Stuck on initializating VFS screen (and tried all the fixes)

[Xara Valeska]

So I've been running SL for years and I've never encountered this problem. I boot it up today and it gets stuck on "Initializing VFS" with a white screen, which then becomes frozen and I have to hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete and all that good stuff to get rid of it.

I've been looking around for similar problems and I found a few forum posts and tickets. They always say to do clean installs, delete everything in the appdata folders, restart before you even start up SL again for another try. I've done everything they've said, but it still isn't working.

Again, after clean installs, deleting the appdata folders and restarting, I am still having the same problem. This is getting really infuriating, as the bug is always fixed after that. 

Oh, and yes, I do use Firestorm. I have the same problem with that, did the same steps. Nothing's working.

 

I have Windows 7 64 bit, Intel Core i7 and SLI Nvidia 460 SE's (Not sure if that helps, but I don't know what will at this point)

 

ANY suggestions would be so greatly appreciated, thank you.

[Charolotte Caxton]

The few times this has happened to me, I unplugged my router for a few seconds, plugged it back in, and then logged in to my viewer.

Don't know if this will help you, but it's easy to try.

[Xara Valeska]

I'm on wireless and the person who has the router is -very- grumpy when I touch it. I'll give it a try though and report back.

[Charolotte Caxton]

Lol, give them a cookie and then be very very sneaky

[Griffin Ceawlin]

I was gonna say... wait until they go on a bathroom break, and when they come back and see the router cycling, swear that you didn't touch it.

[Charolotte Caxton]

Haha, or run into the room exclaiming, oh no! news reporter says we must unplug all our routers immediately! 

Why?

No time for questions, must unplug!!

[Griffin Ceawlin]

LOL.

Hmmm. Dunno if that will work.

@Xara: It might help if, when he/she gets back from the bathroom, you are so completely absorbed in a wall of text in your browser that you "didn't notice a thing."

[Charolotte Caxton]

Ha, or walk up to the power cable, yank it from the wall and yell, who unplugged the router??!! as you hold it out furiously, dangling it for emphasis.

[Griffin Ceawlin]

Oh, hell, go to the electrical service, flip the main off and back on, and ask "Did you see the lights flicker?"

[Charolotte Caxton]

[Dilbert Dilweg]

VFS is the virtual file system . Try running your vierwer in adminstrators mode. possible windows 7 is giving fits on writing data to your PC

[Thinkerer Melville]

The restart router is good 

Other things to try:  See if there is anything new in the path between your computer and the wireless anntenna.  Has either one been moved? Did you turn your computer so that the wireless signal has to go through the computer.  Any new furniture been put there?  Anything on the wall? Mirror?  If at all possible, see if you can test with a wired connection.  Or see if you can change (preferably shorten) the signal path.

Go to the Nvidea site and see if your graphic driver is up to date. (Never trust windows up date to update your drivers.)  

TKR 

[Boudicca Littlebird]

I have had this problem, clear the sl folder, delete it in appdata/local and appdata/roaming, you will find the problem gone, rem the sim it happened to you and never visit it again.

[Xara Valeska]

Tried all that, but now I'm back from the whole router escapade. 

 

When I plugged it back in the internet went down for a while (like a few hours). It's back up and...

(starting up Firestorm now)...

now I have the login screen! Good gods, I hope this doesn't happen again. That was both infuriating and tedious... well, I can't always sneak into his room like that. Next time he might find me. Thanks for the suggestions (even the sneaking around ones-- I'll have to try cookies, he seems to like those)!

[Charolotte Caxton]

Yay!