HOWTO: Installing Maya 7.0

[szr4321]

This thread is about installing Alias Wavefront Maya 7.0 on Ubuntu, tested on Hoary 5.04.

It's based on johannes' thread about Maya 6.5 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=45748).

The instructions are very similar for Autodesk Maya 8.0 and 8.5 (tested on Feisty 7.04). Thanks to ZombieAcademy for providing these hints.
You only need to adjust the filenames when installing the packages.

Install the following programs, in case you don't already have them:
apt-get install csh alienCopy over all rpm installation files to a local directory.
We need to convert the rpm-packages to debian format using alien. Change to the directory that holds your rpms and run:
for i in *.rpm; do sudo alien -cv $i; doneThis will take some time.
(fragmental reported that he had problems running alien on a FAT filesystem, so better don't try that.)
To make Maya install without problems later, we need to create the following link, even though /usr/aw doesn't exist yet:
sudo ln -s /usr/aw /aw
For Maya 8.0 / 8.5, you also need to run

sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk /autodesk

Now we're ready to install the Maya packages:
(Change the filenames according to your version. Also have a look at the update at the end of this howto.)
sudo dpkg -i awcommon-server_9.5-2_i386.deb
For Maya 8.0 / 8.5, you can ignore the warning about chkconfig not being found. Now, run

sudo dpkg -i awcommon_9.5-2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i maya7-0_7.0-375_i386.debNow you need to install your license file (aw.dat).
Copy it over to /var/flexlm (create this directory if it doesn't exist):
sudo cp aw.dat /var/flexlmMake sure Maya has read-access to this file.
I didn't need to install aksusbd*.deb.
To stop Maya from complaining at startup about not being able to create a log file, run

sudo mkdir /usr/tmp
sudo chmod 777 /usr/tmp

You should be able to run Maya now by running:
maya
DinoeL noted that to fix the error

/aw/maya7.0/bin/maya.bin: /aw/maya7.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

you need to create some symlinks (only if you get the error above!):

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/aw/maya/lib/libstdc++.so.5
sudo ln -sf /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/aw/maya/lib/libgcc_s.so.1

In case you get the error "Can't Find libXp.so.6", you need to install libxp6 (thanks to Rixeh for this):apt-get install libxp6
Should you get the error "/aw/COM/bin/installKey: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory":apt-get install libmotif3
To install the documentation files (optional step), run:
sudo dpkg -i maya7-0-docs-en-us_7.0-381_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i maya7-0-docserver_7.0-381_i386.debYou can start up and shut down the documentation server using
/usr/aw/maya/docs/startDocServer.sh
/usr/aw/maya/docs/shutdownDocServer.shTo make the documentation server start up at boot time, create the script /etc/init.d/maya-doc-server (as root) with the following content:
#! /bin/sh
#
# maya-doc-server
#
# Starts and stops the Maya Documentation Server
#
set -e
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
PATH=$PATH:/usr/aw/maya/docs
DESC="Maya Documentation Server"
NAME=maya-doc-server
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC"
startDocServer.sh
echo "."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping $DESC"
shutdownDocServer.sh
echo "."
;;
restart|force-reload)
echo -n "Restarting $DESC"
shutdownDocServer.sh
startDocServer.sh
echo "."
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0Now runsudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/maya-doc-server
sudo update-rc.d maya-doc-server defaultsThat should basically be all you need for a proper Maya installation on Ubuntu. Let me know if it worked for you!

I had big trouble running Maya and having the X composite extension enabled at the same time (using an nVidia card and current drivers): all titlebars disappeared. Apparently I'm not the only one with this problem (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=106703&highlight=maya#post106703), so better disable compositing when using Maya. There's another post (http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5499540) on the Autodesk forum that might be helpful (thanks, Bart Simpson 18 ).
Additionally, my window display got garbled when scrolling. For me it worked to add the following section to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

You need to restart your X server to use these new settings. Compiz / Beryl probably won't work anymore because of this.

By default, [Alt] + mouse moves windows in Gnome. However, for Maya you need the Alt-key for rotation, zooming etc.
You can change the key binding to move windows in the Gnome settings. For example, set it to the Super-key, which corresponds to the Windows-key.

If you get font errors (e.g. "Error: Failed trying to load font : -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-"), you might want to check your xorg.conf; especially if you've got an ATI driver installed: some users reported that this driver messes up the font paths.

If Maya segfaults on startup, you should double-check your license file.

mattb reported a problem using the TextCurve tool (Create -> Text) in the Maya 6.5 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=45748) thread (Maya doesn't find the font files). I'm not aware of a solution to this right now.

Alias provides a set of "Bonus Tools" (http://www.alias.com/glb/eng/community/downloads/bonus_tools/index.jsp) which might be interesting for some of you. Just convert and install the rpm in the same way as above.

Meanwhile, Alias released an update, Maya 7.01 (http://www.alias.com/glb/eng/support/product_support.jsp?itemId=5200001). You'll need a bronze account to download, but that only means you'll have to register there (for free). This update includes all the rpms to install Maya.

There is also a download for Maya 8.5 Service Pack 1 (http://www.alias.com/glb/eng/support/product_support.jsp?itemId=9000001).

A cursor issue can be fixed by running

export MAYA_MMSET_DEFAULT_XCURSOR=1

(Thanks to endymon for this hint.)

[simoncullen]

it's okay now! cheers

[Rixeh]

Works like a charm. An FYI, if anyone gets an error saying "Can't Find libXp.so.6", just apt-get install libxp6. ;)

[szr4321]

@Rixeh: Glad to hear that it worked for you!
Thanks a lot for the libxp6 hint, I've added it to the HowTo.

[SecondMan]

Hi all,

I am a complete and utter newbie to Linux, but got my machine up and running on Ubuntu and now trying to install Maya 7. I am converting the rpm's to .deb files (or at least I am trying, but instead of building .deb files, alien creates directories which all contain a /debian and a /usr dir. Got no idea why and how to use them... any thoughts?

Thanks!

[SecondMan]

This is the output I get for one of them:

dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k -d
dh_installdirs
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \
xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/awcommon
dh_compress
dh_makeshlibs
dh_installdeb
dh_shlibdeps
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find path for libXm.so.2
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find path for libXp.so.6
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libstdc++ (soname 5, path /usr/lib32/libstdc+ +.so.5, dependency field Depends)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libXt (soname 6, path /usr/lib32/libXt.so.6, dependency field Depends)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libX11 (soname 6, path /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 , dependency field Depends)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libXmu (soname 6, path /usr/lib32/libXmu.so.6 , dependency field Depends)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for (libXp.so.6)
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libXp (soname 6, path , dependency field Depe nds)
dh_gencontrol
sh: gcc: command not found
dpkg-architecture: warning: Couldn't determine gcc system type, falling back to default (native compilation)
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture amd64 does not appear in package's list (i386)
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
find: AWCommon-9.5: No such file or directory


Looks like the fact that I am running this on an AMD64 system is an issue as well. Might not be possible at all to convert then... :(

[szr4321]

You might want to try to install the build-essential package using apt-get / synaptic. This will include gcc for example. I'm not sure though if that'll help or if it's a AMD64 related issue.

[DaveA]

Hi,
I'm trying to get Maya 6 running on Breezy (sorry I couldn't find a more pertinent thread) but when I start Maya the output window continously shows this error message (a continous cascade):

// Error: Failed trying to load font : -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-p-82-iso8859-1 //
// Error: Failed trying to load font : -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 //
// Error: Failed trying to load font : -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 //
// Error: Failed trying to load font : -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 //
// Error: Failed trying to load font : -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 //
// Error: Failed trying to load font : -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 //
// Error: Failed trying to load font : -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-*-*-*-p-82-iso8859-1 //

Part of Maya interface is obviously missing fonts (timeline, rangeslider etc)

What shall I do/install to get this missing helvetica?

A friend has the same problem with Maya 7 / Breezy, so at least it's not only Maya 6 related

[chadwick359]

Nice Howto, thanks for it. But whenever i just try to run the command maya, bash outputs this

bash: /usr/local/bin/maya: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Any suggestions?

[szr4321]

bash: /usr/local/bin/maya: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
Could it be possible that you haven't installed csh (at the very beginning of the HowTo)?
Try to runsudo apt-get install csh

[szr4321]

What shall I do/install to get this missing helvetica?
You might want to try to install appropriate xfonts-* packages, e.g. xfonts-100dpi provides /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvBO14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz which seems what you're looking for. You can check what fonts are installed by running something likexlsfonts -fn "*helvetica-bold*"

[chadwick359]

Yes, I had installed csh, and a reinstall fixed it. However, I still have a problem. The UI doesn't seem to be rendering properly. Parts or menus and buttons don't seem to be refreshing, and I get choppy lines across rarley used parts of the UI. It isn't usually a problem, but it does get annoying when I can't see all of the options. Is there any way to fix this?

[MR.T]

when trying to run maya I get the error "Segmentation fault" in terminal.

Eh I just notest the main maya file is i686...and I have a athlon xp CPU,is that why I got the error?,and if so can I simply go into synaptic and remove all the maya DEBs Ive installed and then get the i386 version of maya and install them? or can I do something with my existing i686 files?

thanks

[groblus]

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)

[DaveA]

Thanks for your help szr4321 and groblus! :) :) :)

I already had xfonts-100dpi installed (I think they come as default in Ubuntu) so after reading fontconfig help I started messing with folders but couldn't think of the xorg.conf by ati :???: (I'm using Ubuntu/Linux in general since last week) Damn driver! Besides being a pain to install (have you read the how-to for latest ati 6.18.6? ;) ), a slow performer, is also a big troublemaker (garbled res etc..). Thanks again! :KS

[szr4321]

it turned out that i had my xorg.conf made by ati driver installer and it had font paths mixed upThanks for the hint, I've updated the HowTo! :)

[szr4321]

Yes, I had installed csh, and a reinstall fixed it. However, I still have a problem. The UI doesn't seem to be rendering properly. Parts or menus and buttons don't seem to be refreshing, and I get choppy lines across rarley used parts of the UI. It isn't usually a problem, but it does get annoying when I can't see all of the options. Is there any way to fix this?Did you try to update your graphics driver?

[szr4321]

when trying to run maya I get the error "Segmentation fault" in terminal.

Eh I just notest the main maya file is i686...and I have a athlon xp CPU,is that why I got the error?Hm, i686 should be just fine with an Athlon XP.

[MR.T]

^^^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?

thanks

[szr4321]

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. This might give some hint where to look at.

Of course you might want to try to install the i386-version of Maya if the above doesn't help.

