Except for the Halo program, I've been able to load all of the Houdini Apprentice programs.

“Fatal error: Segmentation Fault

Saving application data to CDOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/Administrator.hip”

This is the directory:

Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp

01/12/2001 08:12p <DIR> .
01/12/2001 08:12p <DIR> ..
07/31/2002 08:00a <DIR> houdini6.1
07/31/2002 08:00a 0 Administrator.hip
07/31/2002 07:42a 49,204 ~DF2C8D.tmp
2 File(s) 49,204 bytes
3 Dir(s) 12,269,174,784 bytes free

Any ideas why only Halo would generate this error?

Well, I can't answer the question but I can add a similar problem; I've had houdini master do this to me several times. I can't say with any certainty exactly what I was doing in Houdini just before it happened. The only thing I can think of is not shutting down with the ‘exit’ or ‘close’ menu item. A lot of times I'll just click the ‘x’ to shut down the window. I thought it might also have been occuring after running a render op. I'll make sure to make specific notes next time it happens.

Hi there,

ashevillenorthcarolina
Except for the Halo program, I've been able to load all of the Houdini Apprentice programs.

“Fatal error: Segmentation Fault

Saving application data to CDOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/Administrator.hip”

This is the directory:

Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp

01/12/2001 08:12p <DIR> .
01/12/2001 08:12p <DIR> ..
07/31/2002 08:00a <DIR> houdini6.1
07/31/2002 08:00a 0 Administrator.hip
07/31/2002 07:42a 49,204 ~DF2C8D.tmp
2 File(s) 49,204 bytes
3 Dir(s) 12,269,174,784 bytes free

Any ideas why only Halo would generate this error?

Can you please provide addtional information, for example, the OS you're using (Win2000 or WinXP) and graphics card? Is it still giving you a Segmentation Fault now?

Thanks!

Cheers!
steven

stevenong
Can you please provide addtional information, for example, the OS you're using (Win2000 or WinXP) and graphics card? Is it still giving you a Segmentation Fault now?

Thanks!

Cheers!
steven

ViewSonic P225f on NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro with 16MB Ram (it's an old card never meant to do very much)
1024 x 768 resolution
Microsoft Windows 2000

Oddly enough, Halo is now loading w/o any problems. Go figure. Thank you for responding.

Hi there,

There was a problem with Halo starting for the first time and not finding some preference files, but upon quitting, those files will be created. So when you load Halo again, it should run okay which is what happened in your case.

Thanks for the additional information and your patience. I'll submit the above as a bug report so that it will be looked into.

Cheers!
steven

stevenong
Hi there,

There was a problem with Halo starting for the first time and not finding some preference files, but upon quitting, those files will be created. So when you load Halo again, it should run okay which is what happened in your case.

Thanks for the additional information and your patience. I'll submit the above as a bug report so that it will be looked into.

Cheers!
steven

I spoke too quickly … Halo crashed again.

reboot computer.
load Halo. no problem.
quit Halo.
load Master.
load Halo. no problem.
quit Halo.
quit Master.
load Halo. crash!

reboot computer
load Master.
load Halo. No problem.
quit Master. quit Halo.
load Halo. crash!

summary:

Once Master has run and exited, Halo cannot run until the computer is rebooted.