I'm another newbie to linux and i'm trying to run houdini and i keep getting a crash log error when it launches. crash log doesn't really say much but just wondering if there's something that i'm over looking. Thanks.

Trying to doing a search here for fedora. I recall seeing someone had success with it. But as it's not a supported distribution right now.

I've gotten houdini to work on fedora core 4…but I have had some crashes…I believe the prob is something to do with libstdc++.so.6 and the version of gcc…I think houdini is looking for the older one….libstdc++.so.5

Not sure about that - it either runs or it doesn't, I don't think that issue manifests itself as sporadic crashes. We have libstdc++.so.6, but also libstdc++.so.5 installed as a backwards-campatibility lib here and it runs fine. Of course, we can run either compilation of Houdini, but I'm quite certain if Houdini needs this library on your system at a certain version, if it's not there, Houdini just won't start.

I was under the impression FC3 ran just fine, it was FC4 that introduced some problems with Secure Linux being enabled, but you can work around it.

Our experience has been that the different flavours out there don't really introduce as many problems as everyone thought they would. Things like sporadic crashes tend to almost always boil down to(the inevitable) graphics drivers and kernel version. *sigh*

Cheers,

J.C.

I updated the video driver and still a no go. still getting crash when houdini starts up.

Which version of houdini 8 did you download and install?

I ask only because there's a 64 bit version on the dowload site. Perhaps you used this one by accident?

I use houdini daily on FC3.

I downloaded houdini 8.0.410. do i need to update my kernel?

jdoza
I downloaded houdini 8.0.410. do i need to update my kernel?

Do you remember which file you downloaded?

There's 3 different ones for linux:

Linux x86_64 gcc3.4
Linux i686 gcc3.4
Linux i686 gcc3.2

I take it you are running a 32 bit system so the first file in this list would probably be no go for you.

I downloaded Linux i686 gcc3.2

A quick google shows FC3 uses gcc3.4. Try downloading that release instead. Note that occasionally some builds get missed on some days.

You don't need to upgrade your kernel, it's not kernel related.

Cheers,

J.C.

installed Linux i686 gcc3.4 and all is good now. Thanks for the info!