So then whats the whole 'Segmentation fault' thing,I mean I know it has something to do with memory allocation,is there some kind of log or something I can post so someone can deduce my problem?You could use the GNU debugger to see where it crashes: maya -d gdbEnter run on the gdb command line to start maya. When it crashes, you might be able to use the backtrace command bt to see what went wrong.

Sep 12, 2012. Hi again, So.it's almost a year to the day when you last helped me with my machine. Something about August?! I ran into a problem this morning that alarmed me and I wanted to seek your sage advice. I checked some email this morning successfully. I didn't open anything, just deleted and swept the usual. Feb 26, 2009. Copy the aw.dat and awkeygen.exe file to this directory. Install Maya. Goto start-->all programs-->Autodesk-->common utilities-->FlexLM license utilities. Under system settings copy Ethernet address. Open the file (from the directory FLEXLM) aw.dat with Wordpad and replace the words 'your host'.

This might give some hint where to look. Of course you might want to try to install the i386-version of Maya if the above doesn't help. ^^^^^^^thanks for the advice,heres what I got: Starting program: /usr/aw/maya7.0/bin/maya.bin [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread - (LWP 9943)] [New Thread - (LWP 9948)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. Yes, that error is related to the license file. I got the same error before i had checked the license file properly.

I did that and now it works.Thanks for this hint! I only need to fix the 'Error: Failed trying to load font: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-' error.:)You should check your xorg.conf file: considering fonts, i've encountered a problem with fonts (it gave me a problem with hud in viewports making damaging them), i had the fonts installed but maya still gave me the missing helvetica error, it turned out that i had my xorg.conf made by ati driver installer and it had font paths mixed up - i've fixed that and everything works fine now - no font missing error nor bad viewports (ubuntu 5.10).

I had more trouble installing maya. I used two different copies of the rpms and both of them had errors when alien tried to install them. Then I got another copy, but when I was trying to transfer them from the cd they had IO errors, but they seemed to be the same size so I went ahead and used alien on them and they worked. After installing maya would start up and complain about how the temporary directory '/usr/tmp' wasn't accessible and how the maya couldn't create the directory, but it started anyway.

Then, if I try to do anything in maya like click on any buttons or anything everything will freeze up and the only thing I can do is move the mouse and I have to hard reboot. The keyboard does not respond or anything. I had music playing once and the song finished and then the music did not continue on to the next song. After it froze once I tried adding the /tmp/usr/ directory and made it read/write for my user account, but it didn't help. Edit: I just realised that one of the copies had errors because it was on a FAT file system.

Apparently alien doesn't like FAT filesystems. Good thing to note. Crack should has 'install.txt' file. If he doesn't: WINDOWS: -------- 1.

First Create a directory on the c: drive (even if you install maya on different drive) called FLEXLM 2. Copy the aw.dat and awkeygen.exe file to this directory. Install Maya 4. Goto start-->all programs-->AliasWavefront-->common utilities-->FlexLM license utilities 5. Under system settings copy Ethernet address 6.

Open the file (from the directory FLEXLM) aw.dat with Wordpad and replace the words 'your host' with the copied Ethernet address. Save and close wordpad 7. Using the run utility and type: awkeygen.exe aw.dat 8.

Goto start-->all programs-->AliasWavefront-->common utilities-->Install license 10. Under the path of the file aw.dat 11. Click install 12. Restart computer LINUX: ------ Start at Step 3. Your license (default) dir is /var/flexlm so copy the generated aw.dat (you did that on a windows machine in dos) into that directory.

Ok I converted all the rpm's to debs but then I get this when trying to dpkg maya License installation failed A detailed license installation report may be found at: /tmp/alias_rpt_1wprCl There may be a more recent license for this workstation available on the Alias web site. Please visit the following URL to check for updated licenses: this is what the /tmp/alias. File has in it. License Installation Report Installing from license file /usr/aw/maya/license_data/prekey.dat.

Input license contains 0 license(s) matching this computer. End of license installation report. Anyone know what this means and how I can fix this? Hi all:KS i just got Maya7 working on ubuntu:p anyways, it seems to work, but when i try to render it doesn't render anything,](*,) any suggestions?:confused: A default light has been created, modify defaultRenderGlobals.enableDefaultLight to change this behavior.

Automatic near/far clipping values: 36.6003, 40.1247. Starting Rendering /home/jason/maya/projects/default/images/tmp/untitled.iff. Constructing shading groups. Rendering current frame. Frame triangle count: 760 ==================================== Resource Usage At End Of Frame ==================================== 1 Page faults 164.500 Mb Peak total size(Estimated) 37.938 Mb Peak arena size ==================================== 66.957 Mb Heap 0.125 Mb Transforms 30.078 Mb MEL 0.007 Mb Render Geometry Arena 0.750 Mb NURBS AG 0.312 Mb Data Blocks 6.672 Mb Render Cache ==================================== Postprocessing rendering result. Time For Tessellation (hh:mm:ss): 00:00:00 Time For Shadow Map (hh:mm:ss): 00:00:00 Time For Post Process (hh:mm:ss): 00:00:00 Time For Frame Render (hh:mm:ss): 00:00:00 Finished Rendering /home/jason/maya/projects/default/images/tmp/untitled.iff. Got maya 7 working on 5.10 in no time!

Thanks a lot. Coming from windows, I'm wondering if there is any way to make maya look a little better, like having menus and text that looks and acts more like a gnome program, cause by default it looks like linux 8 years ago:( Also, tapping the spacebar seems to work only sometimes when trying to go from full view to four view in the panels. Another thing is that X mouse pointer. It not that bad to have it for some tools in maya, but why doesn't it goes back to the normal mouse pointer outside of Maya?

