Hey all, I've got a problem where Houdini's not launching. It was working before and now after i setup the environment and try to launch the program, it says “bash: houdini: command not found”. I'm running houdini on fc3 and still fairly new to linux. any suggestions?? thanks.

hey man

are u typing
“source houdini_setup_bash”

Everytime before u run houdini?

i just type it once so the environment is set. it's just today when i tried to launch it it was saying the command's not found.

try navigating to the folder the command is located in…then typing the command

lynch_ppl
try navigating to the folder the command is located in…then typing the command

tried that already and still a no go.

Are you launching houdini from the same shell that you previous did “source houdini_setup_bash” (from Houdini's install directory)?

edward
Are you launching houdini from the same shell that you previous did “source houdini_setup_bash” (from Houdini's install directory)?

yah i am. from the shell i initialize the environment and it initializes fine. so when i type in houdini, hhalo, hescape and such it says that it can't find the command.

Does typing “$HB/houdini” work? If you do “echo $HB” in the shell, what does it say? What about “echo $PATH” ?

edward
Does typing “$HB/houdini” work? If you do “echo $HB” in the shell, what does it say? What about “echo $PATH” ?

Hello, $HB/houdini doesn't work. echo $HB doesn't spit out anything.
echo $PATH gives this : /usr/kerberos/sbinusr/kerberos/binusr/local/sbinusr/local/binsbinbin:
/usr/sbinusr/binusr/X11R6/binroot/bin

It'll probably be helpful if we go through the exact steps.
Forgive me if this is very basic or if you"ve done this a thousand times.
If things fail at any point, just post back where they failed and what the error message was, if any.

1- Cd into the directory where you installed houdini:
Assuming you installed houdini-8.0.410 and it's in /opt/

cd /opt/hfs8.0.410/

2- Find out which shell you are using:

echo $SHELL

3- Source the houdini setup file
NOTE: In step 2, if the output is /bin/bash then you need to run:

source houdini_setup_bash


If the output of step 2 was either /bin/csh or /bin/tcsh, you need to run:

source houdini_setup

4-If you made it this far, houdini should be in your path. If you type:

echo $PATH

You should see some reference to houdini in that output.
You can even try:

echo $HB


If you made to step 4 without any errors, go ahead and try to run houdini. In the shell after completing step 4 type the folllowing in the shell:

houdini

Houdini should run. If nothing still happens then you need to make sure sesinetd is running. I believe on fc3 this is set to run on boot or something like that.

To verify if sesinetd is running, in the shell type the following:

ps -e | grep sesinetd

Something should be outputted back. If it's not then we need to start sesinetd.
I guess you can start it by issuing the folllowing command:

/etc/init.d/sesinetd start

I think, that's the command. :?

Hope this helps,

/Rick

Thanks Rick! This helped out a lot. This also resolved my issue of getting the hserver daemon to start.

I'm glad it was helpful.

Enjoy!

/Rick