Harsh Gajjar

icreateeffects

About Me

Supervisor - FX - MPC
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VFX Artist
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Film/TV

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Bangalore, India
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obj-image Intermediate
Render custom attributes as Cryptomatte with Mantra

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Houdini 19 doesn't load AT ALL on Ubuntu 21.10 2024年8月1日19:47

Hello Everyone,
This thread is really helpful to know that I had to install some of the dependency, which helped in my case with Ubuntu 24.04 and Houdini 20.0.547.

The Steps which helped me resolve the issues
sudo apt-get install libxkbcommon-x11, libxcb-icccm4, and libxcb-render-util
sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev

I also tried to run
export LD_PRELOAD="/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc_malloc_debug.so.0" houdini

I used this process to export jemalloc.
cd $HFS/dsolib
cp libjemalloc.so.1 empty_jemalloc/libjemalloc.so.1.orig
cp empty_jemalloc/libjemalloc.so.1 .

But I think, this doesn't make any difference, it gives this warning, and I disabled it from the ENV file.
WARNING: JE Malloc not configured.
         Excessive memory fragmentation and poor performance may result.
         If this is intentional, set
             HOUDINI_DISABLE_JEMALLOCTEST=1
         to remove this warning.

One more thing, I would like to add is, If you are using NVIDIA GPU then it might require to utilize NVIDIA's prime-render offload which opens your utility through discrete graphics card.

I usually put this commands into Houdini.env to utilize NVIDIA as my primary openGL and openCL Drivers(If it's CUDA Supported, you can check through hgpuinfo -c).

Houdini.env
#Disable Jemalloctest to avoid any excessive memory fragmentations
HOUDINI_DISABLE_JEMALLOCTEST=1

#NVIDIA Prime render offload properties
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia

Hope this will be helpful to someone who's facing crashes on Ubuntu 24.04 with Houdini 20.0.547 & 20.0.+

Cheers.