I'm a newbe to renderman and so on..
When I try to render (in 3ds max, maxman) something even an ordinary sphere, I get errors saying:
An application exception has occurred in PRMAN.EXE.
Error codes: 0x0058E061 0xC0000096 0x00000000
Render complete
I checked the troubleshooting guide in Maxman help... but everything is configured ok in my opinion.