I have installed houdini maybe 4 to 6 times now. No problems at all during installation, but when I'm trying to start licensing houdini the problems surface…
sourcing houdini_setup_bash goes fine, but when running hkey it opens a dialog reading “Connecting to license server” the dialog stays there for a looooooong time. Then a dialog pops up saying “License error: Unable to connect to hserver for license acquisition.” After an hour or so, and a couple of those same messages the licensing software come up, telling me that:
1. The license server is not running
2. The license server may not serve licenses
3. The license server does not allow this machine to read licenses
File/Install Licenses and Manually enter keys are both grayed out and thus not selectable.
When I try to start, restart or stop /etc/init.d/sesinetd it always fails
mman@b52
etc/init.d$ sudo sh sesinetd start* Starting Houdini License server sesinetd
Tried also
mman@b52
etc/init.d$ sesictrl -fLicense Error: Unable to connect to hserver for license acquisition
No server found at localhost:1714
Diagnostic Output:
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License Administrator output:
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Generated on: Fri Nov 16 01:41:01 2007
Local host name: b52
Local server code: df61a100
Local ip address: 10.0.0.1
Number of servers: 1
License server name: b52 (b52)
Server ip address: 10.0.0.1
License server is running: No
License Administrator version: 9.0.768
Http proxy host: (none)
Can retrieve http://license.sidefx.com/index.php: [license.sidefx.com] Yes
Installed licenses:
LicID Platform Product Ver Avail Expiry
—– ——– ——- — —– ——
sesictrl -i output:
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Cannot connect to server b52 (10.0.0.1)- verify that sesinetd is running.
hserver -l output:
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licenses file:
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* Could not open the licenses file. *
running hserver -l just gives no ouput. Feels like it hangs up or something.
Have to break it with ctrl-c.
My /etc/hosts looks like following:
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.0.0.1 b52.localdomain.com b52
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
I've also tried to change the second line from the hosts file to
10.0.0.1 b52
but it didn't help at all. I also commented out all the ipv6 entries, but the problem persists.
I also tried setting some environment variables dealing with threads and usage of opengl (don't remember the exact variables right now) but it still didn't work.
All the houdini related processes I have managed to get running are hserver and houdini-bin. I guess the sesinetd should have a process too?
My system specs are:
Linux b52 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
(Also tried on realtime Ubuntu Studio 7.10 kernel. Don't have the exact version handy right now).
OS: Ubuntu 7.10 x86 (although “upgraded” to Ubuntu Studio)
CPU: AMD64
And now the interesting part. The first time (yesterday) I installed houdini to this very same system, I managed to get the apprentice license. Starting houdini wasn't easy, but after running the houdini a dozen of times it started. It was veeery slow because I had Compiz still running in background (and a dozen - 1 houdinis
) so I quit houdini, removed compiz and never could run houdini after that… With or without compiz 
Any help or ideas?
Thanks in advance.