Hey, so far I've got maya up and running in ubuntu. Just a few problems though: * The cursor turns into the default 'X' all the time, often permanently. This happens only in gnome though, and not KDE.

Is there a way to just use default X11 cursors and disable the gnome way? This is the biggest problem I have at the moment. * Mental Ray just crashes the program when used. No idea on how to fix this one. * I hate motif widgets!

I hope they change to Qt/Gtk in the next version! Fair enough this one is a gripe:) It would be great if these problems can be solved as I am in a maya course at the moment and will be living and breathing in this program, and I don't want to use windows or suse/fedora. I was hoping dapper solved the cursor issue but it still does it. Hey, so far I've got maya up and running in ubuntu. Just a few problems though: * The cursor turns into the default 'X' all the time, often permanently. This happens only in gnome though, and not KDE. Is there a way to just use default X11 cursors and disable the gnome way?

This is the biggest problem I have at the moment. * Mental Ray just crashes the program when used. No idea on how to fix this one. * I hate motif widgets! I hope they change to Qt/Gtk in the next version! Fair enough this one is a gripe:) It would be great if these problems can be solved as I am in a maya course at the moment and will be living and breathing in this program, and I don't want to use windows or suse/fedora. I was hoping dapper solved the cursor issue but it still does it.

-MistaED mentalray is a problem and yes, that X corser is a problem, Mybe now they are woned by autodesk they will have more funds to create a better linux port, however, Autodesk has close ties with M$, so not sure where that will lead too. I wouldn't be duscussing keygens and cracks in here for maya. I found an awesome solution for the mouse arrow always turning into the default X, you've got to run: export MAYA_MMSET_DEFAULT_XCURSOR=1 before starting maya in the terminal, then the cursor shouldn't revert to X under maya (for an example, click the shelf-tab button to add/remove/modify shelves without that export, then try it again with the export option). Now, I want to ask how can I just make a script for this, or have the maya in my gnome menu doing this everytime I run it. I've tried a basic bash script with export MAYA_MMSET_DEFAULT_XCURSOR=1 & maya but it never seems to work, and I also put it into my $HOME/.bashrc which works with gnome SUSE, but not for dapper.

Can anyone tell me a way to fix this? I Hope this helps, oh and mental ray works fine now for me, odd.

I think I just made the whole /usr/aw directory chmod -R 777 or something. That should solve some permission problems people have been having (there's probably a more secure number config but this just worked for me and I'm the only one using this computer anyway).

Hi guys, Great guide. I have followed it and have installed (or at least believe so, being a newbie) maya 7 on dapper.

Though it does not seem to start properly. I get the following error: Warning: Color name 'black' is not defined and then something called a 'script editor' starts. You can see a screenshot of it EDIT: ok, got it fixed. It was a bug. It seems that a file called rgb.txt is missing or mislocated Creating a symbolic link to where the file seems to be physically residing solved the problem for me. See below: sudo ln -s /etc/X11/rgb.txt /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt You can find further info on this issue in this thread: Thanks again for an understandable guide.

I'm having a problem similar to the above poster, but I'm not getting any warnings. I installed Maya as per the instructions on page 1.

When I run it (as any user), the splash screen comes up, and then it loads the script editor, but I don't get the main Maya window. The script editor's output is this: // Error: File not found: newLayerSelected.xpm // // mental ray for Maya 7.0 // mental ray for Maya: using startup file /aw/maya7.0/mentalray/maya.rayrc // mental ray for Maya: setup // mental ray for Maya: initialize // mental ray for Maya: using 1 license // mental ray for Maya: register extensions // mental ray Node Factory: loaded // parsing /aw/maya7.0/mentalray/include/base.mi // generating Maya nodes. // parsing /aw/maya7.0/mentalray/include/contour.mi // generating Maya nodes. // parsing /aw/maya7.0/mentalray/include/paint.mi // generating Maya nodes.

// parsing /aw/maya7.0/mentalray/include/physics.mi // generating Maya nodes. // parsing /aw/maya7.0/mentalray/include/subsurface.mi // generating Maya nodes. // mental ray for Maya: successfully registered // MayaLive version 7.0.1// Error: Object not found: // updateRendererUI; // Error: Object not found: mainRenderMenu // // Error: Object not found: // All of the 'object not found' messages bother me a bit, but I have no idea what objects it's looking for. Has anyone else had this issue?

Note: I'm using X.org 7.0 modular, with nvidia driver version 87.62. I have turned off composite. Any help would be appreciated. UPDATE: Well, I figured out the problem.

Apparently when I'd let nvidia change my xorg.conf file, it hosed all of my font paths. So, if you're ever in this same boat, make sure your font paths are set. I wouldn't be duscussing keygens and cracks in here for maya. I found an awesome solution for the mouse arrow always turning into the default X, you've got to run: export MAYA_MMSET_DEFAULT_XCURSOR=1 before starting maya in the terminal, then the cursor shouldn't revert to X under maya (for an example, click the shelf-tab button to add/remove/modify shelves without that export, then try it again with the export option). Now, I want to ask how can I just make a script for this, or have the maya in my gnome menu doing this everytime I run it. I've tried a basic bash script with export MAYA_MMSET_DEFAULT_XCURSOR=1 & maya but it never seems to work, and I also put it into my $HOME/.bashrc which works with gnome SUSE, but not for dapper.

