gaurav Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 A bit of noob question when H appears to be frozen and not responding. Are there any known steps to try out before sending it a TERM sig using kill, if it has any chances. Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macha Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 (edited) I do this: kill -QUIT 782136 But before that I see if mantra is the offender, you can kill that without compromising your Houdini. Sometimes I also place a cup of tea on the ESC button and go for a wander. Edited February 19, 2012 by Macha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik_JE Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 A nice trick to try and force an automatic crash save of the file if you have forgot to save is using kill -SEGV pid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopbin9 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I'm going to have tshirts made with the words "segmentation fault" and sell them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurav Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 Thank you folks, Adding more to my noobness by asking : Is there a place to check how H is set up to trap various signals. Can it be modified to take some other action than the default one. I am assuming that would involve systems programming in linux. right ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik_JE Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I don't think they are documented anywhere. Not that i can remember at least and I don't remember who told me about the SEGV either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I don't think they are documented anywhere. Not that i can remember at least and I don't remember who told me about the SEGV either. That's because Houdini will always attempt a save when the process crashes. On Unix, when a process crashes, it receives a SEGV signal. So explicitly sending Houdini a SEGV signal on Unix will force a save and quit. This is just the way things work because it's Unix and not specifically about Houdini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I always use kill -9 ##### to kill kill -8 ##### to force a file into tmp... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryew Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I always use kill -9 ##### to kill kill -8 ##### to force a file into tmp... kill -6 <pid> usually gets a file saved to /tmp for me as well kill -9 <pid> is my "just kill it and be done with it" go-to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 never use kill -9 to kill Houdini!! ... seriously. I had maybe one or two occurs in years where I wasn't be able to restore the crash recovery hip file ... kill -SEGV <pid> ... it'll save your life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 never use kill -9 to kill Houdini!! ... seriously. Yes, it's dangerous since that won't save your file and you can lose your changes. On the other hand, if you have a *large* production scene, saving can also take a long time. So if you know for a fact that you already have it saved, it can be faster to do a force quit. Having said that, I usually hit ESC a couple of times first and let it cook for a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik_JE Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Real men use xkill 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFight4theUser Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 So... Does anyone know of the -SEGV equivalent in Windows.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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