[MR.T]

^^^^^^^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 -1313652608 (LWP 9943)]
[New Thread -1315165264 (LWP 9948)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1313652608 (LWP 9943)]
0xb66b0cd2 in deselect__12TstkEnvGv () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so

using the bt command I get this:

#0 0xb66b0cd2 in deselect__12TstkEnvGv ()
from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#1 0xb66b0bec in deselect__12TstkEnvGv ()
from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#2 0xb66c6cbf in afj5iW () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#3 0xb66c652e in l_checkout () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#4 0xb66c6062 in l_checkout () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#5 0xb66c5e58 in lc_checkout () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#6 0xb66b1540 in secCheckoutLicenseByProcess ()
from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#7 0xb66b0b43 in select__12TstkEnvGv () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#8 0xb66af4bf in secReadVersion () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#9 0xb66af774 in TregSelectGv::value () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#10 0xb66aeca0 in sAttrVerify__10TvarSetGv ()
from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#11 0x080520a8 in appmain ()
#12 0x0806a5cb in main ()

what does that mean?

thanks for the help so far

[szr4321]

#0 0xb66b0cd2 in deselect__12TstkEnvGv ()
from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#1 0xb66b0bec in deselect__12TstkEnvGv ()
from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#2 0xb66c6cbf in afj5iW () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#3 0xb66c652e in l_checkout () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#4 0xb66c6062 in l_checkout () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#5 0xb66c5e58 in lc_checkout () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#6 0xb66b1540 in secCheckoutLicenseByProcess ()
from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#7 0xb66b0b43 in select__12TstkEnvGv () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#8 0xb66af4bf in secReadVersion () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#9 0xb66af774 in TregSelectGv::value () from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#10 0xb66aeca0 in sAttrVerify__10TvarSetGv ()
from /aw/maya7.0/lib/libFoundation.so
#11 0x080520a8 in appmain ()
#12 0x0806a5cb in main ()Sorry, I'm stumped here :( . Unfortunately the crippled debug output isn't that much help without the source code. Did you check your license file (because of secCheckoutLicenseByProcess)? Maybe the official Maya support is able to help you more provided this backtrace.

Did you already try the i386 version?

[lucas]

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. i only need to fix the "Error: Failed trying to load font : -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-" error. :)

[szr4321]

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)

[fragmental]

I get this error when I try to install:

for i in *.rpm; do sudo alien -cv $i; done
LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} aksusbd-redhat-1.5-1.i386.rpm
Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} aksusbd-redhat-1.5-1.i386.rpm": at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 449.
LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} aksusbd-suse-1.7-2.i386.rpm
Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} aksusbd-suse-1.7-2.i386.rpm": at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 449.
LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} AWCommon-9.5-1.i686.rpm
Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} AWCommon-9.5-1.i686.rpm": at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 449.
LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} AWCommon-server-9.5-1.i686.rpm
Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} AWCommon-server-9.5-1.i686.rpm": at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 449.
LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} Maya7_0-7.0-374.i686.rpm
Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} Maya7_0-7.0-374.i686.rpm": at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 449.
LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} Maya7_0-docs_en_US-7.0-380.i686.rpm
Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} Maya7_0-docs_en_US-7.0-380.i686.rpm": at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 449.
LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} Maya7_0-docserver-7.0-380.i686.rpm
Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} Maya7_0-docserver-7.0-380.i686.rpm": at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 449.


Any ideas?

[fragmental]

Must have been my copies of the rpms. Seems to be working now. It hasn't finished yet, so something could still go wrong.

[apoclypse]

Everything is working fine but it seems that mental ray does't want to render at all. it keeps saying contour.mi and whole bunch of other things are not found.

[szr4321]

Everything is working fine but it seems that mental ray does't want to render at all. it keeps saying contour.mi and whole bunch of other things are not found.Does /aw/maya7.0/mentalray/include/contour.mi exist on your system?

[fragmental]

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.

[szr4321]

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.Thanks for the hint! I'll update the howto.

[Eden]

Thanks for the guide, works ok in 5.10 as well.
One problem I did have was running the following line to convert the packages.
for i in *.rpm; do sudo alien -cv $i; done
I was getting the same error as fragmental, I c&p'd so that my have been why but copying the same line from fragmental's post worked.

[Eden]

ok im getting a small problem when trying to run maya.
Error: default temp directory /usr/tmp does not have write permissions.
Segmentation fault


any ideas?

[Eden]

3 posts ion a row sorry.

I thought id post a little update, ive got everything working perfectly.

Error: default temp directory /usr/tmp does not have write permissions.
this came up becuase there was no tmp directory in the usr folder, so i just created one with rw access.

second one was the licence, check it, fixed it and it now works.

[tauil]

Hello there !

I've installed Maya 7 like tutorial said but I got this erro:

"The 'Maya' application resource file cannot be found. Maya canno proceed without it."

Does Anyone know what is that ? ( see the erro screenshot http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=6138&stc=1&d=1139966477 )

Thanks,
Tauil

[aroticoz]

I have the exact same problem as tauil.

If someone knows how to fix this please say, I have to get Maya working fast :neutral:

[aden]

Hm i installing maya.. running and everything goes fine but.. when i trying rotate screen or zoom in it don't work.. i pressing alt + left mouse and trying to move it but it did nothing. Someone know what could be wrong or had that problem before?

[sorry for my english :P]

[Bubs]

ok I can't get it to run!!

I installed it all the way up to the license but when I type "maya" in the terminal nothing happens. (without quotes):cry:

I get this message: bash: maya: command not found

whats up I'm a complete noob at linux so any help is appreciated.

[aden]

sudo apt-get install csh

and then make ur rpm files to deb using:

for i in *.rpm; do sudo alien -cv $i; done

should be ok after that

[Bubs]

ok don't flame me. but has anyone gotten the maya crack to work in linux. i've got the rpm's and the crack but I just don't know how to run the crack.

[aden]

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.
3. 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.

[Bubs]

yea but how do I use the keygen it's an exe and comes out as an unrecognized format.

i think I got everything else
i installed the rpm's using alien ( ididn't convert to debs I just installed the rpms themselves)
I found my ehternet address and replaced "your host"
but I don't know how to run the keygen.exe

or if i even have to, which in that case i messed up somewhere else

[aden]

U have to did this on ur windows.. if u don't have it well.. u've got a problem :P
btw. maybe u should make rpms to deb before installing cos if i aliened them without csh maya wasn't run so there's can be a problem when u wrote that maya doesn't starta by writing "maya"

ps. Yes! i know! my english sux ;]

[Bubs]

ok one last question. I saw this ealier but they were running an athlon xp chip

does it matter that I have the i686 rpm's

I'm running a hp laptop with a pentium 4. I'm having a dificult time finding the i386 rpm's

[aden]

i've got i686 package running on p4 also and everything is ok

[Bubs]

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:
http://www.alias.com/en/Community/Special/keys/maya/



this is what the /tmp/alias.... file has in it.

<b><u>License Installation Report</u></b><br>
Installing from license file /usr/aw/maya/license_data/prekey.dat.
Input license contains 0 license(s) matching this computer.<br>
End of license installation report.

anyone know what this means and how I can fix this?

[Bubs]

ok despite the last post maya works now !!!!!! \\:D/

thank you aden.

buy the way did you fix the alt+mouse problem?

[aden]

in gnome u have to go system -> preferences -> windows [or sth like that] and there u can change alt for other button and rotate will work

[notor]

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.

[ibabob]

Great guide! 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?

Thank you

[smudge]

Hi guys,

I'm generally a pretty good linux hacker and have no problem installing maya and it's licence it and found this post very good. One thing I do have problems with however is when I load Maya, I cannot alt+mousebutton to scroll around. I'm using KDE, and alt+mousebutton moves the whole screen around, not the camera! Anyone have this problem, or know a fix?

Keep up the good work! :KS

[Bubs]

you can download a pdf manual with all kinds of install info on the alias website. so when I read it it says this

"open the kde control center.
select desktop then select window behavior
open the actions tab
in the inner window, title bar and frame section, for modifier key alt, set all mouse action combonations to nothing."

[smudge]

Thank you Bubs, a very helpful tip that works a treat. I am now playing with window specific settings to see if I can enable this only on one desktop, a Maya desktop. Thanks again.

[animax_forever]

Hi guyz,

i successfully installed maya 7.0 on my ubuntu 5.10.it is working but in startup it shows some errors,

file -f -new;
// Warning: Unable to get OpenGL visual with a depth buffer, trying without //
// Warning: Unable to get OpenGL visual with a depth buffer, trying without //
// Warning: Unable to get OpenGL visual with a depth buffer, trying without //
// Warning: Unable to get OpenGL visual with a depth buffer, trying without //
// Result: ./untitled //
docServer -start;
// 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 7.0updateRendererUI;
// Saving runtime commands to : /root/maya/7.0/prefs/userRunTimeCommands.mel
// Saving hotkeys to : /root/maya/7.0/prefs/userHotkeys.mel
// Saving named commands to : /root/maya/7.0/prefs/userNamedCommands.mel
// Preferences saved. See Script Editor for details.
// Warning: Unable to get OpenGL visual with a depth buffer, trying without //

i have ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card.How to install it's driver.I downloaded the setup from it's site.
I then generated the source pakage for ubuntu 5.10, then i don't know how to compile it.{lease help me.](*,)

[Mike_48]

Potreste dirmi cosa è il Run Utility e dove si trova in Maya .
Grazie mille
Mike

[Bubs]

Ho usato i pesci de Babele per tradurre questo in modo da può essere un po'divertente. il programma di utilità di funzionamento è il terminale. dopo voi installi il maya aprono il terminale ed il tipo "maya" ed esso dovrebbe funzionare. per trovare lo sguardo terminale sotto la finestra di applicazioni.

[arash]

I managed to install Maya 7 on ubuntu, without any problem, following this HowTo, but I can't get maya to start on "dapper" following the same HowTo.
I get this
bash: maya: command not found

I think it's a permission-problem. But I am newbie linux user and I don't know where to begin.

Anyone can help?

[sergio_dos_bonecos]

Hello

Is there anyone that could send me the activation code for MAYA7.0 ??
please.
thank

[Bubs]

you have to have a crack... and you can easily find it on the internet, just google maya 7 crack and you'll find it. it's a little tough to figure out at first but it works

[abs]

dudes, just a quick NOTE: I strongly advise against using any direct links to cracks/keygens, so for all you future poster please bare this in mind.

thanks.


also if your working in Maya try the maximise window mode and you can have a little extra space for editing/modelling.


Abs

[MistaED]

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

[abs]

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.

