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Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:24 pm**

I installed (unziped) the linux client and I entered the environment variables.
When I run it though it says it cannot find the licence... I have the licence in the same folder with mxcl.... Where should I put the licence?

thanx,
A

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:45 pm**

Did you try removing the *.txt extension? Maybe this would help

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:55 pm**

still does not work Tom...

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:09 pm**

hehe ... I just give it a chance.. hihihihi...
Sorry bro, but it's better to ask the one. You know who he is...hehehe

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:12 pm**

I know... I just asked - e-mailed the "One".

cy,
A

Posted: **Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:42 pm**

andronikos916 wrote:I know... I just asked - e-mailed the "One".

cy,
A

and is there any resolve? I;ve the same problem...

root@ipd:~/maxwell# ./mxcl
License not valid. Program aborted.
Check installation rules or re-install the software.

Posted: **Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:56 am**

I can not make it work... I am still receiving the same error... if anybody else find what is wrong please post it here...

thanx,
Andronikos

Posted: **Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:50 pm**

tblalock2 wrote:The only thing that I've seen under linux that would make this happen is that under some distros they automatically add "." (without the quotes) to the PATH. This allows programs to look in the same directory as you are in. Without this, you have to explicitly give the location of the license file. Try adding the . to the path like this:
PATH=PATH;.
or something like that. It depends on the shell that you are using on how to reference the system variables.
Hope this helps

PATH variable doesn't affects the error message about invalid license file.

see
znouza@ipd:~/maxwell$ ./mxcl
License not valid. Program aborted.
Check installation rules or re-install the software.

and strace:
...
open("/home/znouza/maxwell/license.txt", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=65, ...}) = 0
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=65, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x126000
read(3, "Tomas Meinlschmidt\r\nTomas Meinls"..., 4096) = 65
close(3)

so the license.txt has been founded, opened and readed. I tried to replace \r\n with \n only.. but no positive change, see

open("/home/znouza/maxwell/license.txt", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=62, ...}) = 0
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=62, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x126000
read(3, "Tomas Meinlschmidt\nTomas Meinlsc"..., 4096) = 62
close(3)

\r\n was replaced with \n ... don't know where's the problem

Posted: **Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:31 pm**

damn that! did anyone from Maxwell read this thread? I'm really interested in rendering in my linux box.. but this is weird! I've sent mail to the tech support (with detailed config, strace etc).. will be two weeks with no reply

Posted: **Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:38 pm**

oneshot wrote:Same problem here!
I try License.txt,license.txt,License,license but always the same error message.
My distro is Gentoo Linux 2005.0 kernel 2.6.10-r6 compiled from stage1 (optimization flag "AMD64 -O 02").

Where is the problem

The problem is NOT with the upper/lowercase.. see my strace output above (mxcl is fopen() the "license.txt".. error is somewhere else

I mean (personally) the problem is with older licenses (for 2cpu) and identifying cpus (try to attach "cat /proc/cpuinfo" output)

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:46 pm**

... and my quad xeon linux box vacates ...

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2005 1:53 am**

Posted: **Wed May 04, 2005 5:14 pm**

lsega77 wrote: ...bla bla...

felt kinda stupid afterwards Anyways I don't know if that will help on the linux unix or mac setups but give it a spin and see! Place the License.txt file in the same folder that maxwell installs into (you should see mxman.exe mxmon.exe and mxcl.exe in the same directory where you put your license.

we're not FOOLS, lsega77. our license file is CORRECT, the location of that file is CORRECT, but mw doesn't work.

Posted: **Thu May 05, 2005 5:25 am**

hey znouza

I wasn't trying to incinuate that anyone is a FOOL. I know you're frustrated and was just offering my experience because I thought it might spark an idea for your situation is all

I'm not familiar with the linux/unix system so didn't know whether or not my info would be helpful.

Good luck with all that then.

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2005 11:11 am**

The license bug is now fixed.
NL Maxwell has fixed the mxcl file. I guess it will be available sortly for download.

thanx,
Andronikos

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License not valid.

License not valid.

try this - hope it helps

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