Has anyone been able to run houdini on 64 bit ubuntu. I have houdini installed, but it cannot connect to the licence server. I have tried restarting hserver, but to no avail.

hi, sometimes sesinetd doesnt get added to the proper run level scripts (on suse at least, dont recall with ubuntu) - so…

/etc/init.d/sesinetd start

does that help?

Mark2, thanks for the info. I found the sesinetd file in the sbin folder and started it which started the licence server, but the license server still does not allow modifications. which is necessary to install license keys. Any ideas? Is anyone using 64 bit Ubuntu for Houdini?

Make sure you're running it as root. Otherwise, verify that it's pointing at that machine as the server, and not some other bogus one.

Cheers,

J.C.

That did the trick. Thanks for the help.

mkorangestripe
That did the trick. Thanks for the help.

Now that you have it running what do you think?

I can't comment yet, but I will after I make some rendering comparisons. To make a general comment though the procedural chain of nodes is great and enjoyable to step others through the process with.

Hey, could you please comment a bit on how does it run on Ubuntu 64? As I am planning to install it and run Houdini 64 too. Do you experience any issues?

Thanks.

Houdini seems to run fine on Ubuntu 64bit. I would prefer to use Redhat 64 bit though.