Using Apprentice on XP for a few days now with 10.0.293 - 294. One problem that keeps coming up over and over is the help breaking on me.

This is the output.


Could not start help server: error: can't start new thread
exception: error
details: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module>
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.294/houdini/scripts/python\houdinihelp\__init__.py”, line 221, in startHelpServer
http = serve(app, None, port = cur_port, start_loop = False)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.294/houdini/scripts/pythonlibs\paste\httpserver.py”, line 1264, in serve
threadpool_options=threadpool_options)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.294/houdini/scripts/pythonlibs\paste\httpserver.py”, line 1118, in __init__
**threadpool_options)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.294/houdini/scripts/pythonlibs\paste\httpserver.py”, line 1024, in __init__
**threadpool_options)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.294/houdini/scripts/pythonlibs\paste\httpserver.py”, line 606, in __init__
self.add_worker_thread(message='Initial worker pool')
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.294/houdini/scripts/pythonlibs\paste\httpserver.py”, line 728, in add_worker_thread
worker.start()
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.294\python\lib\threading.py”, line 440, in start
_start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ())
error: can't start new thread




About half the time I can restart Houdini and kill the hbrowser process and it will work again. Other times it's simply broken and spits this out.

Thanks