Thanks for the ideas everyone. I’m really confused by the fact that Soft will successfully read scenes in via Merge any time, will Save and Open (only what was just saved) scenes within the same session, but can’t Open any scene anytime.
I can create materials and add textures from either Pictures or Render Pictures from that same database, but everything in Scenes is off limits unless its been created in the same session. Scenes directory, of the assigned default database, the same database that I can read from Pictures and Render Pictures, is where the stamp files are getting left behind. I’m leaning more and more to the idea that there is something going on is Soft that is broken or unable to properly complete its task that is part of the issue. It’s as if there is some sort of database validation process that Soft performs that has become impaired by the changes to the server, validating scenes but ignoring everything else. There a new thing as well. For nearly 3 years I’ve fought with delays in this system when mounting the remote drive (where the database is), Softimage constantly warning me that the system took 20 something seconds or whatever to mount the drives. That’s gone now. Access to the remote drive is freaking instant. But I cant “open” any scene. How wonderful is that… I can only think of one thing as bizarre in all the years I’ve been doing animation. Some 28 years ago I could save files in Cubicomp with numbers at the front of the scene filenames, but reading them back in would cause all sorts of mayhem. No digits at the beginning of a DOS filename. To this day I avoid naming a file to start with a digit. But that was the way of MS-DOS… -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II) Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Davidson Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 5:40 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: script log at startup Gotta be someone changed the permissions, somewhere. That's my guess. Best Regards, Stephen P. Davidson (954) 552-7956 sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com<mailto:sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Arthur C. Clarke [http://www.3danimationmagic.com/3Danimation_magic_logo_sign.jpg]<http://www.3danimationmagic.com/> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:35 PM Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] <j.ponthi...@nasa.gov<mailto:j.ponthi...@nasa.gov>> wrote: No, not really. Tuesday they worked. Thursday they didn’t. thanks -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II) Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Stephen Davidson Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 4:05 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: script log at startup Shot in the dark, here, but does the network path have an extremely long address? I have had issues with long path names and/or unusual characters in the path. Best Regards, Stephen P. Davidson (954) 552-7956 sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com<mailto:sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Arthur C. Clarke [http://www.3danimationmagic.com/3Danimation_magic_logo_sign.jpg]<http://www.3danimationmagic.com/> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 3:33 PM Sandy Sutherland <sandy.mailli...@gmail.com<mailto:sandy.mailli...@gmail.com>> wrote: Mmm I don't think you can then worry about SI being the only one having issues, that could be anything, even the smallest thing, that just makes the SI file do it. I guess you revert your change, and you will be up and working again. I doubt you can prove what you need to prove, other than reverting your network change, and then SI should save ok again. I am guessing that there is some sort of Bureaucracy that is making you need to prove the network change is your problem - if so - OUCH. S. On 2016-04-22 08:10 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] wrote: Locally the system works fine. Your spidey sense is also on spot. A change was affected prior to all this. We suspect the same but can’t prove it. I’m trying to rule out the application side first. What’s weird is that it is strictly specific to Softimage only. Nothing else is affected. Until I can rule out the epic fail as caused by SI, this isn’t helping. EOL is when again? The timing couldn’t be worse… -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II) Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sandy Sutherland Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 2:59 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: script log at startup You might have mentioned this Joey, but in case not - did you try working with a scene locally, and see if the same thing happens - spidey sense is tingling my side to do with some sort of network issue, server issue - something like that. S. On 2016-04-22 07:22 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] wrote: No. This started yesterday. In 30 years computing this is about one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen. It can mount the remote drives, see everything there, save files, then reads files created within the active session. But any file not created during that session can’t be read and gives an error. All scene files are good and readable. From the local machine there are no issues whatsoever. But when the default database is set to the remote drive, it starts leaving empty files behind with a namespace that’s similar to other files that SI dumps such as the .dmp and .Scriptlog files. But no extension and 0 bytes. I thought maybe it has a read/write test on startup for the database but that it was never obvious that the test file was there because it might get deleted like the .dmp files do when you close Soft. If it is a read/write test something is interfering with its ability to finish the process and delete the test file. Thanks -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II) Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 2:13 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: script log at startup And it's always been like this? Sounds like you should use strace or Process Monitor. There's no log that Softimage itself will write out. On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] <j.ponthi...@nasa.gov<mailto:j.ponthi...@nasa.gov>> wrote: I just need to know what the software does on startup. In particular what tests it runs or files it creates, updates, etc. In particular is there any part of the startup process that is failing but not preventing Soft to run. Currently Soft is able to save a scene, it can then read it back in, but if I close Soft the saved file is no longer readable the next time Soft is run. I’ve deleted preferences. It is doing the same regardless what version of Soft I use. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II) Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Henry Katz Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 12:52 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: script log at startup Presumably you want higher level than strace/ltrace if running under Linux? On 04/22/2016 12:21 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if it is possible to make XSI run a script log of everything it does at startup? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES II) Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. 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