Not sure whats going on, but anytime I try to open the Help Browser, Houdini freezes and a message appears saying “Waiting for localhost” Strange thing is though, if I use the help when clicking on a node, I get no trouble.
Any ideas?
Help Browser is locking up Houdini
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I left it for 30 mins once (when I went for dinner) but it hadn't resolved itself. If I first start Houdini and try, it seems to work ok. Then after I've been working for a bit, then I get the locking up. I've not had any trouble with the node method of opening the help though, regardless of how long I've been using the system.
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Hey All-
I am in 9.5.175 on Linux and houdini will hang with this problem consistently when the default web browser is already open. If you close the default browser, firefox on my system, and open houdini, *most* of the time your file will open fine.
Also, if you open with your file in “Manual” mode it will not hang most of the time.
Obviously, we can turn off opening the help browser at startup.
I am in 9.5.175 on Linux and houdini will hang with this problem consistently when the default web browser is already open. If you close the default browser, firefox on my system, and open houdini, *most* of the time your file will open fine.
Also, if you open with your file in “Manual” mode it will not hang most of the time.
Obviously, we can turn off opening the help browser at startup.
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I'm very dissapointed with the 9.5 help. It does look somewhat better and that's it. All the functionality is worse than in 9.1. The example list is a mess, the whole system is slow and crashy, everything feels very fragile. There are layout bugs (especially on Linux) and the general usability of the system is very very low.
The help system in 9.1 was becoming quite good. What is the reason for switching to this inferior architecture? The OSX port?
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The help system in 9.1 was becoming quite good. What is the reason for switching to this inferior architecture? The OSX port?
Dragos
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Try disabling any firewalls and/or antiviral software and blocks ports and see if that helps. I used to have Trendmicro PC-cillin on and Windows Firewall off, and Houdini 9.5 hanged while trying to get the doc server; disabling PC-cillin stopped the hanging.
I have the problem of the help browser locking up on windows 2 times out of 5 in all kinds of situations, launching in houdinis own help browser, starting with the system browser, system browser already running or not. No firewalls whatsoever running on the system, win xp 64. I love Houdini, but this is really as annoying as it gets.
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I've run 9.5.216 on both windows and linux and it has no problem with the help. There's not much SESI can do about issues with the old releases, best advice is to upgrade and deal with any problems there. Help has undergone a lot of fixes since your release, to say nothing of the rest of Houdini!
Cheers,
J.C.
Cheers,
J.C.
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I've run 9.5.216 on both windows and linux and it has no problem with the help. There's not much SESI can do about issues with the old releases, best advice is to upgrade and deal with any problems there. Help has undergone a lot of fixes since your release, to say nothing of the rest of Houdini!
Cheers,
J.C.
Will try, thanks!
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Thanks for the tip, I didnt know there was daily builds
now I have upgraded to 9.9.226 and the hanging problem in houdini seems to be solved, but I still have a problem in my browser (safari Version 3.1.2 (5525.20.1)) when i click the links in the help pages, the browser calls the local host, but it never receives the page?
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now I have upgraded to 9.9.226 and the hanging problem in houdini seems to be solved, but I still have a problem in my browser (safari Version 3.1.2 (5525.20.1)) when i click the links in the help pages, the browser calls the local host, but it never receives the page?
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Try adding the local computername in the hosts file, after the default entry of localhost, as in:
127.0.0.1 localhost mycomputername
save the file, and relaunch Houdini.
I got faster startup of the help server after doing so…
In Windows this file is located in
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
It can be edited in notepad or the likes…
Similar files, regarding name lookup exists in OSX and Linux as well…
Maybe a long shot, but…
127.0.0.1 localhost mycomputername
save the file, and relaunch Houdini.
I got faster startup of the help server after doing so…
In Windows this file is located in
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
It can be edited in notepad or the likes…
Similar files, regarding name lookup exists in OSX and Linux as well…
Maybe a long shot, but…
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