I'm trying to get the houdini hqueue cloud render to work in houdini 11.1 running on a mac with lion os 10.7.2.
When I press the render button nothing happens.
I check my amazon ec2 acount console and I do not see an instance launched.
What am i missing?
Here is what I see in my mac Console:

2/7/12 2:09:42.000 AM kernel: nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2

Don't know if this is related.
What am I missing?

I have had this working in houdini 10 on an older mac running snowleopard.

thanks
-syntheticperson

As a reality check, I tried this using apprentice on the older mac running snow leopard. I was able to get this to work, with generate IFDs disabled, which is a requirement for apprentice.

Still not able to get it to work in houdini 11.1 commercial edition on lion.

In cloudsubmit.log all I see is:

2012-02-10 01:38:52,833 INFO: cloudsubmit starting up
2012-02-10 01:44:14,585 INFO: cloudsubmit starting up
2012-02-10 01:44:31,829 INFO: cloudsubmit starting up

But the browser does not automatically open the amazon queue console.
I set the default browser to safari, in case that was the issue. No joy.

Any assistance would be really appreciated at this point.

thanks

-syntheticperson

Hi,

This seems related to this issue [sidefx.com] which I have just logged a bug for.

If you install a 10.0.x version of Houdini I expect it would work in case that helps.

Thanks for your reply. The fact I was able to get houdini 11.1 apprentice cloud render to work on snowleopard is pointing the blame toward lion. I'm installing a lion upgrade to see if it helps.

Unfortunately upgrading lion to it's latest patches, and updating houdini to Houdini 11.1.201 didn't work.
If no one replies in 24 hours that they have managed to get hqueue to work in the amazon ec2 cloud using lion mac os, I'll have to submit this as a bug.
-syntheticperson