Linkshell Issue

It appears there my be an issue with linkshells... this morning, I logged into my character from Gridania's Inn and checked my linkshell list; everything was fine and I could communicate with every no problem. However, I received a tell from a member asking if he'd been kicked; apparently the linkshell was working fine for him initially, but it later disappeared from his list.

When he came to me to get a new pearl, I found that I couldn't give one to him (I am/was the shellholder, btw), as it said something along the lines of "No active pearl selected". I then tried switching to another linkshell and back, but I couldn't switch back to my original shell. As that was no longer an option, I tried logging out to see if that fixed the problem, but when I came back into the came, my shell was gone. However, the other members verified that the LS list still showed me as the leader. Naturally, the system to send GM reports is down in-game, so hopefully this is the place to get some feedback/submit bug reports....

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I've just randomly got this as well.
I couldn't switch to 2 of my LS so I ended up relogging and upon logging back in both of the pearls were gone.
Pretty much exact same as what happened with you.

From my shells now 26 people have this problem and it seems to be in Ul'dah not the wards where this problem is, and this has happened to me too within the last ten minutes and despite being a leader, I cannot change shells either if in Ul'dah itself. The message being "Unable to switch active linkshell to “Conviction Community.”, I know the others that have relogged are now unpearled. I can go in the wards and change but cannot repearl people.

We lost both of our Endgame shells, One is "Conviction Community" the other is "Conviction" every member is starting to get booted.

ISP:
Rogers Communications (Canada)

Type of Internet Connection:
High speed Cable

Internet Connection Speed:
50Mbits/s

Date & Time:
01/04/12 (if this is an April fools joke, I /bow to that. haha. Nice touch with the Avatars)

Frequency:
Once, but It's happening to people randomly from within my shell. It doesn't seem to be biased, new and old. all the new members have been kicked besides one at this time.

Character Name:
Myrddin Soleece
Ste Dragonclaw
Lady Crim
Esthar Falcus
Dragon...
(that's all I know so far)

World:
Hyperion

Steps:
I had the shell on earlier, I heard that someone that had the shell needed a new one, someone mentioned it in LS chat. I'm not equiped to give them out so I ignored it.

I was able to talk in the shell at this point.

I switched to a different shell.

Someone sent me a /tell to see if I was able to get into the shell I wasn't.

They told me when they logged and came back in the shells disappeared, So I tried the same and it happened to me.

So somehow bother our LS's got bugged.
We were doing Ifrit and Aurum Vale. Over the last few days.

I've personally be doing MNK and WHM quests. and PUG as well.
Could have something to do with entering instances, I'm not sure, but that seems to be where a majority of you're problems lie, that and Ul'dah.

Another not: Genesis Nova was unable to get into the shell Ul'dah, Rather then logging out and losing the shell like the rest of that, he went to wards to switch and it worked. That leads me to believe Ul'dah is the Issue.

Ul'dah is where I lost my shell. And lost connectivity to it.

I just went over to Limsa and relogged. Got both LS back.

Edit: I can replicate the bug by simply re-entering Ul'dah and it's fixed as soon as I head into the wards or leaving Ul'dah.

For me it only affects the linkshells "Conviction" and "Conviction Community" which are LS numbers 1 and 4 in my list.

they're 5 and 6 in mine and those are the only two

Been meaning to post again but forgot so late addition.
This isn't a new issue since the merge. Someone in my LS had this problem roughly 2-3 weeks before the merges happened.