HtoA Loading AWS SpotFleet Linux Instance

[Blacksmith_Support]

Hello,

I’ve been able to launch Houdini Jobs via an AWS custom instance(via Deadline) and am attempting to render an HtoA job within Houdini.
I’m having trouble getting Houdini to load Arnold using the Houdini.env on our instance.

Somedetails:

/home/ec2-user/houdin17.5/houdini.env
reads as below:
HOUDINI_PATH=/home/ec2-user/htoa-4.1.1_rf2c4e45_houdini-17.5.293;&

My htoa install path is here:
/home/ec2-user/htoa-4.1.1_rf2c4e45_houdini-17.5.293

However doesn’t seem like it’s getting loaded when the deadline node launches on the spotfleet instance:

Warning: Bad node type found: arnold_vopnet in /shop.
2019-09-17 17:33:48: 0: STDOUT: Missing the parent of a node on load: obj/arnold_skydome_light1/shopnet/arnold_vopnet.
2019-09-17 17:33:48: 0: STDOUT: The following node types are using incomplete asset definitions:
2019-09-17 17:33:48: 0: STDOUT: Driver/deadline
2019-09-17 17:33:48: 0: STDOUT: Object/arnold_light
2019-09-17 17:33:48: 0: STDOUT: Driver/arnold
2019-09-17 17:33:48: 0: STDOUT: ROP type: arnold
2019-09-17 17:33:48: 0: STDOUT: Enabled log to console
2019-09-17 17:33:48: 0: STDOUT: Set verbosity to detailed
2019-09-17 17:33:48: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 2
2019-09-17 17:33:48: 0: STDOUT: Error: Caught exception: [’ File “/opt/hfs17.5.293/houdini/python2.7libs/hou.py”, line 51187, in render\n return _hou.RopNode_render(*args, **kwargs)\n’, ‘OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.\nError: No command specified for rendering\n Unable to evaluate expression (\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File “<stdin>”, line 2, in expression\nImportError: No module named htoa.searchpath\n (/out/arnold1/soho_pipecmd)).\n’]

Thanks,
-Jake

[Stephen.Blair]

I guess I would start with hconfig -a

And strace to see if HtoA is even found during startup

[Blacksmith_Support]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks!

strace hconfig -a showed the following

......

write(1, "HOUDINI_PACKAGE_VERBOSE := 0\n", 29HOUDINI_PACKAGE_VERBOSE := 0 ) = 29 write(1, "HOUDINI_PATH := '/home/ec2-user/"..., 72HOUDINI_PATH := '/home/ec2-user/htoa-4.1.1_rf2c4e45_houdini-17.5.293:&' ) = 72

........

Is there supposed to be any other HtoA related var that I should check?

Thanks,

-Jake

[Blacksmith_Support]

Hi Stephen,

I moved the houdini install to the "opt" directory and it worked. I'm guessing it was some sort of permissions thing.

Thanks,

-Jake