Hi,

I'm evaluating Houdini 15.5 under Linux and it looks like there is a problem with the middle mouse button in number fields.
It's jumping all over the place, between nan values and randomly keyframing the fields; it's just not working. Can you suggest a fix or a distribution that is known to work well with Houdini ?

I'm right now under Mint 18.1 on a Z820 workstation.

I'm on Mint 17.? and it's been fine.
can you post a bug report
https://www.sidefx.com/bugs/submit/ [sidefx.com]

and attach the file made by doing Help > About Houdini > Show Details > Save

thanks

arctor
I'm on Mint 17.? and it's been fine.
can you post a bug report
https://www.sidefx.com/bugs/submit/ [sidefx.com]

and attach the file made by doing Help > About Houdini > Show Details > Save

thanks

So I installed CentOS,7 and the latest nvidia drivers; the middle mouse button problem is gone, but still Houdini is not usable. I have nesting errors / stack errors thrown on stderr; when I create a camera, as soon as I move it, the xform inside the camera becomes broken. It's complaining about stack errors in /near and //aperture

Creating FEM from a cube stops at 24% of the tetrahedralize step all the time. Mantra returns immediately (obviously when the camera is broken), even if I try to render a ortho perspective view.
On the bright side, I'm able to load a file created on the same machine under Windows and move the camera I'm kinda able to use it, but definitely not to render.

Is there an alternate version of Houdini that i could download, or something else that I could try to debug those problems ? Most probably the problem lies outside of Houdini. The same hardware runs Houdini for Windows with no problems. It's a HP Z820 with a 2xE5-2670, 64 GB of RAM and a Nvidia 980 Ti graphics card.


EDIT..

So the problems were caused by the LC_ALL variable.

Somehow, houdini15.5/config/Dialogs/15.5.717/VIS/vis_marker.dialog.ui ended up with something like:

RANGE(001,00001e-5, 1) around line 114. I looks like it was generated that way because of the locale, but then it can't be read back because the coma has two meanings..


Changing it back to a machine parsable format and setting LC_ALL system wide to en_US.UTF-8 solve all the problems I had.

glad it's working out for you.
can you post a bug about the LC_ALL variable.
https://www.sidefx.com/bugs/submit/ [sidefx.com]