Hi!

I installed the gold version of Houdini 9.5 on my MacbookPro 10.5.4.
I still have the problem that when I try to render something, even very simple, it takes a LOT of time for mplay to start, and then usually nothing happens.
Also, when trying to apply a texture to an object all I get is constant pink (in the rare times when the render ‘succeeds’). The texture is there and the path is correct.
And last thing, Houdini takes a lot of time to launch. Way more then on xp x64. It also often doesn't start at all, until I try to launch it from the command line tools.

Thanks.

I am sorry for reviving this thread, but am I the only one with these problems? I cannot render anything with this version….

Wierd - what graphics card do you have? Do you get any error message in your console?

I have a Mackbook Pro, with GeForce 8600.
I don't think the problem is with the rendering itself. The problem is with spawning new processes.
A programmer here told me it might be a bug with a call to the fork() service, and he will try to solve it.
Maybe its the same now.

Thanks.

i've a lot of problem too, my config is iMac ans Nvidia 8800GS on 10.5.3 so i think the Nvidiadrivers are not good now.
i'm waiting for an update.

But i can't use Houdini now.

cheers

Here are two things that either of you can do to help me track down this issue (we haven't been seeing this problem).

For the slow/unreliable launch time.
- open /Applications/Utilities/Console.app
- select “All Messages” near the top of the left column
- launch Houdini
- look for any errors or warnings that look related and post them here

Also, you can do the following:
- open /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app
- launch Houdini
- find the “houdini” process in Activity Monitor
- select the process and click on “Sample Process” in the tool bar
- save the resulting data and upload it to the forum here

I think one customer reported the pink texture issue. We weren't able to reproduce it and the issue disappeared for the customer. Are you able to post the image that you are using as a texture, and/or a hip file?

some problem gone some appears.

It seems that i was using Escape instead of Master. i've opened both at the same type to see what happens.

I've fixed my autorisations after installing houdini, maybe it helped.

but i've some message like that when my mac seems to crash but no it is very slow (messsage from the console) :

29/07/08 01:07:38 mantra mantra(430,0x7fff701dfdc0) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x80000f0e0, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.

29/07/08 01:07:38 .com.sidefx.Houdini mantra(430,0x7fff701dfdc0) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x80000f0e0, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.

29/07/08 01:12:37 .com.sidefx.HoudiniEscape hescape(469,0x7fff701dfdc0) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x8000d9900, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.

Could it be a mac section for Houdini on the forum?

cheers

it seems to crash whe i activate the tab render view after succeeding a render with render node and start render command.
just after that when i hit the render view tab it crash :

29/07/08 01:30:32 houdini houdini(126,0x7fff701dfdc0) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x8000d7c40, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.

29/07/08 01:30:32 .com.sidefx.Houdini houdini(126,0x7fff701dfdc0) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x8000d7c40, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.

29/07/08 01:30:48 /usr/sbin/spindump process 126 is being monitored
29/07/08 01:30:57 /usr/sbin/spindump process 126 is being no longer being monitored

29/07/08 01:31:57 mantra mantra(144,0x7fff701dfdc0) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x80000f0e0, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.

29/07/08 01:31:57 .com.sidefx.Houdini mantra(144,0x7fff701dfdc0) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x80000f0e0, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.

29/07/08 01:31:58 .com.sidefx.Houdini WARNING: The -background flag is not supported on OS X. Ignoring it…
29/07/08 01:31:58 mplay mplay(147,0x7fff701dfdc0) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x800026520, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.

29/07/08 01:31:58 .com.sidefx.Houdini mplay(147,0x7fff701dfdc0) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x800026520, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.

