Hi everyone!
Few days ago I've installed Houdini 15.0.347 (production build, apprentice license) on a my newly purchased custom built workstation. Everything went okay. Installation smoothly finished without any warning. However one little thing is blocking me from further exploration and that's the Point VOP node which on my system (ubuntu 15.10) simply doesn't work. Never. Not even in the fresh completely blank file.

Right as I plug in the geometry data, boom, it goes down with error (please see attached picture)

Moreover the funny thing is when I save the “corrupted” point vop to a separate file and open it on mac osx, it works. So it's definitely something wrong with my system, or maybe with linux gcc compiler? (The version I have is 4.9)

Anyway I wonder, has anyone here ever encountered an issue like this before? Or maybe someone here has at least clue of what's going on, since I positively don't

Still no answer yet?

I've got similar problem with my laptop on Ubuntu 14.04 and last Houdini 15. I saw this type of error with different SOPs. Looks like Hou can't find a proper OTL description or something…
Maybe there's some problem with Environment vars or permissions… Don't know yet… But will be very appreciated if somebody can help us with some information about how to settle this problem.

Thanks guys!

Regards,
Dmitry

Hi Dmitry,
As I already explained on odforce here:
http://forums.odforce.net/topic/25121-point-vop-error-on-ubuntu/#entry146611 [forums.odforce.net]

Putting
LC_ALL = C

into your houdini.env file will solve it. Seems there is something wrong with Qt integration under linux systems.

Regards,
Pavel

Hi Pavel,

Thank you very much! Your solution helped me too… No errors now. Now my problem solved! Thanks!

Regards,
Dmitry