chrisperry05 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Hi, For quite a while now i've been getting various dll errors with some parts of Houdini. Specifically when I try to load mplay from the command line or when I try to login to the orbolt store making it impossible to use. Does anyone have any ideas of how to solve this? I think the errors occured after one of the windows updates but i'm not sure which one really. I've tried completely uninstalling Houdini and starting from scratch but still no joy. Any help would be great. Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 3, in <module> File "C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.469/houdini/python2.6libs\hou.py", line 18, in <module> import _hou ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 A stab in the dark is that you also have a separate installation of Python on your machine and Houdini is finding it instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisperry05 Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 Hi, thanks for the reply. I don't have a stand alone version of python installed but I do have a few autodesk programs, do you think these could be potentially causing the conflict? Cheers Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mantragora Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 (edited) ... I do have a few autodesk programs, do you think these could be potentially causing the conflict? Definitely yes! Edited August 7, 2013 by mantragora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 I don't have a stand alone version of python installed but I do have a few autodesk programs, do you think these could be potentially causing the conflict? Check the values of your environment variables and save them. Now then remove everything Maya related before starting Houdini again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisperry05 Posted August 8, 2013 Author Share Posted August 8, 2013 Hi, I've tried removing all the autodesk products (Motion Builder and Softimage demos) but still getting the same error. On the config, HOUDINI_PYTHON_VERSION := '<not defined>' I get the same errors when trying to use an older 12.1 version as well. Thanks again. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 You don't have any PYTHON -related variables set do you? Also check the value of your PATH environment variable. Also check the registry, from the Python documentation This is how sys.path is populated on Windows: An empty entry is added at the start, which corresponds to the current directory. If the environment variable PYTHONPATH exists, as described in Environment variables, its entries are added next. Note that on Windows, paths in this variable must be separated by semicolons, to distinguish them from the colon used in drive identifiers (C:\ etc.). Additional “application paths” can be added in the registry as subkeys of \SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\version\PythonPath under both the HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hives. Subkeys which have semicolon-delimited path strings as their default value will cause each path to be added to sys.path. (Note that all known installers only use HKLM, so HKCU is typically empty.) If the environment variable PYTHONHOME is set, it is assumed as “Python Home”. Otherwise, the path of the main Python executable is used to locate a “landmark file” (Lib\os.py) to deduce the “Python Home”. If a Python home is found, the relevant sub-directories added to sys.path (Lib, plat-win, etc) are based on that folder. Otherwise, the core Python path is constructed from the PythonPath stored in the registry. If the Python Home cannot be located, no PYTHONPATH is specified in the environment, and no registry entries can be found, a default path with relative entries is used (e.g. .\Lib;.\plat-win, etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisperry05 Posted August 9, 2013 Author Share Posted August 9, 2013 Hi, Thanks again for getting back to me. No all of the PYTHON variables are set to '<not defined>' and so is the PATH variable. Is this correct? I've never tampered with any of the enviroment settings etc. as to be honest I wouldn't really know what I was doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 I'm running out of ideas then. You have some sort of antivirus program that prevents certain components of Houdini from being installed? Disable your antivirus, download the latest 12.5 daily build and try again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisperry05 Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 Thanks for your help, I don't have an antivirus running so shouldn't be that. I think it's time to backup and reinstall Windows. Cheers again fo rthe help Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mantragora Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Try it from account that have full admin rights. This hidden one => Windows7 admin account not the one under RMB and "run as admin". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisperry05 Posted August 13, 2013 Author Share Posted August 13, 2013 Hi, Just tried this but unfortunately still no luck. Thanks for the help though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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