[atrus123]

I managed to install Maya 7 on ubuntu, without any problem, following this HowTo, but I can't get maya to start on "dapper" following the same HowTo.
I get this
bash: maya: command not found

I think it's a permission-problem. But I am newbie linux user and I don't know where to begin.

Anyone can help?


I am running into this exact same problem. For some reason, Maya7 doesn't want to work with Dapper. I can't figure it out for now, which means I'm stuck downgrading. Anyone have any ideas?

J.

[jujoje]

Hi,

I'm running maya 7 on dapper and mental ray and the 'maya' and 'Render' commands are all working from the terminal.

Given that the commands aren't working in the terminal for you I'm guessing that there may be some problem with converting the rpms in dapper. The ones I used to install maya (following this guide) were made in breezy, and I vaguely remember having some difficulty with ones that I'd made in dapper.

If you look in /usr/local/bin there should be 3 files which are put there by mayaL: "maya" "Render" and "fcheck". If they are not there then something has cocked up somewhere along the line.

Unfortunately, beeing something of a newbie myself, I can't really suggest anything other then trying to convert the rpms again or going to breezy, converting the rpms, saving them, reinstalling dapper and trying again. Not the best of solutions I'm afraid :(. Perhaps someone who knows a bit more can provide a better solution.

In relation to mental ray freaking out, I found that after installing mental ray was looking for the shaders in the wrong place. This can be fixed by editing /usr/aw/maya7.0/mentalray/maya.rayrc file and changing the first line to:


registry "{MAYABASE}" value "/usr/aw/maya7.0//mentalray"

Sorry about the somewhat speculative reply. Hope something in there helps :)

[jujoje]

That should have been:

registry "{MAYABASE}" value "/usr/aw/maya7.0/mentalray"

Oddly enough I did originally have two //s in there but oddly enough it still worked :)

[Mike_48]

Crack should has "install.txt" file. If he doesn't:
Using the run utility and type: awkeygen.exe aw.dat, What does mean this! What exactly is the run utility and where I can find it.

Many thanks

[Bubs]

the "run" Utility is you console the Dos Prompt looking thingy and the awkeygen should be in the folder with the crack

[MistaED]

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).

[apatris]

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 http://firstwebdev.net/screen.png

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 :

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=90751&page=2&highlight=rgb.txt

Thanks again for an understandable guide

[lethal_falcon]

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. Thanks.

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.

[lethal_falcon]

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!

[JakobWelner]

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

[honolulu]

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:
http://www.alias.com/en/Community/Special/keys/maya/

can anybody help me?

[ephemeros]

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. i read about using the flag "-c" to allow maya scripts to be run;
-in the console i get the following errors:
ln: creating symbolic link `/aw/maya' to `maya7.0': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/aw/maya7.0/bin/maya' to `Maya7.0': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/aw/maya7.0/bin/plug-ins/Mayatomr.sog' to `Mayatomr.so': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/aw/maya7.0/lib/libgcc_s.so' to `libgcc_s.so.1': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/aw/maya7.0/lib/libstdc++.so.5' to `libstdc++.so.5.0.6': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/aw/maya7.0/lib/libstdc++.so' to `libstdc++.so.5.0.6': No such file or directory
sed: can't read /aw/maya7.0/mentalray/maya.rayrc: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /aw/maya7.0/bin/unsupported/mayarender_with_mr: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /aw/maya7.0/bin/unsupported/mayaexport_with_mr: No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/maya.rayrc' to `/aw/maya7.0/mentalray/maya.rayrc': No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/mayarender_with_mr' to `/aw/maya7.0/bin/unsupported/mayarender_with_mr': No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/mayaexport_with_mr' to `/aw/maya7.0/bin/unsupported/mayaexport_with_mr': No such file or directory

so:
-i must create a symbolic link '/usr/aw/maya' for the existing folder '/usr/aw/maya7.0';
-create a symbolic link '/usr/aw/maya7.0/bin/maya' for the existing C shell script '/usr/aw/maya7.0/bin/Maya7.0';
-create a symbolic link '/usr/aw/maya7.0/bin/plug-ins/Mayatomr.sog' for the existing lib '/usr/aw/maya7.0/bin/plug-ins/Mayatomr.so';
-create a link `/aw/maya7.0/lib/libgcc_s.so' for the existing lib `/aw/maya7.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1';
-the following links were allready made (on my comp) in the installation: `/aw/maya7.0/lib/libstdc++.so.5' for `/aw/maya7.0/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.6' and `/aw/maya7.0/lib/libstdc++.so' for `/aw/maya7.0/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.6'.

---for the other 6 errors i didnt do anything.
next i just added symbolic links with the same names in '/usr/local/bin' for the following files: '/usr/aw/maya7.0/bin/fcheck', '/usr/aw/maya7.0/bin/imgcvt', '/usr/aw/maya7.0/bin/maya' and '/usr/aw/maya7.0/bin/Render'.
-- that was all about the installation.
---about the licence activation, you must have instructions from Alias/Autodesk. the 'aw.dat' file must be copied in '/usr/aw' folder. you can see the HOSTID/HWaddr typing 'ifconfig' in the console (12 digits code). for the poorer people: the crack is made for Windoze and should work with wine, but i won't discuss about that. in a better world, anyone would have the possibility to buy Maya ;)
Maya rullz! \m/

[Victor.Barna]

Hi guys, i'm having a slight problem with my installation...i installed maya, everything was ok, i installed the licence but now, when i try to run maya, i keep getting the "maya 7.0 requires an activation key" window, please help me.
thanks in advance.

[BIGtrouble77]

Has anyone tried to do a forced install with a 64bit system? I have a feeling it might work as long as I have the 32 nvidia libraries installed, but just wanted to check first.

[}{yBr!D^]

I'm actually having problems with step 7 in the install.txt...

"Using the run utility and type: awkeygen.exe aw.dat"

When I type in "awkeygen.exe aw.dat" in window's run utility i get this error message...

"Windows cannot find 'awkeygen.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the start button, and then click Search."

What am I doing wrong...? there is no typo's and I copy/paste it... wtf?

[mech7]

lol plz no crack replies here.. go elsewhere for illegal software..

Btw.. does anybody also has a black cross issue.. and a bit slow performance, and also I have lost all animtion when for example i frame something up?

[mech7]

When I run this in the terminal it works.. but not when i use this in the menu with alacarte? how can i fix this ?



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!

[Ashur]

mattb reported a problem using the TextCurve tool (Create -> Text) in the Maya 6.5 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=45748) thread (Maya doesn't find the font files). I'm not aware of a solution to this right now.

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.

[jujoje]

Has anyone managed to get a wacom tablet working with maya?

I found a post on Highend3d (http://www.highend3d.com/boards/lofiversion/index.php/t215925.html) 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.

[pgatrick]

After getting everything installed, I'm having a problem with meshes getting really screwed up after only one or two subdivides or smooths.. Anyone else have this problem? I'm on 64 bit ubuntu, so it's installed on a chroot, would that make any difference in it?

[sunkari]

Guys i installed Maya 7.01 in Ubuntu 6.06.When i run Maya I am unable to see workspace(views).The error shown by the application is opengl is not configured properly.Wat i have to do now?

[draka]

Hi all

I've installed maya , but when I wrote in the terminal

"$ maya"

I got this:

"/aw/maya7.0/bin/maya.bin: error while loading shared libraries: /aw/maya7.0/lib/libPolyEngine.so: unexpected reloc type 0x0a"

does anybody has any idea?

[ephemeros]

@mech7: write MAYA_MMSET_DEFAULT_XCURSOR=1 in your /home/user/maya/7.0/maya.env file. start maya as usual;
@sunkari: you must configure the video drivers for your video card. check the threads about configuring the video card with hardware acceleration, this is not a maya issue (i hope ;) );
@draka: what version of ubuntu do you use? that souns weird, i never heard about that problem.
@pgatrick: what do you mean by "screwd up", can you post a screenshot?

[draka]

I'm using 6.06.
It's wired, yes. I read many forums and there was nothing about that:confused:

[pgatrick]

@pgatrick: what do you mean by "screwd up", can you post a screenshot?
Here's the screenshot. Trying to smooth or subdivide on anything more than just a simple model and it does that. Polys are the only thing I'm having problems with, everything else works flawlessly.

[MistaED]

pgatrick: running 32-bit dapper here and I can smooth/subdivide fine on a basic cube over and over. What video chip do you use? Try uploading the .ma/.mb file and I'll take a look if it's video card related or it really is maya/ubuntu stuffing up. Does the object have any history? Try clearing it first maybe and then smooth/subd.

Maya 8 just came out a few days ago and there's a 64-bit port, so maybe you could test that out (granted you have enough money to get the next version :P).

[CyaNox]

Installing Maya 8 using this guide was a success. Everything works here on my Dell Inspiron 9400 with Ubuntu 6.06.

I had one minor problem and that was that Maya could not write to /usr/tmp ... a simple chmod 777 did the trick.

[calford]

I managed to install maya 8 with the instructions and everything worked fine.
i did notice that the time line had the numbers missing and the fonts looked quite crappy.
I am using xgl (eye candy) and have noticed that it messes the graphics up.
this topic will fix most of those problems:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=176636

but now maya stays on top of every other window on any desktop. and it doesnt have a window border so it cant be resized or closed.

any ideas how to fix that

[danny b]

Has any one installed D2's nuke on ubuntu? www.d2software.com

I know this isnt the right discussion board but i couldn't find any more sutible.

Cheers

[redx666]

Has anyone been able to install Maya 8 64-bit using this method?

[xxxx]

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.
3. 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

[westie]

when I run this....
sudo dpkg -i awcommon-server_10.80-8_amd64.deb

I get a this:
Warning: Unable to locate the chkconfig utility!

and it halts any ideas?

[Madley]

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?

Thanks

[eagle0691]

To #94

That is "$alien -c #(includ scripts)" to convert rpms,check this out, may be help.

[eagle0691]

either for # 94

sometimes maya 8 need "csh" to startup, then "apt-get install csh", this might fix your problem

[jankubjan]

i tried installing maya on kubuntu, everything went on well, until
i tried to install the licence, whatever you do to aw.dat file, the maya licence manager says.. its not a valid host id..., can anyone help me on this...

[Madley]

Thanks for your help, now I try and see what happen...

I'll told you if so it works.

Thanks.

[iyeo]

How did you people who got this working get past the server installer wanting chkconfig? Chkconfig is only available in fedora/redhat.

[iyeo]

Nevermind about chkconfig. I got Maya 8 x64 working with ubuntu 6.06 x64. The font rendering is a bit funky, but it works. Thank you all.

