snapshots to FLickr mentioned here.

Be warned that if you have auto-return set on a parcel, and then build new objects on that parcel, they may start returning. Workaround: switch off auto-return. The explanation may lie with this post, as the system is obviously not recognizing the owner of the object.

I love SL. I really, really do. It is a source of income, a source of friendship and support, a place to meet new people, to talk, to do interesting things. I have learned a lot about myself, about building, about people since I joined. I was searching for community when I moved from Uru to SL, but I found soo much more, and I care about it. I know I'm not alone.

So, the current unrest is driving me crazy. It stems from a number of things, I would say. There have been a lot of building bugs which haven't been fixed for a couple of updates. The one which was most frustrating before last Wednesday's update was a texturing bug which meant that if you selected an object and applied a texture, the texture would take on all but a couple of surfaces. Even if you textured and retextured, there were always multiple textures on the object.

Some people had residual problems with the 1.10 update, but the 1.11 update seems to have broken a lot of things, or changed them. One of the most infuriating things is not knowing whether something has been broken deliberately or not, because a change isn't documented. Like the temp-on-rez change I blogged about a couple of days ago. For people like Starax, whose best-selling wand depends on temp-on-rez behaving as it did, that sort of thing is very annoying. Not documenting it means that people who haven't read this blog or Starax's comments on the SL forum, are still trying desperately to work out what on earth has happened, like The Sojourner at Dreams, who posted a puzzled query on the Second Life Answers forum.