Can anyone tell me a way to fix this? I Hope this helps, oh and mental ray works fine now for me, odd. I think I just made the whole /usr/aw directory chmod -R 777 or something. That should solve some permission problems people have been having (there's probably a more secure number config but this just worked for me and I'm the only one using this computer anyway). The setting works great! If you want to add it to a menu, do this instead: export MAYA_MMSET_DEFAULT_XCURSOR=1; maya I did this in fluxbox and it worked, but other menu systems should work the same way. Hope this helps!

I've installe Maya 7.01 on Dapper and everything seems to work ok apart from the sound. When I loaded a wave file, Maya said that it couldn't load libaudiofile.so, with a quick search and by linking libaudiofile.so to libaudiofile.so.1 I fixed this error. When I load a maya file already including audio, it dosn't complain and the name showup by RMB on the timeline ->sound, but the sound dosn't show on the timeline itself and no sound gets played when I playback the animation or scrub.

When I start af new scene and try to import the soundfile it dosn't show wave files, so there is no way of importing them then. I guess it could be some wave support for maya that I havn't installed yet, but it plays flawlessly in all other players I have installed. Anyone who have any idea how this could be sorted out?

It's quite important that I get this to work as I usually animate to music and I would hate to be forced to use windows:( Thanks in advance. Hi folks i´m trying to install maya 7.0 on ubuntu 6.06 but it doesn´t work.

Converting of files went fine installing of the following files awcommon-server_9.5-2_i386.deb awcommon_9.5-2_i386.deb went fine too but when i try to install maya7-0_7.0-375_i386.deb i get the following message: nobody@nowhere:~/MayaL$ sudo dpkg -i maya7-0_7.0-375_i386.deb (Reading database. 110023 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace maya7-0 7.0-375 (using maya7-0_7.0-375_i386.deb). /var/lib/dpkg/info/maya7-0.prerm: line 8: test: upgrade: integer expression expected Unpacking replacement maya7-0.

Setting up maya7-0 (7.0-375). License installation failed A detailed license installation report may be found at: /tmp/alias_rpt_Mk8YFB There may be a more recent license for this workstation available on the Alias web site. Please visit the following URL to check for updated licenses: can anybody help me?

Hello, i have some experience using maya on linux, the last time i installed it on ubuntu 6.06 and kubuntu 6.06 (my GF). It works fine, like what i call 'fine' on linux. -on KDE maya has a conflict with Klipper, so it must be closed, else maya could crash while switching viewports; -on Gnome, about that cursor problem, it is enough to add the line: MAYA_MMSET_DEFAULT_XCURSOR=1 in the /home/user/maya/7.0/Maya.env file; about the installation: -be sure to have csh or tchs installed before installing maya (maya uses csh shell language scripts); -i installed it with alien directly (alien -c -i *.rpm) or just converted it (alien -c -d *.rpm) and installed the debs normally.

Has anyone managed to get a wacom tablet working with maya? I found a post on Highend3d (suggesting that changing the mode for the tablet in xorg from 'absolute' to 'relative' would make maya detect the tablet properly.

Unfortunately that doesn't appear to work for me since the pressure options in the artisan based tools are still grayed out, although the tablet is now working in relative mode. The wacom tablet is an Intuos3, and works fine in the GIMP and other apps. Hi, so im following the instructions below, but no.7 looks like a typo to me?:( Can anyone tell me what its meant to say? Im not sure what it means, I dont even know how to use the run utility in this case!! Thx all xxxx WINDOWS: -------- 1. First Create a directory on the c: drive (even if you install maya on different drive) called FLEXLM 2. Copy the aw.dat and awkeygen.exe file to this directory.

Install Maya 4. Goto start-->all programs-->AliasWavefront-->common utilities-->FlexLM license utilities 5. Under system settings copy Ethernet address 6. Open the file (from the directory FLEXLM) aw.dat with Wordpad and replace the words 'your host' with the copied Ethernet address.

Save and close wordpad 7. Using the run utility and type: awkeygen.exe aw.dat 8. Goto start-->all programs-->AliasWavefront-->common utilities-->Install license 10. Under the path of the file aw.dat 11. Click install 12.

Restart computer. Hi all, its my first post in this community.! I'm new ubuntu user, and I'm trying to install Maya on my laptop. Well, i think i installed it correctly, but when I launch it from terminal typing 'maya' i get: bash: maya: command not found So i type './maya.bin' and it seem to start. But it isn't so. I get a little window, empty, called 'MayaStartupWnd' and a little black square. If I click the bar i see in the window, the window shut down and so i'm at the starting point.

Anyone can help me? Had a look into the font issue, and it might be possible to make the fonts look a bit better (although the windows will look the same), by changing the maya scheme.

Here's what the manual has to say: (Linux) Changing system font display settings You cannot edit the font display in Maya Linux using the system font settings. Workaround You can edit the MayaScheme file in /usr/aw/maya/app-defaults/ to modify the additional X resources used by Maya to change the system font display settings.

This file is searched in the following location order: $HOME/app-defaults/MayaScheme /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/MayaScheme $MAYA_LOCATION/app-defaults/MayaScheme To list available fonts, use the xlsfonts command. Alternatively, you can use the xfontsel command to generate a font string. See also “Using the MayaScheme file to set fonts, font sizes, and colors” in the Linux chapter of the Installation and Licensing guide. The file appears to be located in /usr/aw/maya8.0/app-default/MayaScheme so I guess that's the one that should be changed.

