My Second Life Viewer will not open after an update.

[Slayer000]

After updating my SL Viewer, I can no longer open it. It will say "Initializing VFS" before crashing. I already tried a clean reinstall but the same thing keeps happening. How do I fix the problem so I can log back on?

[Madelaine McMasters]

Hi Slayer,

You're experiencing a bug in the latest release of the viewer that's been vexing quite a few people. Some are finding that reverting to a previous version, switching to a project channel viewer or switching to a third party viewer gets them going again, though reverting isn't quite straightforward.

I'm going to recommmend you download the Firestorm Viewer and use it until Linden Lab fixes the bug in the official viewer. You'll find Firestorm here...

http://www.firestormviewer.org/downloads/

If you don't wish to use Firestorm, you can find the project channel viewers here (the last two of the five viewers available for download)...

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Alternate_Viewers

Note that the project viewers are not released, and so may contain other li'l problems. Caveat downloader.

Other third party viewers can be found here...

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory

 

Good luck!