Need_a_Miracle 25 December 2008 12:20 PM
Ho Ho Ho
You might want to look at the bottom of this page:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/ser...d=10907217&linkID=9242819
This is a redhat package. You would make my Christmas if you can tell me how to make this work on Ubuntu (Debian)
Quite a bump, but here it goes. :)
Today I took some effort in moving our backburner Manager from a Windows7 x64 PC to a linux machine running a x64 Debian installation. Things should be fairly identical on a Ubuntu x64 system, by now the most common Linux distro around (see http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA5MTQ).
By accident I found a Linux backburner 2012 package in the Autodesk Maya Services & Support pages: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/ser...d=18699866&linkID=9242259
Unfortunately this is a 32bit rpm (Redhat) package, but I found a good starting point here: http://etoia.free.fr/?p=1611
The alien method didn’t work for me, as alien refuses to create x64 .deb from a x86 .rpm package. The other method however got me going. I pulled the mentioned dependencies and then some, unpacked the .rpm and moved files into their respective places (mainly the backburner software to /usr/discreet/* and the initscripts to /etc/init.d/*). To my surprise I was able to start the manager using the init script and connect to it using a Backburner monitor/server from one of our (Win7 x64) workstations. Furthermore I was able to clean the init scripts a bit by changing it to a bash script instead of a sh (mainly in support of ‘let’ and -lt arguments). Obviously, a lot of work is to be done to fully comply to current Debian/Ubuntu initscript guidelines, but so far I was already happy that at least it was running cleanly.
I did some quick test by submitting some jobs and all seemed fine until a bit later the backburner manager started to quit on me spitting segfaults (as seen in dmesg) on the way out:
[19951173.827364] backburnerManag[12239]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000f76dd041 sp 00000000f4b4c360 error 4 in libDLnrapi.so[f764d000+11a000]
[19958274.229959] backburnerManag[15779]: segfault at 68 ip 000000000810fcdc sp 00000000f2f8e198 error 6 in backburner Manager[8048000+fd000]
[19958649.419581] backburnerManag[16032]: segfault at 13 ip 0000000000000013 sp 00000000f4afb1cc error 14 in backburnerManager[8048000+fd000]
Without a proper error log it’s kind of hard resolving this type of crashes, so I think this pretty much ends the adventure.
I think Autodesk would do a good job in releasing a x64 .deb installation of at least the Backburner Manager as it would allow the manager to run properly on the currently most popular Linux distibutions.
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