I'm not sure how fonts work but at the moment the entery in the MayaScheme file looks like this: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 I'm really not sure what all the * marks are for and am unsure how to go about changing it, particularly since the fonts listed by the xlsfonts command are listed like this: -urw-nimbus mono l-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 Could someone point me in this right direction on this? It'd be really good to get maya to use some nice fonts.

Had a quick play with it. It still ain't pretty, but a lot better than is was before. Basically what you want to do is: 1) Backup the original file: sudo cp /usr/aw/maya8.0/app-defaults/MayaScheme /usr/aw/maya8.0/app-defaults/MayaScheme.back 2) Open the font selector tool: xfontsel 3) Open the MayaScheme files: gksudo gedit /usr/aw/maya8.0/app-defaults/MayaScheme 4) Look at the MayaScheme file and the xfontsel windows and generate the code for the fonts that you want to use and paste them into the MayaScheme file. That's all there is to it.

Can be kinda fiddly since some fonts don't support some functions and certainly none of the fonts are pretty. I've attached a screenshot and my MayaScheme file. If anyone comes up with better looking fonts could they post their MayaScheme file.

[I added.zip to the MayaScheme file, since I couldn'y upload it as it was. Just get rid of the extention.]. Ok, I had to reinstall this with a fresh install of edgy and there were some complications. First, I was getting an error about libXm.so.2. You need the 32bit version of it if you're running 64bit. The file is in the lesstif2 package.

Open the package with the archive manager and extract out libXm.so.2 and 2.0.1 into /usr/lib32/. You probably already have 64bit versions in /usr/lib, but apparently they don't work for some function in installKey. For those of you having problems with the license install, you need to run /aw/COM/bin/getid to get the host address (ethernet address) of the machine you're trying to install this on, copy that address in the aw.dat file, take the aw.dat file to a windows box (or dos), then run 'aw_keygen aw.dat' from the prompt which will change the series of #s preceeding the host id. Copy this file into /var/flexlm/ on your linux box and maya should work.

There's a link in the forums to fix the fonts so they're not as horrible, but I can't remember exactly where. I actually do switch from beryl to metacity when I run maya.

Besides the spacebar locking up thing you noticed, I also get transparency on the time slider and some of the windows (like the render window). I run maya fullscreen so I don't really need cool transparency for my window frames. I do find the lack of Alt-Tab annoying. I did encounter another oddity recently. I don't get an option for high quality rendering on the shading panel.

Obviously, I can render stuff in HQ, but I can't view it in the panel in HQ. I have no idea where to even begin looking for that one. Google wasn't very helpful, nor was Maya help.

Thanks for reply on maya & beryl. I'm hoping that sometime beryl and maya will actually work properly togther.

It's certainly got a lot better than it used to be with compiz (which was pretty much load maya and watch it crash:) Getting the high quality shading should be straightforward: 1) Make sure the viewport is in shaded mode (press 5 on the viewport or go shading->smooth shade all). 2) In the viewport menu go renderer->high quality rendering 3) To turn textures on go shading->hardware texturing This applies to maya 8.0. Seems autodesk felt like moving some of the options around just to confuse people:) You can also enable shadows and stuff should you want to by turning on lighting ->use all lights and then going lighting->shadows. Which is nice in theory but will most likely cause your graphics card to keel over if the scene is at all complex. Do you have GCC installed? Yes I do, but when I typed the following command gcc -v I got the following result Using built-in specs. Target: i486-linux-gnu Configured with:./src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5) From what I can tell, my GCC is older than the one needed by Maya?

I tried to get a newer version by doing: sudo apt-get install gcc But the answer was that I already had the newest package. What would you suggest? Please remember that I'm very new to linux so please 'speak slowly':) Thank you very much for your help, HEMOglobina. I managed to install maya 7 and it seems to work just fine. I fixed the cursor problem with your given suggestions, but there is still one big problem: mental ray doesnt work at all.

I corrected the first line of the maya.rayrc file to have only one '/', but that did't help. When i switch the render globals to mental ray and the hit 'render current frame', maya just closes down.

I also have to say, that i'm a complete newbie to linux, so i would appreciate any ideas you might have to solve this problem. I have an interesting problem. I have maya 8 installed and working.

It is an odd error. Basically, I cannot open up my synaptic package monitor or update anymore, because the awcommon_10.80-13_i386.deb file, which was converted just fine with alien, seems to have a problem. It will not install correctly, and I can't remove it without re installing it (or so the package manager tells me). When I try to re install it with dpkg it spits this out: Ubuntu:~/Desktop/maya_convert$ sudo dpkg -i awcommon_10.80-13_i386.deb (Reading database.

117677 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace awcommon 10.80-13 (using awcommon_10.80-13_i386.deb). Unpacking replacement awcommon. /usr/bin/test: invalid integer `upgrade' exit: 26: Illegal number: -0 dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead. /usr/bin/test: invalid integer `failed-upgrade' exit: 26: Illegal number: -0 dpkg: error processing awcommon_10.80-13_i386.deb (--install): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 /usr/bin/test: invalid integer `abort-upgrade' exit: 26: Illegal number: -0 dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: awcommon_10.80-13_i386.deb any thoughts or suggestions on how to get this silly thing working correctly or fix the file? It doesn't spit out any errors when it creates the DEB so im not really sure whats going on.

Thanks in advance. Ahh, the problem was because of my font settings, here is my MayaScheme file that works perfectly and looks good.

Did anybody notice a reproducable crash in maya when one uses the hotkey 'w'? Holding this button and clicking the left mouse button gives one a marking menu with the transformation axis, global, local etc.