[leif3d]

Nevermind about chkconfig. I got Maya 8 x64 working with ubuntu 6.06 x64. The font rendering is a bit funky, but it works. Thank you all.
Did you get Maya 8 running with the same steps? or you had to do something different (to solve your problem)?...and how stable is Maya 8 x64 on Ubuntu?

By the way...I tried installing Maya 7.0.1 on Ubuntu amd64...I couldn't get past the 2nd step...is this because it's a 32 bit package and not a 64 bit one? Thanks;)

[strattonbrazil]

Has anyone tried Maya 8.0 with success? I seem to be getting some kind of error in alien that doesn't give me any debian files.

Here's the output when I try alien on the server rpm:

dh_compress
dh_makeshlibs
dh_installdeb
dh_shlibdeps
dh_gencontrol
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: control directory has bad permissions 700 (must be >=0755 and <=0775)
dpkg-deb: building package `awcommon-server' in `../awcommon-server_10.80-13_i386.deb'.
dh_builddeb: command returned error code 512
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
find AWCommon-server-10.80 -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;
find: AWCommon-server-10.80: No such file or directory
rm -rf AWCommon-server-10.80

[leif3d]

If anyone is interested, I solved the Mental Ray not rendering problem by creating a "tmp" folder in "usr" and giving it read and write permissions. I also gave this permission to all "aw" folders and "var" folders...now mental ray workd fine.

[leif3d]

NEW PROBLEM! Fcheck wont load images...I can get the application to run fine...but it wont display anything...anyone out there!](*,)

[tempo500]

anybody having problems switching the viewports from fullscreen to a 4 pane view with the spacebar? i have to hit it really fast, so it only works every 10 time... + how do i link the libsoundfile corectly? thanx phil

[uno_the_great]

Great walkthrough! I used it to install maya 8 without any problems what so ever. It runs great so far, without any issues.

[leif3d]

Just so everyone knows!!!

Do not upgrade Driver 8762 If you have an Nvidia Card...the new drivers do not work well with Fcheck!...only use drivers 8762!

[jujoje]

I'm using the new beta drivers (1.0-9625) and fcheck is running fine for me, so maybe it's not related to the drivers.

However, in edgy the swatches in hypershade become corrupted if you scroll them up or down. Relatively easy to work around (open and close the attribute editor), and they refresh, but it is relatively annoying.

[AlexC_]

Hey,

I'm having some trouble installing Maya 8. I convert all the packages to .deb files and install them fine - but when I type "maya" in terminal i get "command not found" - there is no trace of any Maya files on my Ubuntu install, even though I did Install it.

Any help would be great as I can then be free of Windows for ever!

[AlexC_]

Now I'm getting this error:

alex@alex-ubuntu:~/Maya-install$ maya
*** Fatal Error: Failed creating directory: /home/alex/maya
Maya could not create the necessary startup directories.
Please check for sufficient disk space and necessary write permissions.

I'm so close! someone please help =)

Edit: Fixed it by removing the maya link that was broken in my home folder. Now Maya loads but it looks HORRIBLE, is it suppose to be like that?

[jujoje]

If you mean the lovely ugly bold fonts and the boxy grey menus and stuff, I'm afraid that it is meant to look like that. I did look into this a while back and it's apparently due to Maya using a custom version of an old library for the rendering the menus and fonts and stuff. Was a while ago when I looked into it, and there were a couple of things what were meant to fix it and force maya to use a more up-to-date library, but I couldn't get them working.

[AlexC_]

oh right that sucks, I hope they make a native GTK for the next version, but now Autodesk took over I doubt it!

Does anyone know why I can't use the Mouse navigation controls aswell, like the ALT combinations.

[jujoje]

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.

[jujoje]

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.]

[luap56]

hi i have just installed maya and i keep getting this problem when i go to open maya in the terminal *****@****:~#maya it wont open but when i open it like this *****@****:~#/usr/aw/maya8.0/bin/maya.bin
it will open but then this is the real problem it comes up with a box that has a line that you can click and a little black box:confused: i will send a pic so if any one out there know what there doing plz make a post ty

[AlexC_]

Which one is the font size then out of this?

-bitstream-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-iso8859-15

Thats the exact font I want ( It looks great ) but the font is huge. Also I have found out how to change the main UI color with this:

*basicBackground: #373737
Maya*Background: #373737

in the MayaScheme file

[ilbozo]

Today i installed Maya 8 on my edgy distribution. (Absolutely standard/updated with no other fonts installed except for standard windows ttf fonts).
Maya now has no more huge font!!!

[ilbozo]

Today i updated my edgy and maya turned back to bad fonts...

[apoclypse]

For some reason flexlm doesn't seemto recognize the hostid and is giving me errors when I try to start maya. It keeps asking for the license file eventhough its already in the /var/flexlm folder and the file worked perfectly in dapper. Any ideas?

[labradorg13]

thanks for this all information....

[leif3d]

For some reason flexlm doesn't seemto recognize the hostid and is giving me errors when I try to start maya. It keeps asking for the license file eventhough its already in the /var/flexlm folder and the file worked perfectly in dapper. Any ideas?

Enable executing rights on the folder and file.

[leif3d]

I updated to Edgy and the bad fonts problem happened. Maya also got very buggy with the new drivers...to the point where it's unworkable. This sucks...

[iyeo]

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. Download it. 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.

[iyeo]

The link for fixing fonts is on the page before this. I finally have maya8_x64 running on edgy_x64 with a nice looking ui with mental ray fully working. Mine seems to even run fine (minus some transparent menu bars) with beryl/emerald running (so with compositing on) so no need to create different sessions. Compared to 3DS Max 8/Mental Ray on windows on the same box, render times are nearly identical. If I can switch to Maya from 3DS, no need for windows!

[jujoje]

iyeo,

I was wondering if you could tell me how you've got beryl working with maya. I'm running beryl with AIGLX on the new nvidia drivers and everytime I press space and bring up the hotbox my computer hard locks and I have to hit the reset switch.

Any information relating to how you set up beryl or tweaked maya to work with it would be appreciated. It's kinda anoying to have to switch between beryl and metacity.

[gu1tarfreak]

when i put in the first code, it gives me

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

[jujoje]

You need run the command as root, so the command should be:

sudo apt-get install csh alien

Then just enter your password and it start downloading and installing the files.

[iyeo]

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. Anyone?

[jujoje]

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.

[presdec]

the getid gives me localhost bin]$ ./getid
lmutil - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is ""

a little more searching revealed that the hostid is 000000.

My windows HOSTID though is a much different number. what do i do?

[HEMOglobina]

After following the tutorial, I tried to run maya and got the following error:
/aw/maya7.0/bin/maya.bin: /aw/maya7.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
Is there a way to fix this or is my maya broken forever? :)
Thank you for your help,
HEMOglobina

[J-Rod]

do you have GCC installed?

[tempo500]

does anyone have experience with DrQueue? i could use some help with one last remaining issue... slave has problems finding the drqueue script... master render fine. thanks, philiphttp://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=305994

[HEMOglobina]

do you have GCC installed?
Hello J-Rod. 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

[WiredAnim]

I'm following the instructions above trying to install Maya 7 on Ubuntu but I can't get past converting the rpm to deb file it goes fine for awhile but it stops for a minute and then spits out

"dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: could not find any packages for libc.so.6 dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libc (soname 6, path libc.so.6, dependency field Depends)dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: could not find any packages for libdl.so.2dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libdl (soname 2, path libdl.so.2, dependency field Depends)
dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: "


and that goes on for awhlie and it ends like


"library libc (soname 6, path libc.so.6, dependency field Depends)
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture powerpc does not appear in package's list (i386)
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
find Maya8_0-8.0 -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;
find: Maya8_0-8.0: No such file or directory
rm -rf Maya8_0-8.0"

I don't know what to do I have tried installing the files listed that are missing but most of them I can't find. Can anyone help???

Wired

[phyllit]

hi everyone!

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...

thx

[J-Rod]

sudo ln -s /usr/aw /aw

I got a little antsy when I reinstalled Ubuntu/Maya, and I forgot to make the link before installing the converted .deb packages. I am now getting an error that i have seen others get, what I think I need to do is destroy the old link, uninstall all three packages and reinstall in the proper order. Can anyone enlighten me as to what I need to do to get rid of the link that was made with this command?

Meh, disregard this, I don't think I installed csh. :)

[tyfius]

Nevermind about chkconfig. I got Maya 8 x64 working with ubuntu 6.06 x64. The font rendering is a bit funky, but it works. Thank you all.
How did you get past this ?
I've looked at different ways to install chkconfig, but none worked.

[tempo500]

forget chkconfig, its a warning not an error

[tyfius]

It seems so.
I think it installed everything pretty well, I can create cubes and move them around. Only the combination with Beryl is a bit forked, but that's something I'll look into next week, when I have the time.

[sargosis]

hey, i can't seem to find anything about my particular error in this forum. I'm trying to install maya from this tutorial and i keep getting this error when i try to run maya:

apcw: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

i have virtually no linux experience, so i have no idea what this is or what it's about. if you could help me out i'd be greatful.

[pgatrick]

I really have no clue, but I'm going to guess you're on a 64bit system and running the 32bit maya? Maybe do "linux32 maya"? If you've already done that, then I don't kow..

[pgatrick]

I'm following the instructions above trying to install Maya 7 on Ubuntu but I can't get past converting the rpm to deb file it goes fine for awhile but it stops for a minute and then spits out

"dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: could not find any packages for libc.so.6 dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libc (soname 6, path libc.so.6, dependency field Depends)dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: could not find any packages for libdl.so.2dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libdl (soname 2, path libdl.so.2, dependency field Depends)
dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: "


and that goes on for awhlie and it ends like


"library libc (soname 6, path libc.so.6, dependency field Depends)
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture powerpc does not appear in package's list (i386)
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
find Maya8_0-8.0 -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;
find: Maya8_0-8.0: No such file or directory
rm -rf Maya8_0-8.0"

I don't know what to do I have tried installing the files listed that are missing but most of them I can't find. Can anyone help???

Wired

I don't know about the first problem, but the second one is easy enough, it can't make the debs, but the rpms are unpacked already, just go dig the files out of the folder it created and install them by hand.

[sargosis]

actually, i've got a 64 bit system and i'm trying to run the 64 bit maya. i'm still completely new to linux so "simply installing the 32 bit version" is pretty much beyond my capabilities.

