Rolling restarts rescheduled
by Tateru Nino 
Jan 29th 2008 at 11:30PM
Filed under: Bugs, Patches, News items, Second Life
Well, we don't envy Linden Lab's staff today (actually, come to that, we don't envy them most days). Today's Second Life central-servers update didn't go well. In fact, it went far worse than we actually thought it would.
Apparently the code (which reportedly had passed QA just fine) failed on implementation, got rolled back, fixed and rolled out again, resulting in a day of general unpleasantness for users and Linden staffers alike.
The rolling restart that was supposed to take place never really got going, and now that's going to take place tomorrow. The new schedule is Wednesday, 30 January (tomorrow, essentially) from 2PM SLT (US Pacific) for five hours. We're still not convinced that all the cleaning up will be done by 7PM SLT, but we'd be more than happy to be proven wrong on that.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nika Dreamscape said on 11:41PM 1-29-2008
Ouch, so that was the problem, huh? Well, it certainly hasn't been fun. But I'm a little relieved to know that its a 'diagnosed' problem. For awhile, I was afraid there was something wrong with my client or my internet connection. I'm sure they'll have it fixed soon.
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William said on 8:36AM 1-30-2008
The Rolling Re-Start has Not been rescheduled,
It has bee n scheduled for the 30th since last week at the Least.
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Tateru Nino said on 9:01AM 1-30-2008
Actually, it was announced on the 28th, but you're right. Apparently it was originally scheduled to go on the 30th. Oops. We messed up.
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sandynjosh said on 11:54AM 1-30-2008
...with a rolling restart of most Second Life regions on Wednesday...
What's with the word, "MOST," in that sentence?
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Tateru Nino said on 11:51AM 1-30-2008
That's a very good question, actually. Perhaps they have test regions on the main grid that have already been restarted - for test purposes.
sandynjosh said on 12:12PM 1-30-2008
Ummm...I think it's the mail grid that is for "test purposes."
We are really all little white rats in a lab who imagine we are humans pretending to be avatars.
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