Hi!
I'm trying to install Houdini (the newest daily build and the newest stable release behaves the same - this is 10.0.)
When I'm installing it on fedora 12 on my desktop computer everything is ok, but when I'm trying to install it on my laptop, something goes wrong - while installing it on the end of installation the installer is stopping the license serwer - this takes very very long and after the time there is an error:
“Stopping Houdini License server FAILED” and the setup process continues and installs the houdini to the end.

But after installation I simply cannot stop license server - when I'm trying to do it i always get the same message (failed).
I saaw here a topic about something simmilar: http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&p=46992&sid=054dd60ebaee8b4abdb6afe989b64b77 [sidefx.com]
and I changed the /etc/hosts file from something like:

127.0.0.1 localhost <your hostname>
to
127.0.0.1 localhost
<your real ip> <your hostname>

Then I uninstalled houdini and uninstalled the sesinetd service - when I was trying to install it again - the same problem appears

What shoul I do?

for the non commercial use, it's probably best to use local licensing instead of sesinetd. You can choose local licensing in one of the the installation steps.
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1283&Itemid=273 [sidefx.com]

As for the inability to stop the license server, perhaps the hserver is trying to connect to the invalid host (try hserver -l and make sure the host name matches your computer name).

Another reason maybe permissions. If sesinetd runs as root, you may need to run sesictrl as root as well.