Autodesk Maya freezes when assigning a material

[TheOm3ga]

Hi all,

I finally managed to install Autodesk Maya 8.5 on Ubuntu. The program works very well, I'd say even better than in Windows. BUT there's a problem I've just come across: When I try to assign a material to an object (which is a rather basic and common action), the program exits with no saving possibility. I've tried to reproduce the error launching maya from the console, in order to see the output. This is what it says:

om3@fijo:~$ maya

mental ray for Maya 9.0
mental ray: version 3.6.1.6, 17 Jul 2007, revision 21668
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Cause of memory exception
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14.914 Mb Free Memory
0.000 Mb Free Swap
18.000 Mb Size of alloc
10.000 Mb Low Memory Threshold
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Memory use when exception was thrown
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182.073 Mb Peak total size(Estimated)
72.773 Mb Peak arena size
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45.300 Mb Heap
0.107 Mb arguments
32.812 Mb MEL
0.001 Mb POLY_DRAW_CACHE_DATA
36.279 Mb Pixel Map
0.000 Mb POLY_DRAW_CACHE_STATIC_DATA
3.336 Mb Render Cache
0.312 Mb Data Blocks
0.125 Mb Transforms
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terminate called after throwing an instance of 'TmemoryException'

maya encountered a fatal error

Signal: 6 (Unknown Signal)
Fatal Error. Attempting to save in /usr/tmp/om3.20080821.1210.ma


Looks like the file created in /usr/tmp is a backup of the scene.

What can I do? I don't want to get back to windows just to use one program. However, I'll try to check the performance in virtualbox and see if it works there.

Thanks in advance.

[aeiah]

how much ram does your machine have? because its only saying 14mb free on that error log so it seems pretty much like a standard run-out-of-ram error, although when i used to use it i never ran out of ram, it'd just slow down loads when it struggled with complicated stuff. does this not happen on the windows version then?

you'll probably have more luck on a maya forum than here. i doubt many people on here use maya in linux.

you may have luck with a virtual machine, but you'll have to make sure the virtualisation software you're using allows for windows guests to utilise hardware opengl, else it'll be useless.

the leading ones for linux are virtualbox, xen, kvm and vmware.

[TheOm3ga]

Hi aeiah, thanks for your answer.

I have 1GiB DDR, Maya runs really fast and without a glitch on Windows. I tried using it in virtualbox but the performance made it useless.

I've been googling around and looks like there's no known solution to this problem so I'll continue using it on my Windows partition.