[bjames]

Power animator attempts to open, then disappears.  The console reports the following:


___Insufficient virtual memory (that means swap, not virtual swap)___Location:
0
Memory used so far = Mb
Aligned bytes requested: 16 (0.00Mb)
Arena size being allocated to satisfy request: 0(Mb)
Swap reportedly available: 257782128 (Mb)
Memory reportedly available: 3932569600 (Mb)
Total Memory + Swap reportedly available: 0 (3750.39)
Bp->size = 16 (Mb)
Return codes... swapctl: 0 sysmp(A): 280 sysmp(B): 0
Error: cannot perform calloc 

I don’t know what “calloc” means, maybe this is the proble.  BTW maya starts up fine, so does composer 5.5.

I increased my swap file to 512mb, but that doesn’t seem to help.

Power animator was working fine up until today.  The only changes to the system was messing around with getting Jaleo configured... mostly to do with the digital video board.

[dexter1]

calloc is a C function requesting a block of memory with all entries initialized to zero.

From the error message it wants to allocate 16 bytes? Surely there should be sufficient memory or swap available...

Could be that there are environment settings messing up the start of power animator. Do other users also have the same experience with power animator?

[bjames]

Now its working. I didnt do anything to the operating system, but instead was running installs of other applications (windows 95 based) and reinstalled Softwindows95.

I thought I would give PA another shot and it opened up this time. I am wondering if the multiple restarts of the Octane cleared off some resident apps. Oh.. I uninstalled Sonic's USP drivers for Discreet that automatically start on system startup. I cant think of anything else that might have cleared the log jam.

[gijoe77]

I had this problem from time to time.  On my o2 I think I can't launch PowerAnimator 9.7, I have never been able to figure out how fix it.  I had a similar problem on my Tezro and one time I uninstalled/reinstalled and it fixed the issue, another time I had to rerun rqsall on everything and it fixed the issue.

There are two ways I went about trying to do this - for the entire system:

Code:

cp /var/inst/.rqsfiles t

rqsall -force -o t -update_registry /usr/lib/so_locations -update_registry_64 /usr/lib64/so_locations t
# Make sure t is not empty!

cp t t1

rqsall -rescan -same_age -force -move -o t2 t1
# Make sure t2 is not empty!

cp t2 /var/inst/.rqsfiles

or just the Alias files:

Code:

ldd /usr/aw/alias9.0/bin/.Alias | cut -d'>' -f2- > /tmp/alias.txt
for f in `cat /tmp/alias.txt`; do
rqs -m -f -l 0xa000000 $f
done

[Intuition]

Was able to get PowerAnimator Running on my Octane this weekend.

Though it would run the splash window and then never launch. I tried running the alias9acctsetup app and upon start it ran one time.

I went through a test run tutorial. Running through my routines making shapes then trying to do an old model a mouse tutorial. It worked well.
Then ran a render setup and lighting test with an area light.

Worked rather well. Thought I'll then do a tutorial. I closed all the windows and when I tried to restart the program it did the same thing where it ran the splash page and then would disappear.

I am at work now but I am hoping that this set of commands posted here by GIJoe77 will help it be able to start again. With Maya you can get a corrupted preferences. Was thinking something similar happened.

I can do the tutorial with Alias 11 but feel like I should do a proper Power Animator release. Plus I noticed that Power Animator's renderer was a bit more appealing the way it soft shades.

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[Intuition]

So I am getting the same error as above.

