Hey guy's i am having issues with Houdini and Ubuntu.

CPU: AMD64 X2 4400+
GPU: NVIDIA Geforce 5800GT

and this is what i get: (both on Ubuntu and ubuntu64)
basically everything works only there are no icons.

Try renaming/deleting the contents of your $HOME/houdini9.1/config/Icons directory and restart - that should regenerate your icons.

Cheers,

J.C.

tanks for the answer J.C.

I did what you told me deleted icons folder and then rebooted but Houdini doesn't regenerate an new folder Icons.
Neither dos it show any icons in the interface.

it's strange because other programm's do, so i should just work.
Maybe it's the way my grhapic card antialias the Icon pictures ?

If i try and open the individual icons in Ubuntu i get a error report saying no suported format for .pic

,pic is native to houdini am i correct ?
Or might that be the source of the problem?
./houdini/houdini/config/Icons

In Ubuntu Preferences, turn off the fancy desktop effects.

thnx Probbins,
but yeah thats one of the first things i did and it doesn't seam to change anything.

it's weired because Houdini is the only application experiencing this,
And Houdini works fine, it's fast and reliable only,,,,, no icons >_* ?

also find it weired that no one else when i search with Google or on Sidefx website has this problem.

When you start houdini from the console does it spit out some (error-) messages?

ai yeah that gives some more info,

Warning: /home/tamis/houdini9.1/config/Icons/SVGIcons.cache.serial is not writeable


it just repeats that alot.

Issue resolved thanks to Pagefan (dank je wel man !!! super vet !)
Turned out that Houdini needs a folder /home/<user>/houdini9.1
only that folder had root access only, so it couldn't write to it.

Ermm…does that not answer your question? Permissions are pooched. Houdini's trying to write to that file(because it has to!), it can't, so it can't save the icons.

Note: there's been a bunch of posts in the last while about methodology wrt installing Houdini on Linux , and some of it is nuts. More often than not, Ubuntu seems to cause a lot of problems because the whole ‘no root account’ mentality seems to instill the notion that applications should be installed in home directories. Another reason I hate Ubuntu - in making things ‘easy’ it's mimicking Vista and tries to do away with the notion of a root account. Madness. Anyway, that's a big assumption on my part, might not be correct in this case, but the proper procedure should be:

Install Houdini as root(sudo houdini.install on Ubuntu). Install it in the default location, i.e. /opt/hfs9.1.xxx. Run Houdini as an end user, *not* root. Do *not* run houdini as ‘sudo houdini’. I suspect at some point you did that, and the houdini9.1 account in your $HOME is owned by root. *No* files or directories in your home directory should be owned by root.

Try deleting $HOME/houdini9.1 completely(you might have to use sudo to do this!), and see if what I suggest helps.

Cheers,

J.C.

[EDIT Simulpost! At least I got a rant in )

yeah i already gave myself access to houdini9.1 folder.
so it's all working now.

and yeah chose Ubuntu because I'm new to Linux.
Ubuntu serves as a launch platform.
In time i am going to try to move to a linux based operating system that will give me more power.

if you can recommend me a linux platform for the future please do.

i am also thinking of getting more memory like 8 gigs of ram to accommodate my needs I'm already running 64.(aaah the beauty of linux)

I don't think you'll get anymore “power” from another distro. Ubuntu has it's own way of doing things. That is for sure, but it isn't going to slow you down if you know what you're doing.

I install Houdini just as listed above. Install it in /opt/hfsx.x.xxx and never launch it as root. I also make /opt/hfsx.x.xxx readable + writable since unsaved scenes write data to that directory, and I tend to mess around a lot.

If you're concerned with performance there's a ton of guides on google for making Ubuntu run faster in many different regards.

8 gigs sounds pretty cool as well. I'm using 6 now, and it's definitely well worth it.

Hi Tamis,

great another Dutch speaking houdnik. That makes, uhm, four, no, five I think. I bet Sesi could launch some nice session here in Amsterdam now. Apart from being a very nice city it also has some nice “assets” which can't be found in the U.S. that easily, and it's all legal!


If you want to try a linux distro and you are still a newbie you could give Opensuse a try. It's a bit more normal than the weird sudo-security policy of ubuntu.

edit: toch maar ff omzetten naar het engels.

Cool dude, who are these Houdini users? are they from just odforce or did you actually meet them?

myself i know 3 you some other dude but he barley uses it, and then a colleague of mine.

never met them. As far as i can tell there is Ben Schrijvers, Kim Goosens (he's Belgian but hey, they were almost part of the Netherlands, too bad they formed a new government last night…), you, me, a guy in Leiden (sorry, forget your nick) and then i am missing one or two…

aah cool, yeah i know that guy from Leiden i added him on MSN but basically he told me he didn't do much with Houdini any more.
and i know ben.

i had the same thing with icons, now it's ok, i have icons but houdini work very slow and when i do anything in houdini ubuntu hangs on, after couple seconds ubuntu and houdni works very slow
ubuntu 64bit
houdini 9.5.192 64bit

can anybody help me?

sorry for my english

What graphics card are you using? Did you install the proper drivers for the card?

Cheers!
steven

I have proper drivers, nvidia drivers version 169.12
graphics card geforce 8600 GT

Is the ENV HOUDINI_GL_ENABLE_SHADER on?