Problems with Maya6 on Debian / unstable

[stalin]

hi,

after hours i am still not able to get maya run on debian/ unstable.
even maya5 nor maya6.

there are a lot of tips in the forum, but no one works for me or i am just too blind and stupid...

...however, PLEASE, could anybody out there running maya 5 and 6 on sarge or sid help with a step by step how-to for each one?!

my system:
debian testing/unstable
kernel 2.6.5
nvidia-card with nvidia-driver installed

my tries:
=> convert and install with alien
=> append setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1 to /usr/aw/maya6.0/bin/Maya6.0
=> cp /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/aw/maya6.0/lib/
=> cp /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libstdc++.so.27 /usr/aw/maya6.0/lib/libstdc++.so.5
=> ldconfig -v /usr/aw/maya6.0/lib

now maya ends with a segmentation fault error and i got no more ideas left... i have never ever seen a boot-splash or anything else.

please, could someone help me? there must be a way to get it run!
i know it!!! and i want it!!! hrrrrrr!!!!

THX

Jan

[agentex]

Try to move the native libgcc_s.so.1 that they included with 5.0 out of the maya lib directory. Also when installing try using alien --script or alien -c to make sure that the debian package has all the symlinks setup properly. (Thanks to caerth for troubleshooting and solving that one!)

Keep us up to date.

[stalin]

hi there,

thx for help! now i can see the bootsplash... but nothing more.

what i did:

=>convert with alien -c (works great!!)
=>move /usr/aw/maya5.0/liblibgcc.so.1 to out of the directory
=>cp /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/aw/maya5.0/lib/
=>append setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1 to /usr/aw/maya6.0/bin/Maya6.0
=>append /usr/aw/maya5.0/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf
=>ldconfig -v /usr/aw/maya5.0/lib
=>run as normal user /usr/aw/maya/bin/maya

now maya starts up, but crashes with =>Signal: 6 (Unknown Signal)
the problem obviously is the libgcc, but what did i wrong?

THX again

jan

[dreston]

Hi!
I'm currently running fine maya 6 on my Debian unstable with kernel 2.6.5.
I didn't do nothing special:
_converted the rpms in deb with alien;
_installed the packages;
_Here I've got a problem: libfam.so.0 were missing, so I grabbed libfam* libraries from Knoppix 3.4 iso and copied them in my /usr/lib/ folder; then I redo the simlinks in /usr/aw/maya6.0/lib/ to libfam.so.0;
Nothing more...now I've a videocard issue: when I maximize my viewports opengl causes problem...but maya run fine itself!
Ah, when I created my Debian I start from woody and then upgrade all with apt-get....maybe this could help.
Bye

[agentex]

Theres no need to copy the Debian libgcc back into the Maya lib dir, let Maya read it globally.

As for video card issues there have been discussions on the different cards in threads relating to other distributions, for the most part I think that the vendor drivers will interact the same all around, might want to check them out.

[mobrien]

Hola~

I'm also trying to get Maya 6.0 to work. I used alien to conver the rpms, and then installed them. I also installed the openmotif rpm that ships with Maya 6.0.

Maya's spash screen starts, but Maya cores before the main window appears with:

Maya ®, Version 6.0, 2004 04 12 12 41
Copyright 1997-2004 Alias Systems, a division of Silicon Graphics Limited.
All rights reserved.

Graph Layout Toolkit
Copyright 1992-1997 Tom Sawyer Software, Berkeley, California
All rights reserved.

Mozilla Open Source Project
Copyright © 1998-2004 by Contributors to the Mozilla codebase under the Mozilla Public License.
Source code may be found at www.mozilla.org/source.html
The Mozilla Public License may be found at www.mozilla.org/MPL/
All Rights Reserved.

maya encountered a fatal error

Signal: 6 (Unknown Signal)
Stack trace:
/lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x45496825]
/lib/libc.so.6 [0x4537b658]
raise
gsignal
abort
/usr/aw/maya6.0/lib/libExtensionLayer.so [0x4215d2cd]
XtAppError
/usr/aw/maya6.0/lib/lib3dGraphics.so [0x42b2ee59]
/usr/aw/maya6.0/lib/lib3dGraphics.so [0x42b2e337]
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 [0x45154a3a]
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 [0x45154fe7]
_XtCreateWidget
XtCreateWidget
_ZN7T3dPort18constructOSControlEP10_WidgetRecPKc
_ZN8Tcontrol16constructControlEPKc
_ZN7T3dPort13constructPortEPKc
_ZN7T3dPortC2ER14TcontrolLayoutPKc
_ZN9TtimePortC2ER14TcontrolLayoutPKcbb
_ZN12TtimeControlC1ER14TcontrolLayoutPKc7Tstringb
_ZN15TtimeControlCmd11makeControlEv
_ZN18TiceControlBaseCmd7makeObjEv
_ZN11TiceBaseCmd8doCreateEv
_ZN11TiceBaseCmd9doCommandER8TargList
_Z20Mel_Command_DispatchP7SphNode
f_assign
node_exec
node_exec
sophia_call_executable
_ZN16SophiaExecutable8evaluateEPv
_ZN14TcommandEngine14executeCommandEP16SophiaExecutablePv

so.6(_XtCreateWidget+0xdf) [0x4515542f]Attempting to save in
/usr/tmp/mobrien.20040525.0942.ma
Writing crash report in /usr/tmp/mobrien.20040525.0942.crash

which makes me think it's a problem with Xt. If I look at the version of Xt that I have installed:

% dpkg --search /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
libxt6: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
% dpkg -l libxt6 | tail -1
ii  libxt6            4.3.0.dfsg.1-1    X Toolkit Intrinsics

If I go to a RH system where Maya 6.0 works I get:

% rpm --query --file /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
XFree86-libs-4.1.0-15

Anyone tried installing or have an older version of libXt installed on a Debian system?

MO

[daw]

i did all that you guys did before... but when i run ./Maya6.0 script to run Maya, i get the Configuration Wizard screen with no tasks!!! then i cannot proceed to run Maya!!!! Anyone knows what is that?