Hi all,

I'm trying to uninstall several previous versions of Houdini via the admin tools but it unfortunately doesn't work. The uninstaller just sits and spins. Nothing going on at all. Console doesn't report anything either, and I don't see a menu item to show me a log.
How can I find out what's going wrong? I can manually uninstall but it's annoying to have to do that on OSX vs the single directory of Linux.

Any tips would be great!

Cheers

Well, that's how I did it, mac os X 10.5.6…

Unpacked downloaded dmg, opened pkg, and went through the installation and got the spinning ball and nothing… Then I disabled internet connection, run setup again and everything went fine…

Then, every time I first start houdini upon the os boot, if my wireless internet connection is up, it'd take few minutes of spinning ball, and error connecting to hserver message in the end… When I shut down wireless, Houdini starts normally. If I for some reason quit houdini session and then start it again with wireless on… everything goes fine.

I have firewall setup with rules allowing hodini, hserver and license config to connect to internet/sidefx..

So, maybe if you shut down your internet connection un-installation will end fine…

Or it's just my crazy computer :roll:

Every other aspect of installing and running Houdini works without issue. It's only something that's failing behind the scenes I assume of the uninstall script.

There was an uninstall problem on the mac that was fixed. If you grab the gold version of Houdini 10, it should work fine.

I did and it didn't change.
Let it sit over lunch but just ended up removing by hand once I got back.

I've heard of one other incident like this, and the problem was that the spotlight has been turned off on that Mac. The uninstaller uses spotlight API to search for any moved or copied application bundles to fully uninstall Houdini. This problem is logged as bug 33511.

Yep spotlight is indeed turned off. Never figured I'd need it when I can use the locate database.