| New OS, more IDL troubles [message #77120] |
Fri, 05 August 2011 14:36  |
penteado
Messages: 866
Registered: February 2018
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I just upgraded to Fedora 15 (which has been out for over two months
already), and found new ways in which IDL (8.1) fails to work:
1) The license manager is broken. It thinks that the host ID is
000000000000, and thus obviously does not match what is in the license
file.
2) It still takes installing both Adobe Reader and Skype to fix some
of its missing dependencies, as I reported several times earlier.
3) t is now even more broken with 3D rendering than I reported before,
at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thread/45b1a4509304f400
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thread/848810d6b74346a0
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thread/1a150afc3bc5bb22
Now trying to manipulate any 3D graphics in isurface crashes IDL. That
is using hardware rendering. But surface() seems to work. Using
software rendering makes isurface work, though very slowly (several
seconds to rotate a simple dist(100)), and breaks completely anything
in New Graphics, on creation, even if just 2D.
Most readers here know I do not like using Direct Graphics, and have
been using iTools and the New Graphics. But it is hard if they insist
on getting broken.
As for 7.1.1, I cannot even get its Workbench to start.
Later I will see if different video drivers make any difference
regarding the rendering problems. But the LM issue manages to be even
more serious, making it pretty much unusable now.
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| Re: New OS, more IDL troubles [message #77412 is a reply to message #77120] |
Thu, 01 September 2011 02:58  |
Reimar Bauer
Messages: 14
Registered: August 2002
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Am 05.08.2011 23:36, schrieb Paulo Penteado:
> I just upgraded to Fedora 15 (which has been out for over two months
> already), and found new ways in which IDL (8.1) fails to work:
>
> 1) The license manager is broken. It thinks that the host ID is
> 000000000000, and thus obviously does not match what is in the license
> file.
>
have you ipv6 enabled? If you comment of the ipv6 definitions in the
hosts file is it still wrong?
We found some issues on recent ubuntu because lmgrd does not understand
the hosts file correctly. lmgrd seems to have an order problem. It
expects localhost definitions on top of the file and if networkmanager
inserts its address on top of localhost any definition below the new
line is ignored.
We had to set the hosts file immutable to get that solved.
cheers
Reimar
> 2) It still takes installing both Adobe Reader and Skype to fix some
> of its missing dependencies, as I reported several times earlier.
>
> 3) t is now even more broken with 3D rendering than I reported before,
> at
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thread/45b1a4509304f400
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thread/848810d6b74346a0
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thread/1a150afc3bc5bb22
> Now trying to manipulate any 3D graphics in isurface crashes IDL. That
> is using hardware rendering. But surface() seems to work. Using
> software rendering makes isurface work, though very slowly (several
> seconds to rotate a simple dist(100)), and breaks completely anything
> in New Graphics, on creation, even if just 2D.
>
> Most readers here know I do not like using Direct Graphics, and have
> been using iTools and the New Graphics. But it is hard if they insist
> on getting broken.
>
> As for 7.1.1, I cannot even get its Workbench to start.
>
> Later I will see if different video drivers make any difference
> regarding the rendering problems. But the LM issue manages to be even
> more serious, making it pretty much unusable now.
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| Re: New OS, more IDL troubles [message #77503 is a reply to message #77412] |
Fri, 02 September 2011 08:55 |
penteado
Messages: 866
Registered: February 2018
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In this case, the problem was that lmgrd did not understand Fedora's
new device names, and thought there were no network cards. Fedora 15
changed the way network devices are named, dropping the usual eth*:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDevi ceNaming
The only way I could find to make lmgrd work was to revert the device
names back to eth*, as discussed in
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?s=29f5559f3f6af e9b94a5e37cec985b62&t=265259&page=2
I have not yet tested to see if the same would occur with FlexLM from
other products, like PGI.
On Sep 1, 6:58 am, Reimar Bauer <rb.p...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 05.08.2011 23:36, schrieb Paulo Penteado:
>
>> I just upgraded to Fedora 15 (which has been out for over two months
>> already), and found new ways in which IDL (8.1) fails to work:
>
>> 1) The license manager is broken. It thinks that the host ID is
>> 000000000000, and thus obviously does not match what is in the license
>> file.
>
> have you ipv6 enabled? If you comment of the ipv6 definitions in the
> hosts file is it still wrong?
>
> We found some issues on recent ubuntu because lmgrd does not understand
> the hosts file correctly. lmgrd seems to have an order problem. It
> expects localhost definitions on top of the file and if networkmanager
> inserts its address on top of localhost any definition below the new
> line is ignored.
>
> We had to set the hosts file immutable to get that solved.
>
> cheers
> Reimar
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>> 2) It still takes installing both Adobe Reader and Skype to fix some
>> of its missing dependencies, as I reported several times earlier.
>
>> 3) t is now even more broken with 3D rendering than I reported before,
>> at
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thr...
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thr...
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thr...
>> Now trying to manipulate any 3D graphics in isurface crashes IDL. That
>> is using hardware rendering. But surface() seems to work. Using
>> software rendering makes isurface work, though very slowly (several
>> seconds to rotate a simple dist(100)), and breaks completely anything
>> in New Graphics, on creation, even if just 2D.
>
>> Most readers here know I do not like using Direct Graphics, and have
>> been using iTools and the New Graphics. But it is hard if they insist
>> on getting broken.
>
>> As for 7.1.1, I cannot even get its Workbench to start.
>
>> Later I will see if different video drivers make any difference
>> regarding the rendering problems. But the LM issue manages to be even
>> more serious, making it pretty much unusable now.
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