29/07/08 01:32:09 kernel NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception! status = 0xffff info32 = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error

29/07/08 01:33:06 kernel npvhash=4095

some sample :

Sampling process 129 for 1 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols…
Analysis of sampling houdini (pid 129) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
412 Thread_2503
412 start
412 main
412 -
412 -
412 _DPSNextEvent
412 AEProcessAppleEvent
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412 -
412 -
412 -
412 -
412 -
412 _CFXNotificationPostNotification
412 _nsnote_callback
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412 -
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412 ReceiveNextEventCommon
412 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode
412 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
372 mach_msg
372 mach_msg_trap
372 mach_msg_trap
39 __NSFireTimer
39 -
32 UI_Queue::drainEvents(bool, bool)
32 UI_Queue::drain()
32 UI_Queue::processNextEvent()
32 IPR_ViewerManager::tick(UI_Event*)
32 IPR_ViewerManager::rerender()
32 OPUI_App::setStatus(char const*, …)
32 UI_Feel::redraw(UI_RedrawType)
32 UI_Feel::redrawDirtyMe(UI_RedrawType)
31 gldFinish
31 gldUpdateDispatch
31 io_connect_map_memory_into_task
31 mach_msg
31 mach_msg_trap
31 mach_msg_trap
1 UI_Feel::setContext(RE_Render*, short*, short*)
1 UI_Feel::setContext(RE_Render*, short*, short*)
1 UI_Feel::setContext(RE_Render*, short*, short*)
1 UI_Feel::setContext(RE_Render*, short*, short*)
1 OSX_Window::setContext(RE_Render*, short*, short*)
1 -
1 -
1 -
1 -
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1 pthread_getspecific
1 pthread_getspecific
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4 UI_Queue::waitForEvents()
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3 OSX_GeneratorThread::runSynchronousCode()
3 OSX_GeneratorThread::processRawEvent(UI_DeviceEvent*)
3 OSX_GeneratorThread::collectRawEvents()
3 -
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2 mach_msg_trap
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1 -
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1 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode
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1 GetWindowProperty
1 GetWindowData(OpaqueWindowPtr*)
1 HIObject::IsRefValid(void*)
1 GetHIObjectRefTable()
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412 thread_start
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412 auto_collection_thread(void*)
404 __semwait_signal
404 __semwait_signal
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8 Auto::MemoryScanner::scan_pending_until_done()
7 Auto::MemoryScanner::scan_for_unmarked_blocks(Auto:ubzone*, unsigned long, void*)
6 Auto::MemoryScanner::scan_object_range(Auto::Range&)
5 Auto::MemoryScanner::scan_range(Auto::Range const&, Auto::WriteBarrier*)
4 Auto::MemoryScanner::scan_range(Auto::Range const&, Auto::WriteBarrier*)
1 Auto::MemoryScanner::check_block(void**, void*)
1 Auto::Zone::set_pending(void*)
1 Auto::Zone::set_pending(void*)
1 Auto::MemoryScanner::scan_object_range(Auto::Range&)
1 Auto::MemoryScanner::scan_range(Auto::Range const&, Auto::WriteBarrier*)
1 Auto::MemoryScanner::scan_range(Auto::Range const&, Auto::WriteBarrier*)
1 Auto::MemoryScanner::scan_range(Auto::Range const&, Auto::WriteBarrier*)
1 Auto::MemoryScanner::scan_range(Auto::Range const&, Auto::WriteBarrier*)
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412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyThread_acquire_lock
412 __semwait_signal
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412 PyMethod_New
412 PyObject_Call
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412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
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412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyThread_acquire_lock
412 __semwait_signal
412 __semwait_signal
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412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
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412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
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412 __semwait_signal
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412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords
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412 PyMethod_New
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyThread_acquire_lock
412 __semwait_signal
412 __semwait_signal
412 Thread_2d03
412 thread_start
412 _pthread_start
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyMethod_New
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyThread_acquire_lock
412 __semwait_signal
412 __semwait_signal
412 Thread_2e03
412 thread_start
412 _pthread_start
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyMethod_New
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyThread_acquire_lock
412 __semwait_signal
412 __semwait_signal
412 Thread_2f03
412 thread_start
412 _pthread_start
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyMethod_New
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyThread_acquire_lock
412 __semwait_signal
412 __semwait_signal
412 Thread_3003
412 thread_start
412 _pthread_start
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyMethod_New
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyThread_acquire_lock
412 __semwait_signal
412 __semwait_signal
412 Thread_3103
412 thread_start
412 _pthread_start
412 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
412 PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyMethod_New
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyMethod_New
412 PyObject_Call
412 PyFunction_SetClosure
412 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
412 init_socket
412 select$DARWIN_EXTSN
412 select$DARWIN_EXTSN
412 Thread_3203
412 thread_start
412 _pthread_start
412 glvmDoWork
412 __semwait_signal
412 __semwait_signal
412 Thread_3303
412 thread_start
412 _pthread_start
412 UT_Thread::threadWrapper(void*)
412 audioProcess(void*)
412 AU_SoundUtil::tick()
412 UTnap(long)
412 usleep
412 __semwait_signal
412 __semwait_signal
412 Thread_3403
412 thread_start
412 _pthread_start
412 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*)
412 HALRunLoop::OwnThread(void*)
412 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
412 mach_msg
412 mach_msg_trap
412 mach_msg_trap

Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
57 PyEval_EvalFrameEx
43 PyEval_EvalCodeEx
35 PyObject_Call
23 PyFunction_SetClosure
21 _PyObject_GC_UnTrack
15 _pthread_start
15 thread_start
13 __semwait_signal
12 PyMethod_New
11 PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords
10 PyThread_acquire_lock

Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
__semwait_signal 5348
mach_msg_trap 817
select$DARWIN_EXTSN 412
Auto::MemoryScanner::scan_range(Auto::Range const&, Auto::WriteBarrier*) 6
Sample analysis of process 129 written to file /dev/stdout

some message from my console again :

in zip format from a text clipping

For example, i start Houdini, (by the way it opens always safari for the help page) and if i click on the render view tab viewport without doing anything else, after a few moment it “freezes” (something like that because it becomes very slow, and i must wait some minute to get control of the computer) :

my config : iMac 3.06 C2D 4Go Nvidia 8800GS 512Mo os X 10.5.4

regards

P.S: hopefully houdini didn't make my mac crash, i've just waited for minutes and houdini seems to wake up see console log.

Sorry for my exotic english

message from the console

i've just installed the free version of apprentice on a Mac Pro quad core 3Ghz XEON with Nvidia 8800 GT and none of the problem from the iMac appears.

@pht

From you console logs, this seems to be the most important line

29/07/08 08:57:48 kernel NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception! status = 0xffff info32 = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error

It definitely looks like the NVidia driver is crashing. There are a couple of errors in the log that do belong to us that I can look into, but I think that this is likely the problem. Houdini should not be able to crash the driver.

I have not heard of this driver crash before, but the NVidia iMacs are relatively new. We do not have one here for testing.

As for the hang, it may be help server related. The main thread appears to be doing exactly what it should be in your log. It is very strange… I will ask if there's a way to disable the help server, so that we can test that theory.

Thanks for your reply.

Maybe it's just the drivers from the 8800 GS because like i said no problem with the 8800 GT from my office computer.

It's something related with the render view viewport. Because when i ask to start a render with the menu, there is no problem to get the rendering done and displayed in the Mplay image viewer.

Here is another sample from the console while Houdini and my computer became impossible to use, i've just waited till it wakes up.

hope you will find something.

