I am having a bear of a time installing my copy of houdini on my new computer. I have upgraded hardware after almost 8 years. Ths is not to say I used Houdini for that long, however. The install process says “cannot connect to the license server.” I have no Idea how to feed it my keys and have the app run. Any help would be hot. If you need more details, please ask and I'll post asap.

OLD SPECS:
800Mhz Athlon T-bird
256MB PC-133Mhz SDRAM
40GB 5400rpm WD IDE HDD
12XCD-RW IDE Drive
Geforce2MX AGP4X Video card
Windows 2000

NEW SPECS
Dual AMD Quad-core 2346HE CPUs
16GB DDR2 667 SDRAM
2TB (4X500GB) WD SATA 3.0 7200 HDDs
ARECA ARC-1210 RAID controller card
nVIDIA 9800GX2/ 7800GT OC until I get the newest nVIDIA driver
TYAN Thunder S2927-E Motherboard
Xubuntu Linux 64-bit edition 7.10
22X DVD-RW SATA ODD

I'm pretty sure you can't run Houdini under Xfce. You'll need either KDE or Gnome unless I'm mistaken.

can you check if the sesinetd process is running? See this FAQ for more details: http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1209&Itemid=273#hserver [sidefx.com]

Also, you can send the diagnostic info to the apprentice@sidefx for more help with licensing. You can get the diagnostic in the License Manager (hkey [sidefx.com]) in the main menu under View > Diagnostic Info.

Oh.. wow you can use Xfce then. That is pretty cool. :shock:

I guess once you get it working, let us know how it goes. I've always wanted to try it out.

Hmmm Alan, then i must be dreaming everyday behind my computer… As far as i can tell it runs pretty smooth (in my dreams). Tried houdini on a lot of WM's and the only one that had issues was E17.

Alanw
I'm pretty sure you can't run Houdini under Xfce. You'll need either KDE or Gnome unless I'm mistaken.

I run it in Fluxbox sometimes and I didn't encounter problems (Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit).

Dragos

digitallysane

Alanw
I'm pretty sure you can't run Houdini under Xfce. You'll need either KDE or Gnome unless I'm mistaken.

I run it in Fluxbox sometimes and I didn't encounter problems (Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit).

Dragos

I may have to try that out. I really like the minimal look of the Fluxbox themes that I've seen so far.