Hello to all!!!

I've just downloaded and installed houdini-9.1.124-linux_i686_gcc4.1, for Ubuntu Linux 7.04.
The installation was OK, but when I try to open Houdini, two problems happen:

Fisrt it tries to connect to the Licence Server and has no success.

After that, the Licence Administrator window appears, I click on “Install a Non-Commercial Licence” and when I click “Accept” in the End User Licence Ageement window, it freezes for a while and then appears an error message saying “Key installation failed for linux-zrsm”.

The machine ia a notebook Compaq Presario X6000 + ATI Mobility Radeon X600 + OpenSuse 10.3.

Can anyone helpe me???

Thanks a lot!!!


PS: Sorry for the bad English.

it looks like the License Server process is not running on your machine. The installer should have started it for you, but something must have gone wrong. You can start it manually by running /usr/lib/sesi/sesinetd executable.
It is probably best if you start it as a root, then it will be able to create files in this directory and to write license keys to the licenses file in that directory.

Then the License Administrator should be able to connect to it and instruct it to install the licenses.

If you are more curious about the licensing mechanisms, here is an excerpt from an answer to a similar problem that you are having:


Houdini is using a licensing processes Houdini License Server (sesinetd.exe)
and Houdini License Client (hserver.exe) to verify its licensing. They run as
daemons on Linux and as system services on Windows. Houdini is using TCP/IP to
communicate with these processes and if it is unable to connect one of these
services, it prints the error messages. There are a few reasons why Houdini is
not able to connect to hserver or hserver to sesinetd. The most common ones
are:
- Houdini License Server (sesinetd.exe) is not running
- Houdini License Client (hserver.exe) is not running
- the firewall blocks the communication on ports 1714 and 1715
- Another possible source of the problem is that Houdini was not installed as
Administrator, so these services could not be automatically started with
proper privileges.

You may want to try rebooting your computer and see if services start
automatically. Otherwise, you will need to start the executables manually.
They should be located in C:\Windows\System32\ or /usr/lib/sesi/. On Windows you
may try to add them as system services so that they start automatically.
If you are running a firewall, you should allow communication on port
1714 and 1715.

Thanks a Lot!!!

I'll look for your specifications!!


Thanks again!!!

The same happens to me. I`m new to all this stuff, espically coding, ect…, where/how do I manually run

/usr/lib/sesi/sesinetd executable. ???

I thought the sesinetd was executable by default . Installing as root always works for me.

rob

where/how do I manually run /usr/lib/sesi/sesinetd executable?

You just need to type the executable file name in the command line terminal window.

In the above post, I mentioned /usr/lib/sesi/sesinetd but there is also /etc/init.d/sesinetd script that should automatically launch sesinetd on machine startup.

Check out this FAQ: http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1208&Itemid=273#daemon [sidefx.com]