The same with the rotate and scale tool. So using this marking menu and releasing the keyboard before one releases the mouse button, produceses a crash. First i blamed all on ubuntu, installed fedora, - the same bug. Then i thought it must be the crappy ati drivers. Well.the same on ubuntu/nvidia.

The next thing i hate is that switching a viewport to fullscreen with the spacebar. On an ati this works, lets say 50 to 50. On a nvidia 90 to 10, besides the cheap nvidia 5200 can display the menu much faster than a firegl x1. Maybe someone of you have insight to this. Tempo500, Nvdia do supports on Linux so it works better than ATI. I think that ATI video boards are really better than Nvidia, but as I am a Linux user, I would buy a Nvidia board.:-D I've tried to use W key + LMB and it worked just fine here.

I'm using Maya 7 running on an Ubuntu Dapper (6.06) with Fluxbox 1.0 rc2. Probably it is a problem of yours video card. 8) I'm having problem using Mental Ray of Maya Software Render. I dont Know what happens but the log tells me that the Erro::-? ------------------------------------------- maya encountered a fatal error Signal: 11 (Unknown Signal) ------------------------------------------- I've found some people that ad the same Error but there is no solution for it, if you do know an answare, plz help me!:confused: Best Regards! I can confirm that the w+LMB does indeed crash maya, although this is on Debain not Ubuntu. I guess it might be common to all versions of linux if it also happens in Fedora.

Looks like it must be a bug with maya 8.0. (For what it's worth my graphics card is a GeForce 7900) Tauil: From what I've read Signal 11 is just a catch all error message: it doesn't indicate that something specific has gone wrong, just that something has gone wrong making the programme crash. Do you get any related errors in the script editor when maya boots up?

When exactly does it occur? Interresting that the w+lmb works on maya7. Mental ray works just fine with maya 8.

Dont know anything about signal11.sorry. I recently installed the latest ati drivers and used the aticonfig wich has a few options for the xorg.conf file. The maya profile is interresting + the opengl overlays.

Just my gnome-profile wont start with opengl-overlays on. So it seems that i am running a workstation card with video overlay planes. Wasnt that the reason that i got myself a firegl?:-k anyway. I should get a new computer this week. Its not going to be an ati. Jujoje, Check out my full error report trying to render my scene on Linux: tauil@tux:~$ export MAYA_DEBUG_ENABLE_CRASH_REPORTING=1 tauil@tux:~$ Render /media/hda5/maya/projects/default/scenes/_Freela_Fabio/caixaAtash/caixaRenderFinal.mb Starting '/usr/aw/maya7.0/bin/maya' File read in 1 seconds.

FEATURE MayaUnltd sgiawd 8.000 permanent uncounted XXXXXXXXXXXX HOSTID=XXXXXXXXXXXX obviously I removed my info, but basic aw.dat file. To get the right host ID: open up a terminal cd to aw/COM/bin type./lmhostid press enter. It'll spit out the host id that maya/linux want and away you go. Cheers m8 I wish that were the case but everytime I run that command or getid I get this lmutil - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. And/or Macrovision Corporation.

All Rights Reserved. The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is ' There have been acouple of people here with the same issue and yet no fix. Is there something we are doing wrong? Someone said that thir should be execute rights on the folder and file, can they elaborate. I you mean execute rights on the aw,dat file, then that won't o any good cause flexlm itself doesn't seem to be reading a hostid. I didn't have this problem at all in Dapper. I tried to install Maya8.5-x64 on my system (an AMD Quad Opetron running Edgy 6.10) following the procedure suggested here and I get the following error message: apcw: error while loading shared libraries: Like other users in this thread, despite diligently following the instructions and installing csh, typing 'maya' would not load the application.

I figured out that this is because the symbolic links in /usr/bin were pointing to /autodesk/maya8.5-x64/bin/ (fckeck, maya, imgcvt, Render) whereas the installer placed the autodesk directory under /usr/autodesk. On Autodesk's site (it says: Maya 8.54 was compiled using gcc 4.0.2. On a RHEL 4 system. Gcc 4.0.2 source code is available from The options to build the gcc 4.0.2. Compiler used for Maya are: gcc402 -v Using built-in specs.

Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with:./gcc-4.0.2/configure --prefix=/opt/gcc402 --program-suffix=402 --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-languages=c,c++ Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.2 Plugin developers should use the same configuration. Why in the world, then, is libstdc++.so.6 looking for gcc 4.2.0?

Edgy's version of gcc on my machine is 4.1.2 so I should be covered for the above compile, no? My problem has me buffaloed - Maya 8.0 - Installs just fine as per the 7.0 instructions, but when I run it, the machine locks up, still have cursor movement, but that is it. So I tried it on my wife's machine. Works fine, no problems.

My machine is a a dual PIII with 1gb ram and ATI FireGl T2 video card. (Using the fglrx drivers out of synaptic) Running Edgy. Wife's machine is an amd 64bit machine but running 32 bit Ubuntu. 512Mb ram Nvidia graphics card. I originally had Maya 6.0, which ran under Dapper with no issues. So out of curiosity, I tried installing 6.0 under edgy on this box. Same issue, machine locks up, except I have cursor movement.

Running any version of maya, I get the problem that floating subwindows (outliner, hypergraph, etc) are incorrectly handled and loose focus, whenever you click on the main maya window. Also, minimizing maya does not minimize maya's subwindows.

This looks as maya's subwindows are being created incorrectly and not as child of the main maya window. I know that there is an obscure fix for this in the.Xresources/.Xdefaults file (due to having worked at a company that had settings that fixed this), but I don't know what it is.

