Hello All,

Anyone have any idea as to the steps to get Houdini of my system (Redhat 8.0)?

Also, I keep getting this error when running hkey

Diagnostic Output:
==================
If you are having licensing problems, please save this information and email it
to support@sidefx.com.

License Administrator output:
=============================
Generated on: Wed Oct 30 16:15:19 2002
Local host name: SGI-2.RenderFarm
Local server code: fa36e200
Local ip address: 97.115.32.39
License server name: SGI-2.RenderFarm
License server server code: fa36e200
Server ip address: (could not look up server)
License server is running: No
License Administrator version: 5.5.36
Http proxy host: (none)
Can retrieve http://license.sidefx.com/index.php: [license.sidefx.com] Yes

Installed licenses:
LicID Platform Product Ver Avail Expiry
—– ——– ——- — —– ——

sesictrl -i output:
===================
Cannot connect to server SGI-2.RenderFarm (80.107.255.191)- verify that sesinetd is running.



hserver -l output:
==================


licenses file:
==============
* Could not open the licenses file. *


Seems like my license server is not running and sesinetd is not running either.

Any help I can get would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Amro N.

Hi,
You don't need to do anything special to uninstall Houdini on Unix systems, just delete the directory it was installed into (/usr/hfs5.5 or wherever you installed it). The license tools are in /usr/lib/sesi and there is a script installed to /etc/init.d that you can delete or leave, it doesn't hurt anything to leave it.
In your diagnostic, there is no license server running, which means that you either didn't install the license tools (check in /usr/lib/sesi) or it's not starting for some reason. If it's not starting, try re-installing the license tools.
Please note that Redhat 8.0 is not yet certified for use with Houdini, we have had reports of problems.

Cheers,

Peter B

Thnks Peter for the tip.I still have to get used to the fact that I am not in Windows and I dont need to go to a control panel to remove programs. I finally got it working on Redhat 8.0 (after much stress and a very late night). So now its time to see how it performs in the long run.