bert.vanbrande

Hi,

We have a person at our company using Houdini 19.5 on a Centos 7.6 computer and every so often opening Houdini he gets the error:

The Houdini 19.5.435 environment has been initialized.
License server is already set to lic1.
The Houdini 19.5.435 environment has been initialized.
Set Houdin Server: lic1
run: /net/software/houdini/hfs19.5.435/bin/houdini
☠️ Mon Feb 27 10:07 $ user.person ~> ~ 👉 00:00:00 374MB | log started Mon Feb 27 10:07:10 2023
00:00:00 374MB | Arnold 7.1.4.1 linux x86_64 clang-10.0.1 oiio-2.4.1 osl-1.12.0 vdb-7.1.1 adlsdk-7.4.2.47 clmhub-3.1.1.43 rlm-14.2.5 optix-6.6.0 2022/11/29 11:24:49
00:00:00 374MB | running on box213.stellarcreative.lab, pid=64876
00:00:00 374MB | 1 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2265 CPU @ 3.50GHz (12 cores, 24 logical) with 64142MB
00:00:00 374MB | NVIDIA driver version 515.65 (Optix 60803)
00:00:00 374MB | GPU 0: NVIDIA RTX A4500 @ 1650MHz (compute 8.6) with 20186MB (16705MB available) (NVLink:0)
00:00:00 374MB | CentOS Linux 7 (Core), Linux kernel 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64
00:00:00 374MB | soft limit for open files changed from 1024 to 4094
00:00:00 374MB |
00:00:00 389MB | default ocio.config found in /net/software/autodesk/htoa/htoa-6.1.4.1_rc2f7eb9_houdini-19.5.435.py37/htoa-6.1.4.1_rc2f7eb9_houdini-19.5.435.py37/dso/../scripts/bin/../ocio/configs/arnold/config.ocio
00:00:00 389MB | loading plugins from /net/software/autodesk/htoa/htoa-6.1.4.1_rc2f7eb9_houdini-19.5.435.py37/htoa-6.1.4.1_rc2f7eb9_houdini-19.5.435.py37/dso/../scripts/bin/../plugins ...
00:00:00 389MB | htoa_mandelbulb_proc.so: mandelbulb uses Arnold 7.1.4.1
00:00:00 389MB | alembic_proc.so: alembic uses Arnold 7.1.4.1
00:00:00 395MB | usd_proc.so: usd uses Arnold 7.1.4.1
00:00:00 395MB | cryptomatte.so: cryptomatte uses Arnold 7.1.4.1
00:00:00 395MB | cryptomatte.so: cryptomatte_filter uses Arnold 7.1.4.1
00:00:00 395MB | cryptomatte.so: cryptomatte_manifest_driver uses Arnold 7.1.4.1
00:00:00 395MB | loaded 6 plugins from 4 lib(s) in 0:00.26
00:00:00 427MB | Begin registration ...
00:00:00 419MB | Registering procedurals ...
00:00:00 419MB | procedural registration done.
00:00:00 435MB | Registering operators ...
00:00:00 437MB | operator registration done.
00:00:01 443MB | Registering shaders ...
00:00:01 445MB | shader registration done.
00:00:01 445MB | Registering imagers ...
00:00:01 445MB | imager registration done.
00:00:01 445MB | USD shader translation registration
00:00:02 491MB | End registration.
00:00:02 491MB |
00:00:02 491MB | releasing resources
00:00:02 491MB | Arnold shutdown
libai.so already loaded
Warning: /home/user.person/houdini19.5/config/Icons/SVGIcons.cache.serial is not readable
Warning: /home/user.person/houdini19.5/config/Icons/SVGIcons.cache.serial is not readable
Warning: /home/user.person/houdini19.5/config/Icons/SVGIcons.cache.serial is not readable
Warning: /home/user.person/houdini19.5/config/Icons/SVGIcons.cache.serial is not readable
Warning: /home/user.person/houdini19.5/config/Icons/SVGIcons.cache.serial is not readable
Warning: /home/user.person/houdini19.5/config/Icons/SVGIcons.cache.serial is not readable
64876: Fatal error: Segmentation fault (sent by pid 0)
Crash log saved to /tmp/houdini_temp/crash.untitled.user.person_64876_log.txt
sh: xmessage: command not found

In order to get everything working again he has to reboot the computer and it works again. Any ideas what could be causing this ?

Here is his description on what he is doing:

I do have an issue that start to became recurrent , there is not pattern in the occurrence so I can’t give you timeline of when it happens , but already happened 3 time last week and 1 time this morning, I do have a fix ( rebooting) but I would like to know what make it happen or potentially flag it to you so that you aware.

When I am launching Houdini most of the time after lengthy simulation go through ,(not always) seems I am able to launch a session(sometimes) but it will appears like this image > see image:

And give me error in terminal svgsicons not readable, but most of the times it just error(same error ) in the terminal and warning me that Houdini has crashed, at this moment my only solution is to restart the machine and everything come back to normal .