Memory used so far = Mb
Aligned bytes requested: 2176 ( 0.00Mb)
Arena size being allocated to satisfy request: 0 (Mb)
Swap reportedly available: 2147251887 (Mb)
Memory reportedly available: 268271616 (Mb)
Total Memory+Swap reportedly available: 0 ( 255.84)
Bp->size = 4096 (Mb)
Return Codes... swapctl: 0 sysmp(A): 280 sysmp(B): 0
___Insufficient Virtual Memory (that means swap, not virtual swap)___ Location:
0
Memory used so far = Mb
Aligned bytes requested: 2176 ( 0.00Mb)
Arena size being allocated to satisfy request: 0 (Mb)
Swap reportedly available: 260595804 (Mb)
Memory reportedly available: 268271616 (Mb)
Total Memory+Swap reportedly available: 0 ( 255.84)
Bp->size = 4096 (Mb)
Return Codes... swapctl: 0 sysmp(A): 280 sysmp(B): 0
___Insufficient Virtual Memory (that means swap, not virtual swap)___ Location:
0
Memory used so far = Mb
Aligned bytes requested: 2176 ( 0.00Mb)
Arena size being allocated to satisfy request: 0 (Mb)
Swap reportedly available: 178575856 (Mb)
Memory reportedly available: 268271616 (Mb)
Total Memory+Swap reportedly available: 0 ( 255.84)
Bp->size = 4096 (Mb)
Return Codes... swapctl: 0 sysmp(A): 280 sysmp(B): 0
___Insufficient Virtual Memory (that means swap, not virtual swap)___ Location:
0
Memory used so far = Mb
Aligned bytes requested: 928 ( 0.00Mb)
Arena size being allocated to satisfy request: 0 (Mb)
Swap reportedly available: 2147421096 (Mb)
Memory reportedly available: 268271616 (Mb)
Total Memory+Swap reportedly available: 0 ( 255.84)
Bp->size = 1024 (Mb)
Return Codes... swapctl: 0 sysmp(A): 280 sysmp(B): 0
___Insufficient Virtual Memory (that means swap, not virtual swap)___ Location:
0
Memory used so far = Mb
Aligned bytes requested: 16 ( 0.00Mb)
Arena size being allocated to satisfy request: 0 (Mb)
Swap reportedly available: 257782128 (Mb)
Memory reportedly available: 268271616 (Mb)
Total Memory+Swap reportedly available: 0 ( 255.84)
Bp->size = 16 (Mb)
Return Codes... swapctl: 0 sysmp(A): 280 sysmp(B): 0
Error: Cannot perform calloc


It spits this out.

I ran the code GIJoe posted to try and clear out the rqsall
Still not launching

[Irinikus]

I've got it up and running on my Tezro (Its been running since I installed IRIX on this machine!)

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It's also rocking on the "Rocktane"!

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The common denominator here must be the way I installed IRIX on these two machines!

Here's the video showing how I did it:

[Intuition]

Yeah Its weird. It ran the first time. Booted up fine and I ran through some model and render routines like my other tuts. Then wanted to of course launch it for the vid and it runs into this error. I am installing it on my O2. At least if I can run it once I can capture a tutorial with it.

[Intuition]

Got back to this today. Been busy on a CGI gig for weeks.

O2 would run it but I am not successful licensing it.

Octane license works but has the out of memory error still even though Alias 11 runs fine.

Today the o2 will start and make the chime but the drive never spools up and the screen never shows the o2 logo.
Though the light is green. No keyboard lights seem to work. Maybe my o2 gave way to Mercury retrograde.

Octane running strong. Trying to uninstall/reinstall Alias 9 at the moment.

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OK, its running after re-install. Making Tutorial Today>
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Ok scratch that. It crashes and I have to start the uninstall install process all over. I am back trying to lic on my o2. Can't seem to stop the Octane from doing the running out of memory problem.
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ERROR: Cannot open temporary output file for /var/flexlm/license.dat:744@Intuition:/usr/Softimage/Flexlm/licenses/softimage.lic:/var/flexlm/aw.dat:/var/flexlm/aw_SP.dat:/var/avid/admin/license.dat:
No such file or directory
ERROR: Cannot open file for store: /var/flexlm/license.dat:744@Intuition:/usr/Softimage/Flexlm/licenses/softimage.lic:/var/flexlm/aw.dat:/var/flexlm/aw_SP.dat:/var/avid/admin/license.dat

No licenses were installed.

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This is the error when I try to enter the license in the standard tool.

Is this some kind of file permissions problem or an env variable that is off?
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Ok, I just remembered that I have a spare Irix install on a separate hard drive that is clean for the Octane.
I will install PA9 on it. It is likely going to work since there will probably be no lic or rsq issues.

[Intuition]

Ok, was able to run it on my other Irix OS drive. Courtesy of Jeff Joplin no less. Was the last purchase I made from him. Just wanted a backup drive with a clean OS.

Came in handy for this.

Recorded a Power Animator tutorial properly this morning.

Just need to edit and upload it. Hopefully by tonight for a tomorrow post.


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Note the Attached PA.txt was the number for my host ID. You'll need to run the gen on it for your own.
I attached it here because I had no copy paste way of getting it to the Octane except by browsing here with FF3.