[pgatrick]

actually, i've got a 64 bit system and i'm trying to run the 64 bit maya. i'm still completely new to linux so "simply installing the 32 bit version" is pretty much beyond my capabilities.
In that case I really have no idea :-| I'm about to be getting 64bit maya though, I'll see if I get a similar error.. :-k

[Nosiburger]

After following the tutorial, I tried to run maya and got the following error:
/aw/maya7.0/bin/maya.bin: /aw/maya7.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
Is there a way to fix this or is my maya broken forever? :)
Thank you for your help,
HEMOglobina

I have the same problem........](*,)

[snovak]

I too have the same error.. anyone with a fix would be greatly appreciated.

[3dimentia]

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

[3dimentia]

I actually, after a bit more playing around (thought I exhausted all my options there!) managed to get rid of the package and re install it. I had to manually remove the info from /var/lib/dpkg/status for awcommon, and the purged it. After that, the re install of it worked like a charm. I find it strange that it wouldn't even let me re install the silly thing! Oh well alls well that ends well, and my comp is HAPPY SLAPPY with ubuntu!

thx!

[AlexC_]

Hum I've got a problem with aw.dat - when I start Maya it says there is no license found, then if I go to choose it from a location and select 'var/flexlm/aw.dat' it says:

The file contains invalid data. ERROR: FEATURE MayaUnltd has invalid host identifier of 00508d9719dd. (line 1)

The license file works fine on Windows, but not on Ubuntu - why is this?

[3dimentia]

probably cause ubuntu is seeing a different hardware address then your windows box is. There are some utilities you can use in the aw/bin folder where you can check the hardware address. I cant remember the name of it at the moment though.

cheers

[AlexC_]

do you mean the mac address? If so it is the same as on my Windows PC.

[DinoeL]

If you get this error:
/aw/maya7.0/bin/maya.bin: /aw/maya7.0/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

You need to link your libstdc++.so.5, and libgcc_s.so.1 into /usr/aw/maya/lib

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/aw/maya/lib/libstdc++.so.5
sudo ln -sf /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/aw/maya/lib/libgcc_s.so.1

Worked for me.

[3dimentia]

do you mean the mac address? If so it is the same as on my Windows PC.

Yah i did mean your mac address. I thought the same thing, but on my machine in windows, vs machine in ubuntu, its using different mac addresses ( I assume windows/maya is just fine using say a wireless, where as ubuntu and maya were looking at the ethernet card).

I didn't know for sure if this would fix your problem, but it is what my problem was (with that same error) and now everything works just dandy.

cheers

[AlexC_]

Ok so I shall fiddle around with the mac address. Could you give an example of the aw.dat file please? I think I've played around with it to much now and want to check if it's all correct apart from the mac address.

Merry Christmas!

[3dimentia]

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

[AlexC_]

Wooohoo! Thanks so much 3dimentia, now I can be Windows free :mrgreen:

[AlexC_]

Hey,

I'm having some trouble with the Maya open/save dialog, see the attachments. In the Maya dialog all I can see is 2 distorted items, yet in the Nautilus screenshot that is the real contents of the dir I am looking in. Why is it doing this?

Please, Autodesk make a GTK/QT version!! :p

[AlexC_]

anyone?

[AlexC_]

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

*extraLargeBoldLabelFont: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*largeBoldLabelFont: -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*boldLabelFont: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallBoldLabelFont: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*tinyBoldLabelFont: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*plainLabelFont: -*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallPlainLabelFont: -*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*FontList: -*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*obliqueLabelFont: -*-helvetica-bold-o-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallObliqueLabelFont: -*-helvetica-bold-o-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*fixedWidthFont: -*-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallFixedWidthFont: -*-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*XmLabel.fontList: -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*XmLabelGadget.fontList: -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*XmScale*fontList: -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*SgColumn.fontList: -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*XmRowColumn.OptionLabel.fontList: -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*Label*font: -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*LabelFont: -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*Label*fontlist: -*-lucida-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

*basicBackground: #e7e7e7
Maya*Background: #e7e7e7
*textForeground: #000000
*textFieldBackground: #eeeeee
*readOnlyBackground: #bdbdbd
*buttonBackground: #bdbdbd
*scrollBarTroughColor: #bdbdbd
*scrollBarControlBackground: #bdbdbd
*indicatorBackground: #cbcbcb
*radioColor: #0000ff
*checkColor: #ff0000
*blueSelectBackgroundColor1: #3884c4
*blueSelectBackgroundColor2: #81a7c1
*drawingAreaBackground: #90abb1
*drawingAreaContrastColor1: #b86b6b
*drawingAreaContrastColor2: #7894bf
*drawingAreaContrastColor3: #7ba988
*drawingAreaContrastColor4: #ab7ec8
*scrolledListBackground: #bdbdbd
*textBackground: #b5b5b5
*highlightColor1: #ff0000
*highlightColor2: #0000ff
*highlightColor3: #00ff00
*highlightColor4: #a01ef0
*highlightColor5: #ffa500
*highlightColor6: #00ffff
*highlightColor7: #ff00ff
*HighlightColor8: #ffff00
*wMBackground: #aaaaaa
*wMForeground: #000000
*wMActiveBackground: #c6c1aa
*wMActiveForeground: #000000
*textSelectedBackground: #e6e6e6
*textSelectedForeground: #000000
*indicatorLightColor: #ffff00
*selectFillColor: #ffff00
*redColor: #ff0000
*orangeColor: #ff7e00
*yellowColor: #ffff00
*greenColor: #4fe44f
*blueColor: #0000ff
*brownColor: #743f3f
*purpleColor: #ae00ff
*errorColor: #ff0000
*warningColor: #0000ff
*informationColor: #00ff00
*alternateBackground1: #c1adad
*alternateBackground2: #a7b7a7
*alternateBackground3: #bbbbcd
*alternateBackground4: #9fbfbf
*alternateBackground5: #87aaca
*alternateBackground6: #d1d1c9
*disabledTextForeground: #aaaaaa
*layerAdjustmentTextForeground: #e56929
*lightRadioFillColor: #9e9edc
*disabledCheckColor: #dc9e9e

[tempo500]

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.

[tauil]

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!
Tauil

[jujoje]

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?

[tempo500]

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... and guess.... its not going to be an ati... phil

[tauil]

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.
Result: /media/hda5/maya/projects/default/scenes/_Freela_Fabio/caixaAtash/caixaRenderFinal.mb
Total Elapsed Time Since Start Of Maya (hh:mm:ss): 00:00:06
====================================
Resource Usage At Start Of Rendering
====================================
774 Page faults
93.031 Mb Peak total size(Estimated)
6.727 Mb Peak arena size
====================================
37.559 Mb Heap
0.938 Mb Data Blocks
2.555 Mb Arrays
0.375 Mb Transforms
0.125 Mb Keys
2.734 Mb MEL
====================================
A default light has been created, modify defaultRenderGlobals.enableDefaultLight to change this behavior.
Automatic near/far clipping values: 20.8551, 54.8266.
Starting Rendering /media/hda5/maya/projects/TesteAlpha.png.
Constructing shading groups.

Rendering current frame.
Warning: Texture file E:/caixaADMA.jpg doesn't exist, node file1
Warning: Texture file E:/caixa.jpg doesn't exist, node file2
Frame triangle count: 2740958

====================================
Resource Usage At End Of Frame
====================================
23 Page faults
863.434 Mb Peak total size(Estimated)
708.617 Mb Peak arena size
====================================
105.817 Mb Heap
701.891 Mb Render Cache
0.375 Mb Transforms
2.555 Mb Arrays
0.938 Mb Data Blocks
0.065 Mb Render Geometry Arena
2.734 Mb MEL
0.125 Mb Keys
====================================
Postprocessing rendering result.

maya encountered a fatal error

Signal: 11 (Unknown Signal)
Stack trace:
[0xffffe420]
bcopy
FLbufferedWrite
FLwrite
FLbgnput
FLbgnwgroup
/usr/aw/maya7.0/lib/libImage.so [0xb5e7204e]
ILopen
TiffImageFile::open(char const*, char const*)
TrenderFrame::postProcess()
TrenderFrame::cleanUp(bool)
TrenderFrame::render(TrenderCamera&, TgeoManager*, Trect&, bool, Trect&, Tstring&, Tstring&, Tstring&, Tstring&, bool, bool, Tstring&, TcameraTypes::TfieldType, bool, bool, bool, short)
TrenderFrames::render(TdagPath&, bool)
TrenderItemCmd::doIt()
renderBatchMode(Tmodel*, TrenderGlobalsOverrides&)
TrenderAction::doCommand(TargList&)
Mel_Command_Dispatch(SphNode*)
node_exec
sophia_call_executable
SophiaExecutable::evaluate(void*)
TcommandEngine::executeCommand(SophiaExecutable*, void*)
TelfEvalCmd::doCommand(TargList&)
Mel_Command_Dispatch(SphNode*)
node_exec
f_function_entry_node
node_exec
sophia_call_executable
SophiaExecutable::evaluate(void*)
TcommandEngine::executeCommand(SophiaExecutable*, void*)
TelfEvalCmd::doCommand(TargList&)

Result: /media/hda5/maya/projects/default/scenes/_Freela_Fabio/caixaAtash/caixaRenderFinal.ma
Attempting to save in
/usr/tmp/tauil.20070115.1224.ma
Writing crash report in /usr/tmp/tauil.20070115.1224.crash
tauil@tux:~$

[tempo500]

sorry, i dont know... if you can render a simple qube with mr - try minimizing your scene, file/optimize scene, reduce the features in the renderglobal, shading nodes, geometry. the last resort i can think of is exporting your selected objects to ma. phil

[apoclypse]

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.

[EvanPMeth]

I found this tutorial on installing maya 8 on kubuntu hope it helps!

http://www.wouz.dk/alias-maya-misc/maya-8-installation-under-kubuntu-6061-lts/

-EvanPMeth

[kreme-karamel]

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/<application> (fckeck, maya, imgcvt, Render) whereas the installer placed the autodesk directory under /usr/autodesk.

Rather than moving the autodesk directory to root and risk breaking something, I added a symbolic link in root with:

sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk /autodesk

That took care of the launch problem, however now I'm getting the following error:

apcw: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

Operating under the assumption that perhaps the libstdc++.so.6 library packaged with Maya was incompatible with my system, I linked maya's to the system's with:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.8 /usr/aw/maya/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.6

This generated a different error message:

usr/aw/maya8.5/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

I figured, I'd relink libgcc_s.so.1 as above with:

sudo ln -s /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/aw/maya/lib/libgcc_.so.1

This brought me right back where I started from with:

apcw: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

I'm stumped - any ideas?

