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TasmanPerth · 01-17-2009, 11:13 AM

Hi Everybody! Wanting to run my own sim, and seeing the link to the $15/mo vps, I signed up and chose the Debian 4/etch 32bit os, and proceeded to install Mono, and the latest build of OpenSim. The build went fine, but when I followed the instructions on setting ODE as the physics engine, the sim would start then blow up on libode.so. When using basic physics, everything was peachy, but for me walking thru walls and sinking into prims... Spent from just before xmas till just a few days ago beating my head on what was wrong.. Tried the opensim IRC channel.. They said I had to separately build the ode library, tried that, apparently my vps had a slightly askew build environment such that the automake utilitiy was the wrong version, and even after installing the correct version, the ode build complained it was still the wrong automake version. Another kind soul advised that that bug was squashed in OpenSim build 7904.. Tried a reinstall of 7907 (the current build when I looked).. No change... I gave up Opensim for a while, but checking back on a question thread I posted on the OpenGrid.org forum, someone said that the only fix was to upgrade Debian 4/etch/stable to Debian5/lenny/unstable... Once I found out how to do that, the sim does ode just fine now.... I just assumed that the TekTonic Level 1 Debian 4/32bit vps that was recommended, would run correctly in the default configuration... BTW: the upgrade from etch to lenny was a piece of cake.. There are several good tutorials on doing the upgrade.. Takes about an hour.. Google "Debian Etch to Lenny" Just wanted to save others the trouble I went thru... Tas

01-17-2009, 11:13 AM	#15 (permalink)
TasmanPerth Junior G-Gal... Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Sin City, USA (Las Vegas NV) Posts: 3 My Mood: SL Join Date: June 5, 2005	Debian 4 Gotcha.... Hi Everybody! Wanting to run my own sim, and seeing the link to the $15/mo vps, I signed up and chose the Debian 4/etch 32bit os, and proceeded to install Mono, and the latest build of OpenSim. The build went fine, but when I followed the instructions on setting ODE as the physics engine, the sim would start then blow up on libode.so. When using basic physics, everything was peachy, but for me walking thru walls and sinking into prims... Spent from just before xmas till just a few days ago beating my head on what was wrong.. Tried the opensim IRC channel.. They said I had to separately build the ode library, tried that, apparently my vps had a slightly askew build environment such that the automake utilitiy was the wrong version, and even after installing the correct version, the ode build complained it was still the wrong automake version. Another kind soul advised that that bug was squashed in OpenSim build 7904.. Tried a reinstall of 7907 (the current build when I looked).. No change... I gave up Opensim for a while, but checking back on a question thread I posted on the OpenGrid.org forum, someone said that the only fix was to upgrade Debian 4/etch/stable to Debian5/lenny/unstable... Once I found out how to do that, the sim does ode just fine now.... I just assumed that the TekTonic Level 1 Debian 4/32bit vps that was recommended, would run correctly in the default configuration... BTW: the upgrade from etch to lenny was a piece of cake.. There are several good tutorials on doing the upgrade.. Takes about an hour.. Google "Debian Etch to Lenny" Just wanted to save others the trouble I went thru... Tas