HQueueServer Houdini 13.0.562 not start on Windows 7 x64. Each time I try to start it it runs for a few seconds then dies. This is what gets written to the error log:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\Scripts\paster-script.py”, line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('PasteScript==1.7.3', ‘console_scripts’, ‘paster’)()
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pastescript-1.7.3-py2.7.egg\paste\script\command.py”, line 84, in run
invoke(command, command_name, options, args)
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pastescript-1.7.3-py2.7.egg\paste\script\command.py”, line 123, in invoke
exit_code = runner.run(args)
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pastescript-1.7.3-py2.7.egg\paste\script\command.py”, line 218, in run
result = self.command()
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pastescript-1.7.3-py2.7.egg\paste\script\serve.py”, line 276, in command
relative_to=base, global_conf=vars)
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pastescript-1.7.3-py2.7.egg\paste\script\serve.py”, line 313, in loadapp
**kw)
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pastedeploy-1.3.2-py2.7.egg\paste\deploy\loadwsgi.py”, line 204, in loadapp
return loadobj(APP, uri, name=name, **kw)
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pastedeploy-1.3.2-py2.7.egg\paste\deploy\loadwsgi.py”, line 225, in loadobj
return context.create()
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pastedeploy-1.3.2-py2.7.egg\paste\deploy\loadwsgi.py”, line 625, in create
return self.object_type.invoke(self)
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pastedeploy-1.3.2-py2.7.egg\paste\deploy\loadwsgi.py”, line 110, in invoke
return fix_call(context.object, context.global_conf, **context.local_conf)
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pastedeploy-1.3.2-py2.7.egg\paste\deploy\util\fixtypeerror.py”, line 57, in fix_call
val = callable(*args, **kw)
File “<stdin>”, line 44, in make_app
File “<stdin>”, line 25, in load_environment
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pylons-0.9.7rc4-py2.7.egg\pylons\configuration.py”, line 314, in init_app
self.set_defaults(template_engine)
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\pylons-0.9.7rc4-py2.7.egg\pylons\configuration.py”, line 320, in set_defaults
MIMETypes.init()
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\site-packages\webhelpers-0.6.3-py2.7.egg\webhelpers\mimehelper.py”, line 26, in init
mimetypes.init()
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\mimetypes.py”, line 355, in init
db.read_windows_registry()
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\mimetypes.py”, line 259, in read_windows_registry
for ctype in enum_types(mimedb):
File “e:\HQueueServer\python27\lib\mimetypes.py”, line 249, in enum_types
ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x!
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Thanks!

Thanks! You should log a bug for this.

https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=15603 [sidefx.com]

Solutions have so far not. Maybe someone knows what could be wrong? Russian Operating System Windows 7 x64.

Did you mention this in your bug report? I'd hazard a guess that it's a problem with using a default codepage and or unicode problems.

The problem was solved. We had to put here are the settings in the Region and Language Settings