[kreme-karamel]

On Autodesk's site (http://www.alias.com/eng/support/maya/qualified_hardware/QUAL/maya_85_linux.html) 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 http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/
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?

[number_six]

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.

Any ideas?

[vakont]

Hello friends,

My Maya so far works correctly except two parts: The fonts and Mental Ray. The font list is completely empty, nore can I select any font to create curves or polygons on nurbs... generally anything. But that is not what interests me right now.

As a professional 3D Artist, my main concern is Mental Ray. I use various versions of it, but we still have projects on version 7 that we wish to keep that way. I also adore the memory management of Linux that can make a big difference.

Ok, I am trying to utilize Maya 7 on my laptop, which has:
Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz
2GB RAM
nVidia 7950, 512MB Video RAM
Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10)

I have added permissions in /usr/aw folder and I have created a full permission tmp folder. I also checked the maya.rayrc file and all the paths point correctly. Just to make sure that the permissions were not the issue, I sudo ran Maya, but I got the very same results:

// Error: (Mayatomr.Export) : mental ray startup failed with errors //
// Info (Mayatomr): Aborted //
// Error: (mental ray) : failed to load library /usr/aw/maya7.0/mentalray/lib/mayahair.so (original name {MAYABASE}/lib/mayahair.{DSO}): /usr/aw/maya7.0/mentalray/lib/mayahair.so: undefined symbol: mi_db_access //
// Error: (mental ray) : failed to load library /usr/aw/maya7.0/mentalray/lib/subsurface.so (original name {MAYABASE}/lib/subsurface.{DSO}): /usr/aw/maya7.0/mentalray/lib/subsurface.so: undefined symbol: mi_img_get_depth //
// Error: (mental ray) : failed to load library /usr/aw/maya7.0/mentalray/lib/mayabase.so (original name {MAYABASE}/lib/mayabase.{DSO}): /usr/aw/maya7.0/mentalray/lib/mayabase.so: undefined symbol: mi_shaderstate_get //

Are there any suggestions on this?

Thanx for your time!

[LorenzoChomp]

vakont, I've solved that problem just creating an empty file named Mayatomr.sog in the plugings folder. The exact path on my system is :

/usr/aw/maya7.0/bin/plug-ins/Mayatomr.sog

Just create it in complete blank (i.e. using Vim), and then launch Maya again. Looks like when Maya finds this file empty, then it just fills the file with default settings.

By the way, also make sure of having the dir /usr/tmp with read/write permmisions for your user.

Almost forgot... Nice laptop!!

[kobalatse]

after installing nvidia drivers on my system the fontpaths are apperently mangled. Maya worked fine before that but I don't have a clue how to set font paths

sounds simple enough, how to go about it

[outtony]

if you have maya 8.5, you should do this before

sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk /autodesk

:guitar:

[gga73]

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?

[aphex_666]

.

[aphex_666]

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.

-P

websol:/usr/X11R6/lib# ls -la /usr/lib/ | grep libGL
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-01-14 02:15 libGLcore.so.1 -> libGLcore.so.1.0.8776
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8161228 2006-12-03 20:04 libGLcore.so.1.0.8776
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92120 2006-10-24 13:27 libGLEW.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-02-18 18:09 libGLEW.so -> libGLEW.so.1.3.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-02-18 18:09 libGLEW.so.1.3 -> libGLEW.so.1.3.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195624 2006-10-24 13:27 libGLEW.so.1.3.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2007-03-03 12:25 libGL.so -> /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-01-14 02:15 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.0.8776
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 543724 2006-12-03 20:04 libGL.so.1.0.8776
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 688008 2007-01-03 08:42 libGLU.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2007-02-14 16:32 libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-02-17 04:14 libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.060501
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 479244 2007-02-15 02:16 libGLU.so.1.3.060401
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 519844 2007-01-03 08:42 libGLU.so.1.3.060501
websol:/usr/X11R6/lib# rm /usr/lib/libGL.so
websol:/usr/X11R6/lib# ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.8776 /usr/lib/libGL.so

[aphex_666]

.

[kiaran]

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. 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 ***. :)

[tehquickness]

Did anyone find an answer as to why ./lmhostid can not see what the host id?
here is my output:

lmhostid - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is ""

There must be a way to solve this problem. Is there a way to see what settings the lmhostid is checking? I would love to solve this problem as I really need this for architecture studio class.

[mech7]

:) This works good for maya 8.5 the interface is damn ugly though under Linux:confused:

[Engnome]

:) This works good for maya 8.5 the interface is damn ugly though under Linux:confused:

Yup, maya uses openmotif which doesn't blend very well with GNOME (havent tried kde)

Does anyone get the "The main window is black after a menu has been closed" It's very annoying to have to pan or rotate to get rid of the black artifacts.

[dagooze]

I got the same stupit window problem as gga73 described.
The outliner, hypershade, ... always go away when working in the maya main window. Would be really kewl if some1 would come up with a solution for that so the child windows stay on top of the main window.

cheers

dagooze

[tempo500]

i still haven't entirely got used to the window focus thing... but i got used to it and it has some benefits too... anyway... i put a shortcut on fullscreen and "always on top" which can be found under the program icon on the left side of the window bar. phil

[dagooze]

This On Top thing is a good thing that helps ... but I don't get it with this shortcut.
when I restart maya I always have to go to the outliner, hypershade for a new round to make em stay on to of the viewport/main window.

thx

dagoose

[pgatrick]

Anyone have a problem with window contents being all messed up after scrolling? Any ideas how to fix it? Other parts of the display are sort of scrambled as well.. :confused:

[pgatrick]

Anyone have a problem with window contents being all messed up after scrolling? Any ideas how to fix it? Other parts of the display are sort of scrambled as well.. :confused:

Nevermind I got it fixed. :D Just had to disable compositing in my xorg.conf. :)

[affected]

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...

[jujoje]

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.

[thedaemon]

I don't have that crashing problem. I can bring up the menu just fine. Running Maya 8.5 and Feisty. Only problems I have so far is that the time slider doesn't get updated unless I click in its window.

[ZombieAcademy]

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.

[drfalkor]

Hi,
thnx for this great howto, but when i try to install it I get this error:

falkor@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i awcommon-server_10.80-14_i386.deb
(Leser database ... 126675 filer og kataloger er installerte.)
Gjør klar til å bytte ut awcommon-server 10.80-14 (ved bruk av awcommon-server_10.80-14_i386.deb) ...
Pakker ut erstatningen awcommon-server ...
/usr/bin/test: invalid integer «upgrade»
Setter opp awcommon-server (10.80-14) ...
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.


What can be wrong ?:O

[dagooze]

Hey all.
drfalkor I run into the same problem but maya8.5 runs fine with this install errors!

You can be sure that the sudo ln -s /usr/autodesk /autodesk does matter like hell !!! BIG THANKS ZombieAcademy, I was going crazy about the ln failures I got during maya setup. You saved my day!

cheers

dagoose

[Bart Simpson 18]

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

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5499540

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:

[fakie_flip]

What is Maya? Is it a game or something like blender?

[dagooze]

Hey,

Maya is something like Blender!

Does anyone of you guys know how to get the ctrl+shift+click combination to work to drag functions onto the shelf. I don't want to do that all manually ... will take ages.

Thanks a lot

[jujoje]

If I can remember correctly in linux the key combo is <alt>+<shift> + <lmb>

[jujoje]

Hi,

I'm trying to install maya 8.5 x64 and I'm getting the
sh: apcw: not found
error message. I notice that earlier in this thread a few people have come across it before. Does any one have any idea of how I can get around this error, or what is causing it?

[jujoje]

What do you know: I post and immediately afterwards get it working :)

All I did was copy the aw.dat to the /var/flexlm directory and all worked. the apcw is just the "install license" dialogue box so if the licence is already there it works fine.

[mikebelanger]

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) ...
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya' to `maya8.5': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/bin/maya' to `Maya8.5': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libgcc_s.so' to `libgcc_s.so.1': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libstdc++.so.6' to `libstdc++.so.6.0.6': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libstdc++.so' to `libstdc++.so.6.0.6': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libGLU.so.1' to `libGLU.so.1.3': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libpython2.4.so' to `libpython2.4.so.1.0': No such file or directory
sed: can't read /autodesk/maya8.5/mentalray/maya.rayrc: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayarender_with_mr: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayaexport_with_mr: No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/maya.rayrc' to `/autodesk/maya8.5/mentalray/maya.rayrc': No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/mayarender_with_mr' to `/autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayarender_with_mr': No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/mayaexport_with_mr' to `/autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayaexport_with_mr': No such file or directory
There may be a more recent license for this workstation available on the Autodesk
web site. Please visit the following URL to check for updated licenses:
http://www.autodesk.com/Maya-webkey


Now I just ignored this message and went ahead, installed the docs. They seemed to install fine.
So I create a link to the file Maya.bin. When I click on it, absolutely nothing happens.
When I try and execute 'Maya' in that same subdirectory I get a bouncing icon, that's it.
When I go in the consol and type it in, bash doesn't even recognize it.

But all the files appear to be there, so I'm a little confused.

HELP!

[mikebelanger]

oops! Spoke too soon!

I made the silly mistake of not having csh.
For those having the problem above, just run a

sudo apt-get csh

Hehe Maya worked fine after that.
So yeah just do what was mentioned a few pages before and make sure csh is installed if you had my problem.

[mech7]

does anybody know how to install sp1 for ubuntu?

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=9627807&linkID=9242259

[unlotto]

does anybody know how to install sp1 for ubuntu?

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=9627807&linkID=9242259

I've install sp1 on a 64bit ubuntu, using much the same approach as explained here. AWCommon will most likely fail on first install attempt. Remove its status from nano /var/lib/dpkg/status and you should succeed. I don't remember where I read this. Remember sp1 is not an update per se. It's a whole new full-rpm

[steigleitung]

I installed Maya 8.5. It works fine so far, I am wondering however how to use command line batch rendering. On Windows, it's just entering "render file.mb". There is a "Render" binary (?) in Maya's /bin directory, but I can't get it to work ("bash: Render: command not found"). I'm really not much of a Linux user, can anybody tell me how to do this?

