So I installed Windows 7 on to a new SSD and am unable to render to the cloud. However, it continues to work under the previous Windows install on the old drive.

I have tried as many variables as possible and see no practical difference between the two environments. Also, I can manually start instances via the AWS console. I have tried with 3 versions of Houdini (11.1.118 as latest).

Are there any common issues to look into? I have set windows up as I normally would.

The Cloudsubmit.log info is below:

2011-12-28 14:31:31,548 INFO: cloudsubmit starting up
2011-12-28 14:31:38,601 INFO: Starting cloud server
2011-12-28 14:31:38,671 INFO: RPC: “GET / HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,752 INFO: RPC: “GET /cloudsubmit.css HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,753 INFO: RPC: “GET /jquery-1.3.2.js HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,755 INFO: RPC: “GET /jsonrpc.js HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,756 INFO: RPC: “GET /json2.js HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,757 INFO: RPC: “GET /cloudheader.js HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,759 INFO: RPC: “GET /cloudsubmit.js HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,861 INFO: RPC: “GET /cloud_header_background.png HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,862 INFO: RPC: “GET /cloud_close_button.png HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,865 INFO: RPC: “GET /cloud_terminated.png HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,875 INFO: RPC: “GET /cloud_scroll_left.png HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,877 INFO: RPC: “GET /cloud_scroll_right.png HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,878 INFO: RPC: “GET /cloud_terminate_button.png HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,882 INFO: RPC: “GET /thinking_cloud.gif HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:38,884 INFO: RPC: “GET /houdini_icon.png HTTP/1.1” 200 -
2011-12-28 14:31:44,298 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:31:51,342 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:31:58,535 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:32:05,540 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:32:12,726 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:32:19,757 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:32:26,891 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:32:34,035 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:32:41,153 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:32:48,171 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:32:55,263 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:33:02,384 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:33:09,546 ERROR: Exception caught while trying to launch cloud instance. Will retry in 5 seconds
2011-12-28 14:33:16,517 ERROR: Unable to launch cloud instance
2011-12-28 14:33:16,517 ERROR: Error starting function ‘<function _startCloudRenderThread at 0x000000000CA13438>’ in new thread.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.118\houdini\python2.6libs\cloudsubmit.py”, line 978, in actualTarget
target()
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.118\houdini\python2.6libs\cloudsubmit.py”, line 159, in _startCloudRenderThread
_getAWSConnectionOrShutdown(), instance_type, license_category)
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.118\houdini\python2.6libs\cloudsubmit.py”, line 209, in _findOrStartCloudServer
_startCloudServer(aws_connection, instance_type, license_category)
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.118\houdini\python2.6libs\cloudsubmit.py”, line 302, in _startCloudServer
aws_connection, “the cloud server”, instance_type, license_category)
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.118\houdini\python2.6libs\cloudsubmit.py”, line 1404, in startInstanceAndWaitUntilRunning
aws_connection, instance_type, license_category, server_machine)
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.118\houdini\python2.6libs\cloudsubmit.py”, line 1424, in beginStartingInstance
assert(len(response.structure) == 2)
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘structure’
2011-12-28 14:33:16,529 INFO: _shutdown
2011-12-28 14:33:16,532 INFO: waiting for a few seconds
2011-12-28 14:33:26,532 INFO: shutdown called
2011-12-28 14:33:26,533 INFO: cloudsubmit process exiting

same probleme here, if you have find a solution. thanks !

I am sure the problem is not Houdini itself, but something else installed with it, like the cloud rendering server. I'm going to log a bug report.

In my working environment (11.0.733 first installed), I can run any version of Houdini from my different drive partitions to render to the cloud. In my non-working environment (11.1.108 first installed) none of the exact same binaries of Houdini render to the cloud.