maya arnold 5 batch render crashes if no graphics card installed

[saswat.sahoo]

We have render blades that have no graphics card installed. Maya 2018 + Arnold 5 crashes immediately upon file read with segmentation fault.

Starting "/tech/apps/Autodesk/maya2018.3/maya2018/bin/maya"

This plugin does not support createPlatformOpenGLContext!

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Loading arnold

NVIDIA: no NVIDIA devices found

....

Successfully imported python module 'arnold'

Successfully imported python module 'mtoa'

Successfully registered renderer 'arnold'

Warning: Loading plug-in "mtoa" has resulted in changes to the scene that may need to be saved.

AbcExport v1.0 using Alembic 1.7.5 (built Feb 7 2018 15:59:45)

AbcImport v1.0 using Alembic 1.7.5 (built Feb 7 2018 15:59:45)

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* Arnold 5.1.0.1 [8698598b] linux clang-5.0.0 oiio-1.7.17 osl-1.9.0 vdb-4.0.0 clm-1.0.3.513 rlm-12.2.2 2018/04/17 17:37:03

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

// Maya exited with status 139

Any idea whats going wrong here ?

[Anonymous]

you can add below lines in your linux env. Hope it works.

FLEXLM_DIAGANOSTIC=3 ADCLMHUB_LOG_LEVEL=T