[mayamaniac]

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) ...
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya' to `maya8.5': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/bin/maya' to `Maya8.5': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libgcc_s.so' to `libgcc_s.so.1': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libstdc++.so.6' to `libstdc++.so.6.0.6': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libstdc++.so' to `libstdc++.so.6.0.6': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libGLU.so.1' to `libGLU.so.1.3': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libpython2.4.so' to `libpython2.4.so.1.0': No such file or directory
sed: can't read /autodesk/maya8.5/mentalray/maya.rayrc: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayarender_with_mr: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayaexport_with_mr: No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/maya.rayrc' to `/autodesk/maya8.5/mentalray/maya.rayrc': No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/mayarender_with_mr' to `/autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayarender_with_mr': No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/mayaexport_with_mr' to `/autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayaexport_with_mr': No such file or directory
There may be a more recent license for this workstation available on the Autodesk
web site. Please visit the following URL to check for updated licenses:
http://www.autodesk.com/Maya-webkey

Edit; just posted and saw mikebelanger's post on top with the same error, so I'm trying that fix he posted. I did an "sudo apt-get install csh" and it said I already have the newest one. I ran the maya install command again and it still gave the same error. Any other ideas?

[mikebelanger]

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. 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.
.

[unlotto]

Are any of you having issues with Maya and importing wav files? I got it to work in i386, (by system linking libaudiofile.so)

on amd64 (and 64bit maya) it imports, but the sound is all scrambled and won't playback properly.

Same thing happens on a variety of other distro's like Fedora Core 7 and CentOS 5 and OpenSuse 10.2

without sound, maya is useless to our animators.

[mayamaniac]

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) ...
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya' to `maya8.5': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/bin/maya' to `Maya8.5': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libgcc_s.so' to `libgcc_s.so.1': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libstdc++.so.6' to `libstdc++.so.6.0.6': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libstdc++.so' to `libstdc++.so.6.0.6': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libGLU.so.1' to `libGLU.so.1.3': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libpython2.4.so' to `libpython2.4.so.1.0': No such file or directory
sed: can't read /autodesk/maya8.5/mentalray/maya.rayrc: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayarender_with_mr: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayaexport_with_mr: No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/maya.rayrc' to `/autodesk/maya8.5/mentalray/maya.rayrc': No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/mayarender_with_mr' to `/autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayarender_with_mr': No such file or directory
mv: cannot move `/tmp/mayaexport_with_mr' to `/autodesk/maya8.5/bin/unsupported/mayaexport_with_mr': No such file or directory
There may be a more recent license for this workstation available on the Autodesk
web site. Please visit the following URL to check for updated licenses:
http://www.autodesk.com/Maya-webkey

When I try to run maya.bin from csh, I get this:
% ./maya.bin
./maya.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libirc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried the permission thing for /usr/tmp, but it doesn't seem to help. Any ideas why it is not working?

[mayamaniac]

It's working now. Instead of running maya.bin, I ran ./Maya8.5 and that works. Now to test if everything is working like the Windows version.

First difference is the camera keys, the alt key just drags the window around (ubuntu default key to move windows), so to get the camera dolly, pan, and zoom tools, I have to hold down both the windows key and alt.

[arsui]

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 ?
Thanks
(谢谢)

[szr4321]

dpkg: error processing awcommon_10.80-2_i386.deb (--install):
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2
(谢谢)
Try sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/awcommon.postrmand then remove / reinstall the awcommon package.

[arsui]

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... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libopenexr2c2a libsm-dev libarts1c2a kdelibs4c2a libice-dev
x11proto-xext-dev libatk1.0-dev x11proto-kb-dev libglib2.0-dev
x11proto-xinerama-dev libpango1.0-dev g++-4.1 x11proto-render-dev
kdelibs-data libxi-dev libxrender-dev liblualib50 libpcre3 libcairo2-dev
libxdmcp-dev libpng12-dev libstdc++6-4.1-dev libfontconfig1-dev xtrans-dev
x11proto-core-dev libxcursor-dev libavahi-qt3-1 x11proto-randr-dev
libxext-dev zlib1g-dev x11proto-input-dev libfreetype6-dev
x11proto-fixes-dev libxau-dev libxrandr-dev libexpat1-dev libxft-dev
libx11-dev libqt3-mt liblua50 libxfixes-dev libxinerama-dev
libid3-3.8.3c2a
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
awcommon
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 3957kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 151311 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing awcommon ...
test: 7: remove: bad number
exit: 8: Illegal number: -0
dpkg: error processing awcommon (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
awcommon
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

and in the Synaptic, i can open and mark the awcommon and awcommon-server as remove, but when apply, it told me

------------------------------
sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libopenexr2c2a libsm-dev libarts1c2a kdelibs4c2a libice-dev
x11proto-xext-dev libatk1.0-dev x11proto-kb-dev libglib2.0-dev
x11proto-xinerama-dev libpango1.0-dev g++-4.1 x11proto-render-dev
kdelibs-data libxi-dev libxrender-dev liblualib50 libpcre3 libcairo2-dev
libxdmcp-dev libpng12-dev libstdc++6-4.1-dev libfontconfig1-dev xtrans-dev
x11proto-core-dev libxcursor-dev libavahi-qt3-1 x11proto-randr-dev
libxext-dev zlib1g-dev x11proto-input-dev libfreetype6-dev
x11proto-fixes-dev libxau-dev libxrandr-dev libexpat1-dev libxft-dev
libx11-dev libqt3-mt liblua50 libxfixes-dev libxinerama-dev
libid3-3.8.3c2a
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
awcommon
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 3957kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 151311 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing awcommon ...
test: 7: remove: bad number
exit: 8: Illegal number: -0
dpkg: error processing awcommon (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
awcommon
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
i sorry, i don't know which message is the key, so i past all. :D


add: sorry, now the 'awcommon' had remove, but the when i try 'sudo apt-get auto remove' it tips :
--------------------------------------
sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up aksusbd-suse (1.7-3) ...
cat: /etc/SuSE-release: No such file or directory
[: 31: 8: unexpected operator
[: 31: 8: unexpected operator
/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)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
i can install maya7 again now?

add info : i had install, but not very good, often quit it self. i think maybe conflict with other software

[szr4321]

/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.

[arsui]

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.

thanks all !

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

[thedaemon]

It's working now. Instead of running maya.bin, I ran ./Maya8.5 and that works. Now to test if everything is working like the Windows version.

First difference is the camera keys, the alt key just drags the window around (ubuntu default key to move windows), so to get the camera dolly, pan, and zoom tools, I have to hold down both the windows key and alt.

Change the settings for gnome to move windows. I changed it to Super+mouse button. Super is the windows key.

[szr4321]

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?

[arsui]

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

[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 (http://www.alias.com/glb/eng/support/product_support.jsp?itemId=5200001) if you haven't already.

[arsui]

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.

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 (http://www.alias.com/glb/eng/support/product_support.jsp?itemId=5200001) if you haven't already.

thanks all, i will do it!

[alanf]

I got Maya 8.5 up and running. Thanks for the great how-to! :D

Now, I realised that I needed to free the Alt key hotkeys (like to move/resize windows) and so I did, switching it to my Winkey. However, I missed one, but I can't seem to find where to change its setting... and that is when you Alt+rightclick on a window.

Where do I get rid of that or change it to something else?? :confused:

[alanf]

Found it!

In gconf-editor, at /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/window_menu_button

Woohoo! :D

[svigno]

Use WindowMaker ten times faster than gnome ...

[wntrmt]

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 (http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/index.php?topic=15503.0) and Wiki, (http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/index.php?topic=15503.0) they say you need i386 versions of libraries libXp.so.6 libuuid.so.1 libfam.so.0. So I downloaded them from http://packages.ubuntu.com/ 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?


Wntrmt

[wntrmt]

No one??

There are some people on this thread that are running Maya 64 on amd64, did you find any of this problems I mentioned? I was trying the latest Maya 8.5...

I wonder, if I install it on Fedora will it run out of the box?

[P4VV37]

Maya crashes on startup :[
I had a problem with /usr/lib/libGLU.so so I did:
cp libGLU.so.1.3 /usr/lib/libGLU.so
and
cp libGLU.so.1.3 /autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libGLU.so
now I've got other problem:

/autodesk/maya8.5/bin/maya.bin: symbol lookup error: /autodesk/maya8.5/lib/libHWRenderMaya.so: undefined symbol: _ZN18GLParticleDrawBase21setMaterialPropertiesEfRN 7awColor5ColorES2_S2_S2_


;(

What can I do? :confused:


Maya 8.5 and Kubuntu 7.04

[ydiaz]

Hi guys, I managed to install Maya 8.5 on a Feisty AMD64 correctly but as other people have stated in this thread it's impossible to import and work with sounds correctly. I had to move to windows because of this only detail. I've tried to link the library and Maya does not complain but I can't hear the sound on playblasts or scrubbing.

Anyone, please, has any idea how to sort this last hurdle?

Thanks.

[Nisroc]

I'm getting this error message when trying to run Maya 8.5 after following the instructions in the tutorial (64 bit system):

apcw: error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've checked if it is installed and everything seams to be in working order.
I really hope some one can help me!

Thanks in advance :)
-Ian

[Nisroc]

bump.

Please. I really need help with this

[qzr]

Great work!! 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 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=373087
for better 3d performance

And all of the wacky graphics are gone.
Thx m8!
I am now getting rid of window$ :))

[tempo500]

apcw: error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

hi,

i had this problem at work, and right now dont have acces to this information... but i know you are missing a package and my guess would be:ia32-libs

so now to my problem.... i have been using maya in production now for a year, and everything was good untill a few days ago... maya works, render window works, just batch rendering gives me a signal 11 error. couldnt fix it - installed a fresh ubuntu system(i dared to install gutsy...) batch rendering worked again, finished my scene, and the same thing again... maybe someone knows how to fix this...

ok...update.... i am middle in a production so it was quicker to reinstall ubuntu... so now i know its not a new package cause i updated gutsy with all new packages and maya is rendering just fine. so i am not sure what causes maya to crash in batch mode, the first time it happend on feisty, i was just working with the usual progs no updates no new progs, no messing around... batch crash...reinstalled ubuntu renderd fine, installed the remaining progs, same thing... third reinstall, clean system updated packages. maya and shake... everything good.. i will pay attention to the batch render after i install something new... my feeling tells me i will be posting again tomorrow.... :-/ my next try would be to install a 32bit ubuntu? i never had this problem just appeard a few days ago, there is a similar thread at autodesk. http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=591260

thanks for any info, phil

here is the feedback

export MAYA_DEBUG_ENABLE_CRASH_REPORTING=1
phil@workstation:~/maya/projects/3d_coffee/scenes$ ./rnd.sh
// Using temp file "/usr/tmp/ASTMP7iijl2.mel"