Best regards

i've dl the 182 build and found about the same problem when clicking on the render view tab to get the viewport, here is the message from the console :


31/07/08 00:16:57 .com.sidefx.Houdini Debug at: http://localhost:48626/_debug/view/1217456204 [localhost]
31/07/08 00:17:09 kernel NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception! status = 0xffff info32 = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
31/07/08 00:17:26 kernel 0000000c
31/07/08 00:17:26 kernel 00100000 00008297 0000047c 00000000
31/07/08 00:17:26 kernel 00000486 00001458 0001ec01 00000003
31/07/08 00:17:26 kernel 00000000 00000000 00000000
31/07/08 00:17:26 kernel 0000000c
31/07/08 00:17:26 kernel 00100000 00008297 0000047c 00000000
31/07/08 00:17:26 kernel 00000486 00001458 0001ec01 00000003
31/07/08 00:17:26 kernel 00000000 00000000 00000000
31/07/08 00:17:38 kernel NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel timeout!
31/07/08 00:17:38 /usr/sbin/spindump process 363 is being monitored
31/07/08 00:17:50 kernel NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel timeout!
31/07/08 00:17:50 kernel NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception! status = 0xffff info32 = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
31/07/08 00:18:07 kernel 0000000c
31/07/08 00:18:07 kernel 00200000 00008297 0000047c 00000000
31/07/08 00:18:07 kernel 00000486 00001968 00000011 00000003
31/07/08 00:18:07 kernel 00000000 00000000 00000611
31/07/08 00:18:07 kernel 0000000c
31/07/08 00:18:07 kernel 00200000 00008297 0000047c 00000000
31/07/08 00:18:07 kernel 00000486 00001968 00000011 00000003
31/07/08 00:18:07 kernel 00000000 00000000 00000611
31/07/08 00:18:19 kernel NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel timeout!
31/07/08 00:18:19 /usr/sbin/spindump process 363 is being no longer being monitored
31/07/08 00:18:31 kernel NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel timeout!

Last login: Sat Aug 2 06:55:07 on ttys000
cd /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources;source houdini_setup
Macintosh:~ theovandernoot$ cd /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources;source houdini_setup
The Houdini 9.5.185 environment has been initialized.
Macintosh:Resources theovandernoot$ houdini
Macintosh:Resources theovandernoot$ dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.185/Resources/hsvg/hsvg-real

searching the web, it seems to be related to the Nvidia driver, not really Houdini.

Hi,
sorry for not answering. I was away the last week. Ill have some time for the experiments you asked in the weekend.

Thanks.

This is what I get when trying to render a textured quad. The messages appears after about 3 minutes, and 1 minue after that mplay is opened but nothing is rendered in it. (The texture is visible in the viewport).

8/8/08 9:14:01 PM mantra mantra(428,0x7fff70796dc0) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x80000f400, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.
8/8/08 9:14:01 PM .com.sidefx.Houdini mantra(428,0x7fff70796dc0) malloc: reference count underflow for 0x80000f400, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.
8/8/08 9:14:02 PM .com.sidefx.Houdini WARNING: The -background flag is not supported on OS X. Ignoring it…
8/8/08 9:15:01 PM .com.sidefx.Houdini mantra: Could not open imager

And here I sampled Houdini as I waited for it to launch:

Sampling process 477 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols…
Analysis of sampling houdini (pid 477) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
1856 Thread_2503
1856 start
1856 main
1856 SI_SplashScreen:pen(char const*, char const*)
1856 SI_SplashScreen:penOSX(char const*)
1856 SI_SplashScreen::getRaster(char const*, int&, int&, int&)
1856 IMG_File:pen(char const*, IMG_FileParms const*, IMG_Format const*)
1856 IMG_Format::findFormat(char const*, IMG_Stat const*, bool)
1856 IMG_Format::getNFormats()
1856 IMG_Format::installBasics()
1856 IMG_FilePic::registerFormat()
1856 initializeOptions()
1856 UTgethostname(char*, int)
1856 +
1856 getnameinfo
1856 LI_DSLookupQuery
1856 libinfoDSmig_Query
1856 mach_msg
1856 mach_msg_trap
1856 mach_msg_trap
1856 Thread_2603
1856 thread_start
1856 _pthread_start
1856 auto_collection_thread(void*)
1856 __semwait_signal
1856 __semwait_signal

Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):

Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
__semwait_signal 1856
mach_msg_trap 1856
Sample analysis of process 477 written to file /dev/stdout