Does anyone know? For the Signal 11 problem: Had the same problem with Debian Etch after upgrading some packages for the latest version of Beryl.

For me it seems as though it was caused by /usr/lib/libGL.so pointing to /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa. I removed that symlink and made a new one pointing /usr/lib/libGL.so to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.8776. Then Maya started ok again. You can see the command issued below.

For problem with libstdc and GCC, I deleted the symlink libstdc++.so.6 ->libstdc++.so.6.0.8 and replaced it with libstdc++.so.6 ->libstdc++.so.6.0.7 This made the libstdc/GCC error go away for me. I found the libstdc++.so.6.0.7 on my Ubuntu machine in the lib directory and copied it over to my Debian Etch box.

This works amazingly, although I often have to remake the symlink after rebooting. 3dimensia- after install Maya 8.5, synaptic package manager was throwing an error regarding the awcommon package, saying it had to be removed but couldn't find the package.

Obvisously, synaptic is very important so I had to fix it. Water Board Iphone Download more. Your recommendation worked perfectly.

I used sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/status to open the file in root mode. Then I removed the section about the awcommon package and saved the file (ctrl+o). Then I re-installed the awcommon_10.80-14_i386.deb (which I aliened from the rpm) and this time the installation worked perfectly and I can use the Maya help again!! Thanks for the advice, it really saved my ***.:). Anyone else have an issue where pressing space a number of times in quick succession crashes maya 7.0? This is easy to do by accident since sometimes maya does not respond when pressing space to switch between views.

Wonder if there's anything to be done about it. Have you got beryl or compiz enabled? With either of these pressing space will cause ubuntu to hard crash, although it should work fine if you disable desktop-effects compiz temporarily. If your not using them I'm not sure what could be causing it.

On a related note has anyone found a workaround for the crash that occurs when you hold down one of the transform keys (qwer) to bring up the local/world transform menu? I found this also caused ubuntu to hard crash even without have desktop acceleration on (or installed). Seems like it's a bug with Maya since the same thing happens in SUSE 10.2, Fedora and Debian. Thanks for the tutorial. Got Maya 8.5 working in Feisty just fine. A few things that confused me that I will reiterate for anyone else in a similar situation: - When installing the first package in the tutorial with dpkg you can safely IGNORE the chkconfig warning.

- To get camera movement working properly you must change the default 'move window' hotkey in Ubuntu from ALT to something else. This is in System->Preferences->Windows. Then you must RESTART maya if it is already running. This one got me for a minute. - In addition to the 'sudo ln -s /usr/aw /aw' before installing, also run 'sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk /autodesk' [update: apparently this is a necessary step, thanks dagooze!] - You might have to make a directory in your /usr called 'tmp'.

Then do a 'sudo chmod 777 /usr/tmp' This allows all read and write permissions to this directory, and will stop maya complaining about writing a log file when it starts. - When making a new launcher for maya, in order to get it to let me pick the Maya icon (in the /desktop directory of your maya install) I had to copy the icon file to /usr/share/pixmaps.

At first I thought maybe it was a file type issue, so I used GIMP to convert it to a.xpm, but it should work as the default png file. Hi guys, I also encountered some refresh errors in Maya 8.5.

My errors were the following: - when starting Maya 8.5 the screen elements didnt show up - when scrolling in the Attribute editor menu, all the fonts got messed up because of refresh draw error - also the swatches in the Attrib editor ->refresh draw error I was really dissapointed and almost gave up. Wanted to return to Maya on Windows when I found this site They write that you have to do these steps to get Maya running: I solved this with an option in xorg.conf I put my relevant config here (I don't remember exactly what option was) Section 'Screen'. Option 'AddARGBGLXVisuals' 'True' Option 'DisableGLXRootClipping' 'True' Option 'DamageEvents' 'True' Option 'RenderAccel' 'on' Option 'NvAGP' '1' Option 'XAANoOffscreenPixmaps' Hope this Info helps some of you guys:popcorn.

Ok I did this tutorial as well. I'm running Kubuntu 7.04. I'm getting some errors mike@mike:~/Desktop/linux$ sudo dpkg -i maya_8.5-112_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package maya. (Reading database. 90104 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking maya (from maya_8.5-112_i386.deb).

Setting up maya (8.5-112). I'm getting these errors with maya8.5, does any one know how to fix this? Please help:~/Desktop/maya85$ sudo dpkg -i maya_8.5-112_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package maya. (Reading database. 122542 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking maya (from maya_8.5-112_i386.deb).

Setting up maya (8.5-112). Hey mayamaniac, It looks like your directories were created.

I'm new to ubuntu, but it might be that you need to set your tmp directory with proper permissions Rslogix 5000 V20 Crackers more. . Did you try and execute the maya file with csh? I had those errors, but was able to execute it anyway. If it doesn't work, it might be permissions on your /tmp folder aren't open ( even though you ran it with sudo ). Zombie Academy said: - You might have to make a directory in your /usr called 'tmp'. Then do a 'sudo chmod 777 /usr/tmp' This allows all read and write permissions to this directory, and will stop maya complaining about writing a log file when it starts..

I'm still getting the error with Maya 8.5::~/Desktop/maya85$ sudo dpkg -i maya_8.5-112_i386.deb Password: (Reading database. 138854 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace maya 8.5-112 (using maya_8.5-112_i386.deb). Test: 45: upgrade: bad number Unpacking replacement maya.

