OK, thanks. Sort of like the good old days. 8-) BTW, if anyone wants to go to the Magic Castle in Hollywood, ever, I am a member and can send you an invitation good for 8 people.
ponzu On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Trilo Byte <trilobyte5...@gmail.com>wrote: > It's not you, it's been happening to others. A lot. > > Before Christmas it happened much less frequently, but since then the > phenomenon's been occurring at least once a day. Sometimes they're ??? at > login, sometimes they show properly at first and then flip to ??? on their > own. Sometimes the ???'s remain throughout the session, and sometimes they > flip back to show the correct names. It happens regardless of whether the > user has a Display Name set or not. > > I've also noticed that if someone with a ??? name types an action in group > chat (line starting with /me) it displays their user name. Also, sometimes, > if you look up the profile of a person showing ??? it shows the correct name > on the profile. As far as I can tell, it's a server-side condition that > only appears to be happening on Display Names capable viewers. > > https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/DN-202 > > On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:36 AM, Ponzu wrote: > > ....Last night I was using the 2.5 beta I had just built from the weekend's > changes, and this odd thing happened... > > I logged in. My friends list showed ???. (Odd, the pictures load OK, but > not the names.) I had been logged in about 15 minutes. > > Then I got an IM from Grumpity Productengine. So far as I know, I don't > know Grumpity. I assumed it was someone from this list. The text of the > message was something like, "Hi. I was between Highland and La Brea on > Franklin, so I thought of you." This message is significant to me, but I > don't know how any Productengines would know that. > > So, I started having a conversation with Grumpity, trying to hide my > embarrassment about not really knowing who it was. > > After two or three minutes, I noticed that Grumpity was now ???. After a > bit of conversation, I finally figured out I was talking to a friend named > Aphrodite Tagore. After ten minutes more, the ??? changed to Aphrodite > Tagore and all was more or less normal (snafu 8-). > > No, I do not have a repro. No, I was not stoned beyond oblivion. > > Just reporting on the off chance that someone will find the information > useful for debugging some display name problem or something. > > regards, > ponzu > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > > >
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