Houdini Launcher was working just fine until I upgraded it to 19.0.561. Now, I cannot install any version of Hqueue client or server. See the log below. Can anyone help me out with this. I have tried to do a clean install and cannot get it to work.

Houdini Launcher 19.0.561 (MSVC 19.29.30136.0)
Command: "C:\\Program Files\\Side Effects Software\\Launcher\\19.0.561\\bin\\houdini_installer.exe" "install" "HQueue Server" "--version" "19.0.561" "--platform" "win64-vc142" "--build-option" "py2" "--installdir" "C:/HQueueServer" "--strict" "--accept-EULA" "SideFX-2021-10-13" "--share-name" "hq" "--service-name" "HQueueServer" "--shared-folder-mount" "H:\\" "--shared-dir" "" "--session-id" "pca081rojhk3wn7h6i4zh48u8dcsm8g7"
Preparing to install
Error while processing installation options: Error reading JSON file /protected-installer-downloads/Houdini19.0/houdini-py2-19.0.561-win64-vc142/overview.json/: illegal value

johnlanius79
Houdini Launcher was working just fine until I upgraded it to 19.0.561. Now, I cannot install any version of Hqueue client or server. See the log below. Can anyone help me out with this. I have tried to do a clean install and cannot get it to work.

Houdini Launcher 19.0.561 (MSVC 19.29.30136.0)
Command: "C:\\Program Files\\Side Effects Software\\Launcher\\19.0.561\\bin\\houdini_installer.exe" "install" "HQueue Server" "--version" "19.0.561" "--platform" "win64-vc142" "--build-option" "py2" "--installdir" "C:/HQueueServer" "--strict" "--accept-EULA" "SideFX-2021-10-13" "--share-name" "hq" "--service-name" "HQueueServer" "--shared-folder-mount" "H:\\" "--shared-dir" "" "--session-id" "pca081rojhk3wn7h6i4zh48u8dcsm8g7"
Preparing to install
Error while processing installation options: Error reading JSON file /protected-installer-downloads/Houdini19.0/houdini-py2-19.0.561-win64-vc142/overview.json/: illegal value

I've seen this before, it usually means the provider is down in some way. Try again later, it will probably be back online after some maintenance.

I also am getting weird errors when I try and download the offline version of the Houdini Launcher directly from sidefx's website. I did see that they posted about doing some maintenance today, but that was supposed to be done by 10:30 am edt. Maybe things are still under maintenance. Is anyone else having this issue?

I`m getting errors related to qt when trying to launch rhel in rocky linux.

Your issue however might be related to sidefx going in to maintanence mode yesterday.
this affects more then just the website (as the license manager also stops working)

Issue persists, I cant get any version of the launcher to install any version of houdini on Rocky