Setting up maya (8.5-112). Befor, i had install the maya8.5, it can use but not steady, often quit automatic itself. So i anstall maya7 without uninstall maya8.5, then not successful, so i use 'sudo rm -r ' to remove the directory of maya7. And now, when i open the update manager.

It tips -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Password:Could not initialize the package information A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information. Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message: 'E:The package awcommon needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- and in termial --------------------------------------------------------- sudo apt-get check Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done E: The package awcommon needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- and then i reinstall ------------------------------------- sudo dpkg -i awcommon_10.80-2_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package awcommon. (Reading database. 151303 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace awcommon 10.80-2 (using awcommon_10.80-2_i386.deb).

Unpacking replacement awcommon. Test: 7: upgrade: bad number exit: 8: Illegal number: -0 dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead. Test: 7: failed-upgrade: bad number exit: 8: Illegal number: -0 dpkg: error processing awcommon_10.80-2_i386.deb (--install): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 test: 7: abort-upgrade: bad number exit: 8: Illegal number: -0 dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: awcommon_10.80-2_i386.deb -------------------------------------------------- I do not kown how to fix the problem. I found hard to uninstall the deb software, PS: i can't found maya8.5 in Synptic package manager.

Anybody can tell me what happen and how to fix? Try sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/awcommon.postrmand then remove / reinstall the awcommon package.

Thanks very much, szr4321, you reply is useful. But now when open then update manage, it tips: ------------------------------------------------------------- Software index is broken It is impossible to install or remove any software.

Please use the package manager 'Synaptic' or run 'sudo apt-get install -f' in a terminal to fix this issue at first. ------------------------------------------------------------------ so I try 'sudo apt-get install -f ' ------------------------------------------------ sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. /var/lib/dpkg/info/aksusbd-suse.postinst: 35: insserv: not found.: 13: Can't open /etc/rc.status dpkg: error processing aksusbd-suse (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: aksusbd-suse E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Usually you don't need to install the aksusbd-suse package at all, it's for SuSE Linux distributions. Unfortunately the removal script doesn't work on Ubuntu, because the insserv application isn't there. So, try sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/aksusbd-suse.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/aksusbd-suse.postrm And then run sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get install -f i can install maya7 again now?

You should first make sure that no packages are broken anymore. Then only install the three packages given in the HowTo. Usually you don't need to install the aksusbd-suse package at all, it's for SuSE Linux distributions.

Unfortunately the removal script doesn't work on Ubuntu, because the insserv application isn't there. So, try sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/aksusbd-suse.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/aksusbd-suse.postrm And then run sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get install -f You should first make sure that no packages are broken anymore. Then only install the three packages given in the HowTo. I had in stall maya 7.0, and it run well after i edit the xorg.conf, but some time when i click the button 'render current frame', the maya quit it self without any alarm or tips. Did you start Maya from the console?

If yes, are there any error displayed after Maya quits? Did you try to render using mental ray?

Not from console, I creat a desktop file in applications menu, point to the [/usr/aw/maya/bin/Maya7.0], it is ok. I use mental ray, but i don't think it is the cause; for it also have same problem when only use maya software render. However i found the way: not click the render current frame, just select the area and click the render region; it will always ok. But i also want to kown the problem and solution. And thks again szr4321.

Not from console, I creat a desktop file in applications menu, point to the [/usr/aw/maya/bin/Maya7.0], it is ok. I asked because Maya sometimes displays error messages on the console when it quits because of an error. You won't see these if you start Maya using a desktop link. But i also want to kown the problem and solution. Maya creates the log file maya/mayaLog in your home directory.

Maybe you can find some hints there. Finally, you should install the Maya 7.01 update (if you haven't already. Hello, I've been trying to install Maya 64 on a fresh installation of Ubuntu Feisty 64 without success. I've read this thread over and over and it seems there's no problem to my solution (this has been posted by some around pages 8 to 16 I think). First I was having problems like this: $./findkey./findkey: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Then, doing this linking like some suggested: sudo ln -sf /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/aw/COM/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/aw/COM/lib/libstdc++.so.5 Got me to this error (mentioned before): $./findkey./findkey: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 The aw.dat is on /var/flexlm, with permissions set, etc etc.

I don't know if it's really necessary to run findkey and/or installkey, nobody mentioned it here. Anyway trying to run maya I get: $ maya apcw: error while loading shared libraries: libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So I made: $ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 /usr/autodesk/maya/lib/libXrender.so.1 Then I get: $ maya apcw: error while loading shared libraries: libXrender.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 And yes, I installed 64 bit version of Maya. From the Italian forum (and Wiki, (they say you need i386 versions of libraries libXp.so.6 libuuid.so.1 libfam.so.0. So I downloaded them from and placed on /usr/autodesk/maya/lib. Still the same. So I look for i386 version of libXrender, place it on /usr/autodesk/maya/lib and have: $ maya apcw: error while loading shared libraries: libXrandr.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory But I'm not in the mood to get ALL i386 version of maya libs to run the 64 bit version.

Something is wrong, but I have no idea of what. Would anyone have any light?

Install worked as a charm for me on my Ubuntu Feisty system with Maya 8.5. Only problem was with that old dusty graphics card in that system (Radeon 9600). This gave me some crappy graphics. But even that was quickly fixed by disabling the composite option in xorg.conf: Section 'Extensions' Option 'Composite' 'Disable' EndSection and adding a GARTsize option under my device section in xorg.conf: Option 'GARTSize' '64' This option gets rid of the GARTSize allocation error with older ATI cards. I also upgraded my X.org to 7.2 as described in for better 3d performance And all of the wacky graphics are gone. I am now getting rid of window$:)).

