Blender Octane V4 won't start on linux

[Synthercat]

I am using Blender-Octane 16.6

So I formatted my dual boot system to go to a full linux system and everything went perfect so far installing my apps, setting my system etc.
Here are the steps regarding Octane:

I went to my account - licences - > downloads so it led me to 2019.1.5??? I got confused by the message "For users still using OctaneRender 4, it is possible to access this Test Release thanks to our specially-made "Regular" versions" so......

1. I downloaded those file (MISTAKE!!!)
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... stable.run
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... stable.run
as this didn't work I
2. Used the .run files I had downloaded and installed those files. There were leftovers that I deleted as best as I could.
3. Downloaded Blender Octane Edition - v16.6 Linux and installed.....

blender gets stuck.

4. Used the app timeshift and went back to how everything was before step 1 (however my home folder was not in any way restored)

5. tried step 3 again... it seems my license was locked (to my current system!) so I had to use one of my unlocks... still no luck.

Octane server ternimal gets stuck at Octane: Starting Octane engine... One line each time I try to start a render or go to.

Please help me solve this.

[DrawFun]

Hello Synthercat,

Could you please try the 20.7 with the regular license builds?
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... stable.run
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... stable.run

Cheers,
DrawFun

[Synthercat]

I am already under support from someone from OTOY since I also issued a ticket.
However I first used that version that you mentioned and for reasons I can't understand I am not entitled to use that version. I have a version 4 version lisence for standalone and blender.

My Octane server terminal goes:
Octane: Starting Octane engine...
Octane: ...started
Octane: Activating license...
Octane: ...activated

and my blender is stack like this:

Does anyone remember if on Linux Mint (cinnamon) we see or we don't see an icon for for OctaneServer down to the right similar to the windows edition?

[grimm]

I run Linux Mint on my box, you will not see an icon on the desktop tray. You can open a terminal and type the following...

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ps ax | grep Octane

..and you should see something like this...

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24872 pts/0    Ssl+   0:00 /usr/local/OctaneServer/OctaneServer
24914 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto Octane

The first line shows that OctaneServer is running, if you only get the second line, it is not.

Jason

[Synthercat]

Long time no seeing grimm.

Yes I have my server running but it can't connect to blender!
Once a render is about to start (or even if I try to open up octane settings etc) everything blender freezes untill I kill the server.

[grimm]

If there is a version mismatch between the plugin and the server can cause this. Although your issue sounds different to me, maybe it's your driver?

Jason

[Synthercat]

I got the driver that comes with mint updates... 435.21
I can run the octane benchmark.

Yesterday I tried a little something as I remembered that we used to link files between lib folders to make this work.
I unpacked the app file and copied all the lib files into /usr/lib and /use/lib64

It doesn't seem to get frozen but it still doesn't work... Should I try to run Octane through Unity? Do we know if that works on Linux too?

[grimm]

One thing to try is to run Blender from the command line in a terminal and see if there are any error messages. A lot of times that can shed light on the problem. Your driver is fairly new, I'm running 440.64. Were you able to test version 20.7?

Jason

[Synthercat]

Version 20.7 is not for us who never upgraded more than V4. I thought it was but I had a silence error when I tried.
I am guessing it's some kind of library issue.
blender even when run in debug didn't show any messages that helped. I wonder if I could somehow force octaneserver to run in debug mode to see any messages there.


Question: My octaneserver or blender isn't running right now. Is this correct or does it mean my license wasn't released?

[Synthercat]

One thing to try is to run Blender from the command line in a terminal and see if there are any error messages. A lot of times that can shed light on the problem. Your driver is fairly new, I'm running 440.64. Were you able to test version 20.7?

Jason

It seems that the most important message I get from blender side is :
Octane: can't connect to Octane server.