massive problems with trying to run viewer in linux (Ubuntu)

[Caerolle Llewellyn]

I am trying to run the viewer in linux, and am having a lot of issues, am hoping you can give me a little direction!

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on an i5, 2.67 Mhz, with 4 GB memory. The Ubuntu is 32-bit, so can't use all the memory, but memory doesn't seem to be a problem, always quite a lot free.

I can log in fine, but I can't TP out of the region where I log in; if I try, it just times out, and kicks me out of sl (get the View IM/Quit popup). I can TP within the sim. Also, names of my contact don't load, and my groups don't load, and none of the fields in About Land are populated. I notice that my inventory seems to have hung up, too--it says it is fetching several hundred items, but never finishes. Finally, though this isn't a major deal, none of the media work, even thought I have load gstreamer plugin.

I tried deleting all the files in cache (manually, in file system, not in Preferences) and deleting all the bridge files and rebuilding the bridge. I also have tried bandwidth at 300, 500, and 1500 (my download speeds are around 11, my upload around 1.4, and ping around 100 ms), and tried low resolution graphics setting.

I downloaded several other viewers, and they all do the same thing, so it seems to be something with Ubuntu, but I have no idea what. :((((

I have spent the last few days looking through support sites for the various viewers on linux, and one thing that has popped up a few times is a nameserv (DNS?) issue, but I don't know how to check that or fix it.

Oh, and one final thing, I added Ubuntu as dual boot to Windows 7, and the viewer works fine if I boot into Windows and use it there.

I am sorry for the long email, but if you have any ideas I'd really appreciate it. I'd like to stick with Ubuntu, but if I can't get sl to work, that is a deal breaker for me!

Thanks so very much for any help you can give me!

Caer  :)

 

Here are the viewer and system info:

Second Life 3.3.4 (262321) Jul 23 2012 20:27:52 (Second Life Release)
Release Notes

You are at 146812.0, 259757.0, 535.8 in Chocolat located at sim9412.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.43.115:13002)
Second Life Server 12.08.14.263480
Error fetching server release notes URL.

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz (2661 MHz)
Memory: 4026 MB
OS Version: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:25:43 UTC 2012 i686
Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series

OpenGL Version: 4.2.11627 Compatibility Profile Context

libcurl Version: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.1
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v6.4.1
Audio Driver Version: OpenAL, version 1.1 ALSOFT 1.11.753 / OpenAL Community / OpenAL Soft: PulseAudio Software
Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded)
Voice Server Version: Vivox

Built with GCC version 40103
Packets Lost: 0/5261 (0.0%)

[Jenni Darkwatch]

This does indeed sound more like a network problem. Considering that Linux doesn't by default have any firewall or internet security junk active, I'd be curious if you could check the network settings in Win7 and in Ubuntu. Do they match? DNS, gateway, IP and all?