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Starting Mel program

proc renderIt(string $name) {

string $opt=""; string $rl=""; string $rp=""; int $renderThreads = 2; float $resize=-1.; miLoadMayatomr; miCreateDefaultNodes(); select defaultRenderGlobals; setAttr .renderAll 1; // Before all flags

workspace -rt "images" "/home/phil/maya/projects/3d_coffee/images";workspace -rt "depth" "/home/phil/maya/projects/3d_coffee/images";; // For flag -rd

makeCameraRenderable("cam16_9E"); // For flag -cam

removeRenderLayerAdjustmentAndUnlock .animation; setAttr .animation 1; removeRenderLayerAdjustmentAndUnlock .startFrame; setAttr .startFrame 1; // For flag -s

removeRenderLayerAdjustmentAndUnlock .animation; setAttr .animation 1; removeRenderLayerAdjustmentAndUnlock .endFrame; setAttr .endFrame 175; // For flag -e

setMayaSoftwareLayers($rl, $rp); miCreateMentalJobs(); setImageSizePercent($resize); mayaBatchRenderProcedure(0, "", "", "mentalRay", $opt); ; // After all flags

}

//
// Main part
//

string $sceneName = "master008.mb";

string $checkScene = `file -q -sn`;
if ($checkScene=="") {
quit -abort -force -exitCode 209;
error ("Cannot load scene \""+$sceneName+"\". Please check the scene name.");
} else if (catch(`renderIt($sceneName)`)) {
quit -abort -force -exitCode 210;
error ("Scene "+$sceneName+" failed to render.\n");
} else {
print ("Scene "+$sceneName+" completed.\n");
quit -abort -force -exitCode 0; // Exit Maya
}

// Ending Mel program
// Maya file is "master008.mb"

Starting "/usr/autodesk/maya8.5-x64/bin/maya"
Arg[1]="-batch"
Arg[2]="-file"
Arg[3]="master008.mb"
Arg[4]="-script"
Arg[5]="/usr/tmp/ASTMP7iijl2.mel"
Arg[6]="-proj"
Arg[7]="/home/phil/maya/projects/3d_coffee"


maya encountered a fatal error

Signal: 11 (Unknown Signal)
Stack trace:
/lib/libc.so.6 [0x2aade5e2f760]
XtAppAddWorkProc
TeventHandler::addIdleEventTimer()
TeventHandler::addIdleCommand(Taction*, TidleCommandPriority, unsigned short)
TeventHandler::addIdleCommand(Taction*, TidleCommandPriority)
TidleTrigger::addClientHook(Tclient*, Tmetaclass*)
TclientServer::addClient(Tclient*, Tmetaclass*, void (*)(Tclient*, TclientServer*, TserverMsg const&))
MEventMessage::addEventCallback(MString const&, void (*)(void*), void*, MStatus*)
initializePlugin(MObject)
Tplugin::load(Tstring const&, Tstring*)
TloadPluginAction::loadPlugin(TfilePath const&, Tstring const&, bool, Tstring&)
TloadPluginAction::execute(TargList&)
TloadPluginAction::doCommand(TargList&)
Mel_Command_Dispatch(SphNode*)
node_exec
f_catch
f_not
fc_if
node_exec
fc_ifelse
node_exec
f_function_entry_node
node_exec
sophia_call_executable
SophiaExecutable::evaluate(void*)
TcommandEngine::executeCommand(Tstring const&, bool, bool, TmelCmdResult*, unsigned int)
TscriptAction::doIt(Tevent const&)
TevalDeferredAction::doCommand(TargList&)
Mel_Command_Dispatch(SphNode*)
node_exec

Fatal Error. Attempting to save in /usr/tmp/phil.20070815.1730.ma
Writing crash report in /usr/tmp/phil.20070815.1730.crash
// Maya exited with status 1

[sciclone]

we are facing wiered problem hope there is the solution for missing paths and text inside render globals script editor file open dialogue etc almost every creation menu rest everything is fine

[boob11]

Thank you man

[tempo500]

hi!

i found the problem! i recently bought myself a spacenavigator from 3dconexxion. they have linux drivers and linux maya plugins. well... the maya plugin caused the problem. for more details got to http://www.3dconnexion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5844#5844 (http://http://www.3dconnexion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5844#5844)
once again.... it wasnt linux... phil

[jorosy]

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.

[jorosy]

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.

[P4VV37]

I can't update maya 8.5 to service pack 1
I've downloaded file and used alien.
I've got this error:
(sorry, I can't translate it to English)
sudo dpkg -i maya8-5_8.5-145_i386.deb
Password:
(Odczytywanie bazy danych ... 176521 plików i katalogów obecnie zainstalowanych.)
Rozpakowanie maya8-5 (z maya8-5_8.5-145_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: błąd przetwarzania maya8-5_8.5-145_i386.deb (--install):
próba nadpisania `/usr/autodesk/maya8.5/ExternalWebBrowser/MacOS/McpPlugIn.plugin/Contents/MacOS/McpPlugIn', który istnieje także w pakiecie maya
dpkg-deb: podproces paste został zabity sygnałem (Broken pipe)
Wystąpiły błędy podczas przetwarzania:
maya8-5_8.5-145_i386.deb


Translated to English:
[...]
dpkg error when transforming maya8-5_8.5-145_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/autodesk/maya8.5/ExternalWebBrowser/MacOS/McpPlugIn.plugin/Contents/MacOS/McpPlugIn', Witch exist also in package maya
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
there was errors when transforming
maya8-5_8.5-145_i386.deb


wtf is wrong??

Sorry for my English :mad:

[HuitZiloP]

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:

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=508762

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?

[SreckoMicic]

I installed Maya 8 without any problem thanks to this thread.
Now I want to install SP1.
How can I, or do I need at all, to uninstall previous version of Maya and awcommon?
Will this do the trick?
sudo dpkg -r package_name

EDIT: Solved it, using Synaptic :), now can use latest edition, yeah.
BTW if you ran on awcommon uninstall problem just modify status file, and manually remove awcommon entry, as stated here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=545055&highlight=maya+install)

[skullmunky]

MMB drag freeze

I have the same problem as jorosy - MMB drag in hypershade freezes when you release. Alt-Tab to another window and back unfreezes it.

maya 8.5, kubuntu feisty, quadrofx 1400. CIOVerlay is on and Composite is Disable. everything else works fine - even sound scrubbing :)

[tempo500]

MMB drag in hypershade freezes when you release
strange.... maya 8.5, quadro 1500 ubuntu feisty.... works fine.... maybe try to put this in your maya.env file under home/maya

MAYA_MMSET_DEFAULT_XCURSOR=1

so i also have a problem... posted this on a few maya scripting forums but no reply untill now... maybe there is someone with mel knowledge... this script works great under windows but wont work under linux, my guess is this callback funktion which opens the filebrowser to select a directory. this would be great if someone comes up with a solution. this script should write blendshape information into a file to be imported as animated blendshapes. please.... thanks, phil

error: DSO <libSharedUI.so> faild to load properly or perhaps commandList is incorrect.

i dont have any mel experience but it looks like somethings wrong with the fileBrowserDialog function...

global proc exportBlends (){
fileBrowserDialog -mode 4 -fc "exportCallback" -an "Pick Your Blend Shape Directory";
return;
}

global proc exportCallback(string $path, string $mode){
print ("this is the dir path: " + $path + "\n");
string $objs[] = `ls -sl`;
for ($obj in $objs){
select $obj;
file -es -type "mayaAscii" ($path + "/" + $obj);
delete $obj;
print "successfully exported objects! \n";
}
}

[Asparatame]

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

[fktt]

hmm.. did you make the symbolic links before installing?

[Asparatame]

Yeah I did...

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

[fktt]

ahh, you need to create and 'sudo chmod 777' the flexlm folder before installing(iirc) ;)

allso:

Warning: Unable to locate the chkconfig utility!

perhaps you should allso check on that one.. :)

edit: oh, and are you trying to install 8.0/8.5?

[Asparatame]

Yeah I'm trying to install maya 8.0.

And you did mean create and use sudo chmod 777 on /var/flexlm right?
Because if you did it's still not working... getting the same issues as before :(

[fktt]

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.. hmmh..


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! :)

[tempo500]

[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!!
sudo dpkg -i awcommon-server_
sudo dpkg -i awcommon_
sudo dpkg -i maya
sudo dpkg -i maya-docs-en-us_
----------------------------------------------#install license
sudo cp aw.dat /var/flexlm
sudo mkdir /usr/tmp
sudo chmod 777 /usr/tmp
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------maya mental ray satellite setup
/etc/services
port:7054
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CURSOR PROBLEM
add the line: MAYA_MMSET_DEFAULT_XCURSOR=1 in the /home/user/maya/7.0/Maya.env file
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MAYA BG COLOR
sudo gedit /usr/autodesk/maya/app-defaults/MayaScheme
*basicBackground: #525252
Maya*Background: #525252
*textForeground: #bfbfbf
textFieldBackground: #4b4b57
*readOnlyBackground: #666666
*textBackground: #666666


/media/ohdb/SYSTEM/maya_stuff/linux_admin/MayaScheme
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MAYA FONT ISSUE
sudo gedit /usr/autodesk/maya/app-defaults/MayaScheme
*extraLargeBoldLabelFont: -*-clean-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*largeBoldLabelFont: -*-clean-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*boldLabelFont: -*-clean-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*smallBoldLabelFont: -*-clean-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*tinyBoldLabelFont: -*-clean-medium-r-normal-*-8-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*plainLabelFont: -*-clean-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*smallPlainLabelFont: -*-clean-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*obliqueLabelFont: -*-clean-medium-i-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*smallObliqueLabelFont: -*-clean-medium-i-normal-*-8-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*fixedWidthFont: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallFixedWidthFont: -*-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

*extraLargeBoldLabelFont: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*largeBoldLabelFont: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*boldLabelFont: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallBoldLabelFont: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*tinyBoldLabelFont: -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*plainLabelFont: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallPlainLabelFont: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*obliqueLabelFont: -*-helvetica-bold-o-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallObliqueLabelFont: -*-helvetica-bold-o-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*fixedWidthFont: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
*smallFixedWidthFont: -*-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WINDOW STAY ON TOP
gconf-editor
/apps/metacity/window_keybindings/toggle_above - toggle_fullscreen

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------create text issue
sudo apt-get install t1-xfree86-nonfree
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------xorg composite off!!
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

----------------------------------------------#scrabbled window content
Section "Screen" -> xorg.conf
...
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
Option "DamageEvents" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "on"
Option "NvAGP" "1"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"

[banda]

i have installed maya 2008 here on my system .. and it is working without a hitch.. no crashes.. rendering proper.... w+lmb fixed

thanks for the great howto... even let a linux noob like me do it... Thanks!

[banda]

ooops... 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....)