My second life viewer suddenly will not open, just as was asked by someone 15 minutes ago...

[jillgoodgal]

I even tried redownloading.  It stops at the 'VFS' part and just hangs, I notice the 'Loading Textures' is passing by much faster than it used to.  It was working up until an hour or so ago.  Running Windows XP, never had any real problems until tonight.

[Rolig Loon]

If this occurs, chance are good that the inventory cache is corrupt. Deleting it should solve the problem.

• Locate your cache folder. You will probably need to do this manually, if you are unable to log in. Use a file manager (like Windows Explorer for Windows system, Dolphin, or some such) to locate the cache folder. In its default location, the cache folder is hidden on most OSs. To find it, you will need to show hidden folders. If you are using Firestorm, the default cache locations are here.  (For other viewers, the file names are almost identical. Just substitute the name of your viewer for "Firestorm" and you ought to be able to find them)....
  • Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[uSERNAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Firestorm
  • Windows Vista: C:\Users\[uSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm
  • Windows 7: C:\Users\[uSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm
  • Mac: ~/Library/Caches/Firestorm
  • linux: ~/.firestorm/cache
• In this folder, locate the files named data.db2.x.* and index.db2.x.* (where * is a digit: 0, 1, 2, etc; you may have more than one of each type of file)
• Delete all files that match these two names.
• Log back into SL, to a quiet region (try Hippo Hollow, Aich or Hatton). Allow your inventory to repopulate fully.

If the above fails, then try doing a full wipe of all settings.