Destinations, Profile, How To, and Browser Windows Appear Blank

[TogarUshindi]

Any window that needs to connect up to web services is appearing blank in the official SL Viewer for Linux. I looked at the guide to opening ports in my firewall and that doesn't seem to have done anything to change it.

There's another person who reported a similar problem in 2017. Can anyone confirm if the information on that thread is accurate and that this is a known problem? Seems odd that there would be a bug for over 2 years and nothing being done about it.

This doesn't seem to be exclusive to Linux viewers either. Here's someone with the same problem, and they posted a screenshot.

Here's my "About" stats...
 

Second Life 5.0.9.329906 (Second Life Release)
Release Notes

You are at 20.7, 194.7, 26.9 in Social Island 2 located at sim10281.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.49.203:13007)
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Social%20Island%202/21/195/27
(global coordinates 261909.0, 268483.0, 26.9)
Second Life Server 2019-12-04T20:29:26.533447
Release Notes

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         750  @ 2.67GHz (2941.26 MHz)
Memory: 16001 MB
OS Version: Linux 5.3.0-26-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 18 05:37:46 UTC 2019 x86_64
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2

OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 435.21

Window size: 1408x1136
Font Size Adjustment: 96pt
UI Scaling: 1
Draw distance: 128m
Bandwidth: 500kbit/s
LOD factor: 1.125
Render quality: 5 / 7
Advanced Lighting Model: Enabled
Texture memory: 512MB
VFS (cache) creation time: January 10 2020 20:12:38

J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.2
Audio Driver Version: Undefined
LLCEFLib/CEF Version: Undefined
LibVLC Version: Undefined
Voice Server Version: Vivox

Packets Lost: 31/72321 (0.0%)
January 10 2020 20:12:38

 

Edited January 11, 2020 by TogarUshindi

[Fritigern Gothly]

@TogarUshindi that viewer is way old, it was released on November 17, 2017. 
LL has since stopped development of the Linux version of the official viewer quite a while ago, leaving that task to the Third Party Viewer (TPV) coders. Since that date, many new technologies have seen the light which are now unsupported by that ancient viewer.

As a fellow Linux user (I use Kubuntu), my recommendation is to get yourself a third party viewer. I use Firestorm, but you could try Singularity (I recommend the nightlies!) or one of the other ones from the Third Party Viewer directory which may tickle your fancy.

EDIT: I noticed that in your system info, it says:

• J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.2
• Audio Driver Version: Undefined
• LLCEFLib/CEF Version: Undefined
• LibVLC Version: Undefined
• Voice Server Version: Vivox

The undefined parts seem a bit odd. The CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) libraries being undefined explain why you can't see anything web-related. For some reason it looks as if CEF fails to load on your machine. Have you tried rebooting yet? If so, was there any improvement? And have you tried a reinstall yet?

Anyway, here's my details from Firestorm, I took out the location details, because that's not really interesting at all. This allows you to compare your own details to mine 🙂
 

Firestorm 6.3.2 (58052) Sep 28 2019 09:32:20 (64bit) (Firestorm-Releasex64) 

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       X 990  @ 3.47GHz (1728.12 MHz)
Memory: 11969 MB
OS Version: Linux 5.3.0-24-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 14 01:33:18 UTC 2019 x86_64
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 660/PCIe/SSE2

OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.44

RestrainedLove API: RLV v3.2.1 / RLVa v2.2.0.58052
libcurl Version: libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.8 nghttp2/1.25.0
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.10.7
Audio Driver Version: FMOD Studio 2.00.03
Dullahan: 1.1.1320 / CEF: 3.3626.1895.g7001d56 / Chromium: 72.0.3626.121
LibVLC Version: 2.2.3
Voice Server Version: Not Connected
Settings mode: Phoenix
Viewer Skin: AnsaStorm (Bright Blue)
Window size: 1920x1021 px
Font Used: Deja Vu (96 dpi)
Font Size Adjustment: 0 pt
UI Scaling: 1
Draw distance: 128 m
Bandwidth: 3000 kbit/s
LOD factor: 2
Render quality: High-Ultra (6/7)
Advanced Lighting Model: Yes
Texture memory: 512 MB (1)
VFS (cache) creation time (UTC): unknown
Built with GCC version 40902
Packets Lost: 0/1785 (0.0%)
January 11 2020 00:36:59 SLT

 

 

Edited January 11, 2020 by Fritigern Gothly
I've underlined the links to emphasise that they ARE links. LOL