I just installed maya 8.5 sp1. With add composite disable to xorg.conf. I got some maya disaply problems fixed. However, in Hypershade, while I creat a node by MMB drag from create bar into workarea, the system seems to freeze for about a while like a minute before it is shown in the workarea same problem happens when connecting a node's attribut to other node in workarea. But they works fine when I drag n drop a node into attribute editor for connection.

Would any body know why is this happen?? I am running feisty with gefore 8600gt and the driver form nvidia site.

I am new to linux and ubuntn, and Thanks for help in advanced. I had lots of gnome keyboard shortcut that is conflicting with maya, and I dont feel like to reassign the shortcut in either maya or gnome. Is there any way that I could do those?? Like when maya get started, I could temporary disable all gnome keyboard shortcut, and restore it when I exit maya. Or, I could put maya into a gnome desktop workspace, then in that workspace, all the gnome keyboard shortcut is disable. Or, disable gnome shortcut just for maya window, or something that detects mouse hover point to do the temporary disable. Maya looks in the following paths for postscript fonts: /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 Just link some fonts to any of this locations and the TextCurve tool shoud work.

Could you please elaborate? I'm having this problem and haven't found a way to solve it. Some thread at autodesk (only one on the entire web to take on the subject) suggest the same solution, but it's very vague.

I tried copying all my fonts from fonts:/// to the specified paths, but to no avail, so my guess is I MUST create some symlinks. Only question is how do I do that? Thanks a lot in advance. EDIT: Original thread at autodesk: Check last two posts. They seem to give the solution, but they're not very specific, could someone please elaborate a little bit more into this?

When I try to install awcommon it only get half-installed. This is the error message i get when installing awcommon xxxx@xxxx-desktop:~/maya rpm$ sudo dpkg -i awcommon_10.80-13_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package awcommon. (Reading database. 116386 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking awcommon (from awcommon_10.80-13_i386.deb). Setting up awcommon (10.80-13). Cd: 13: can't cd to /aw/COM/bin cd: 14: can't cd to /aw/COM/bin cd: 15: can't cd to /aw/COM/bin cd: 16: can't cd to /aw/COM/bin cd: 17: can't cd to /aw/COM/bin cd: 18: can't cd to /aw/COM/bin cd: 19: can't cd to /aw/COM/bin cd: 20: can't cd to /aw/COM/bin cd: 21: can't cd to /aw/COM/lib cd: 22: can't cd to /aw/COM/lib cd: 26: can't cd to /aw. Though I have another error when installing awcommon-server that may have something to do with the previous error martin@martin-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg -i awcommon-server_10.80-13_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package awcommon-server.

(Reading database. 116588 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking awcommon-server (from awcommon-server_10.80-13_i386.deb). Setting up awcommon-server (10.80-13). Cp: cannot stat `/aw/COM/etc/aw_flexlm': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/etc/init.d/aw_flexlm': No such file or directory Warning: Unable to locate the chkconfig utility!

This is required to add or remove the License Server as an automatically started system daemon. You can manually set this up or run the utility that came with you linux distribution. The thing with chkconfig I know i don't have to care about but what's up with the cp: cannot stat stuff?

I'm a beginner with ubuntu and linux on the whole so I don't really understand all those error messages yet. Yes, thats what i meant, hmmh. Did you make sure that you have that chkconfig utility? Thats the only thing i can think of right now, but will try to come up with more ideas;) btw. I my self too have 8.0 installed, and i didnt get those errors. So, its really hard to guess whats wrong. I guess it must be some packages you have not installed, witch i probably had, as ive been on this install for since i got my 7.04 cd's after the version was released.

EDIT: do you have coreutils installed from synaptic? 44683 to check it out open synaptic from 'System >Administration >Synaptic Package Manager' enter your root pasword when it asks it then use the search function. And either enter 'chk' or 'coreutils' into the search:) now see if you have coreutils installed, if not.

Install it!:). [QUOTE=did you make sure that you have that chkconfig utility?[/QUOTE] well.

This chkconfig is a warning not an error. I did not install those packages manually. This is my tomboy note, worked now allready several times on ubuntu 32/64bit feisty and gutsy hope this helps.

Besides maya 2008 linux has several important bug fixes. This is a mayor update for linux in my eyes. Stuck menu, crash with the shortcut w if you release the mouse early etc. I found out that it is saver for me to install the maya deb in the same order as in tomboy note blow, with the graphical package manager. Hope this helps. Setup - maya ----------------------------------------------#stupid libXm error /aw/COM/bin/installKey error libXm.so.2 ->/lib/libc.so.6 ----------------------------------------------#crash report • export MAYA_DEBUG_ENABLE_CRASH_REPORTING=1 • maya -d gdb ----------------------------------------------#convert rpm sudo apt-get install csh alien for i in *.rpm; do sudo alien -cv $i; done ----------------------------------------------#symlink sudo ln -s /usr/aw /aw sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk /autodesk ----------------------------------------------#install -!!IGNORE CHKCONFIG WARNING!! I hit a road block although the installation had gone smoothly.

Never produced any errors. And i can use maya now.

Every tool i tried is working perfectly. But the problem is that i can't type!!!

I can't type in the open file dialog so i haven't been able to open any files i've tried copy-pasting characters in the dialog but its not working. I can type in the channel box but not in open/save dialog baxes and the mel command line someone help!!! (i can open files by double clicking on them but then i have to overwrite the original while saving cuz i can't give a new name.).