Maya-2020-Installation-CentOS-8

Autodesk Instructions Followed

Steps Attempted for Installation

Start with fresh CentOS 8 installation
Run:

sudo dnf update

Download MtoA / Arnold for Maya 2020 from the official downloads page

The downloaded file is named:

MtoA-4.0.3.1-linux-2020.run

Its SHA256 checksum is:

5159d4bc5218d042a0cb227d287d77c28750f16d87e74e6da8d11ed454c9be15

Attempt to install Arnold for Maya 2020

[brenden@errmac Software]$ sudo sh MtoA-4.0.3.1-linux-2020.run 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing MtoA for Linux Installer......
./unix_installer.sh: line 1: python: command not found
[brenden@errmac Software]$ which python
/usr/bin/which: no python in (/home/brenden/.local/bin:/home/brenden/bin:/home/brenden/.local/bin:/home/brenden/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin)
[brenden@errmac Software]$ which python3
/usr/bin/python3
[brenden@errmac Software]$ python3 --version
Python 3.6.8

This failed because Arnold for Maya 2020 is still using python 2.x which is EOL and not present on CentOS8.

Skipping Arnold installation and moving along.

Download Autodesk Maya 2020 Installer The downloaded file is named:

Autodesk_Maya_2020_ML_Linux_64bit.tgz

Its SHA256 checksum is:

715260696f7cc626265a4ca53f86abbb3edce8e531866b7c35508408f3554335

Extract the Installer

tar xvf Autodesk_Maya_2020_ML_Linux_64bit.tgz

#lines removed for brevity

[brenden@errmac Maya]$ ls
Autodesk_Maya_2020_ML_Linux_64bit.tgz  manifest  MayaConfig.pit  ODIS  Packages  Setup  SetupRes  setup.xml

cd Packages

Install ADLM

sudo yum install adlmapps17-17.0.49-0.x86_64.rpm

Install ADSK Licensing

sudo yum install adsklicensing9.2.1.2399-0-0.x86_64.rpm

This installs and configures a systemd service as seen below:

Install ADLM Flexnet IPV6 Server

sudo yum install adlmflexnetserverIPV6-17.0.50-0.x86_64.rpm

Install ADLM Flexnet Client

sudo yum install adlmflexnetclient-17.0.49-0.x86_64.rpm

Install the Maya rpm

sudo yum install Maya2020_64-2020.0-235.x86_64.rpm

Verify Maya installation

[brenden@errmac Packages]$ /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/9.2.1.2399/helper/AdskLicensingInstHelper list
[
  {
    "feature_id": "MAYA",
    "def_prod_key": "<REDACTED>",
    "def_prod_ver": "2020.0.0.F",
    "sel_prod_key": "<REDACTED>",
    "sel_prod_ver": "2020.0.0.F",
    "supported_lic_methods": [
      2,
      1,
      4
    ],
    "lic_servers": [
      ""
    ],
    "serial_number_sa": "000-00000000",
    "serial_number_nw": "000-00000000",
    "def_prod_code": "MAYA",
    "sel_prod_code": "MAYA"
  }
]

Install Dependencies

sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi
sudo yum install xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi 
sudo dnf install epel-release.noarch   #yum is just a symlink to dnf
sudo dnf makecache
sudo yum install audiofile audiofile-devel

Attempt to start Maya

Run fails due to missing libpng15.so.15.

[brenden@errmac Packages]$ which maya
/usr/local/bin/maya
[brenden@errmac Packages]$ maya
/usr/autodesk/maya2020/bin/maya.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpng15.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install libpng15.so.15 and try to start Maya

Run fails due to missing libGLU.so.1

[brenden@errmac Packages]$ sudo yum install libpng15-1.5.30-7.el8.x86_64

[brenden@errmac Packages]$ maya
/usr/autodesk/maya2020/bin/maya.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install libGLU and try to start Maya

Run fails due to missing libssl.so.10

[brenden@errmac Packages]$ sudo yum install libpng15-1.5.30-7.el8.x86_64

[brenden@errmac Packages]$ maya
/usr/autodesk/maya2020/bin/maya.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install libssl and try to start Maya

Run fails due to missing libXp.so.6

[brenden@errmac Packages]$ sudo yum install compat-openssl10-1:1.0.2o-3.el8.x86_64

[brenden@errmac Packages]$ maya
/usr/autodesk/maya2020/bin/maya.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install libXp and try to start Maya

Maya installation wizard starts this time!

[brenden@errmac Packages]$ sudo yum install libXp-1.0.3-3.el8.x86_64

[brenden@errmac Packages]$ maya

Click Single-User to register license

Maya crashes with an error:

[brenden@errmac Packages]$ maya
maya: Autodesk Maya 2020
A licensing error occurred that Autodesk systems were not able to handle for you. Please contact Autodesk Customer Support for help in resolving this error.
adlsdkAuthorize returned with error code: ADLSDK_STATUS_LICENSE_CHECKOUT_ERROR
The default location for log files to help diagnose the issue is: /usr/tmp

Check logs for failure details

Contents of /usr/tmp/MayaCLM-25-06-2020.log:

2020-06-25 17:44:11: ====== BEGIN MAYA CLM LICENSE DIAGNOSTICS (level 2) ======
2020-06-25 17:44:11: INFO: MAYA VERSION: Autodesk Maya 2020
2020-06-25 17:44:11: INFO: Desktop Licensing Runtime Version: 2.6.3.31
2020-06-25 17:44:11: INFO: Desktop Licensing API version in Maya: 2.6.3.31
2020-06-25 17:44:11: INFO: initialize: GetInstance (Success)
2020-06-25 17:45:22: ====== BEGIN MAYA CLM LICENSE DIAGNOSTICS (level 2) ======
2020-06-25 17:45:22: INFO: MAYA VERSION: Autodesk Maya 2020
2020-06-25 17:45:22: INFO: Desktop Licensing Runtime Version: 2.6.3.31
2020-06-25 17:45:22: INFO: Desktop Licensing API version in Maya: 2.6.3.31
2020-06-25 17:45:22: INFO: initialize: GetInstance (Success)
2020-06-25 17:45:27: INFO: Received LicenseUpdateCallback for Maya 2020 (ADLSDK_UPDATE_REASON_LICENSE_UPDATE): NOT Authorized
2020-06-25 17:45:27: ERROR: Error Information: Maya 2020 : command execution error
2020-06-25 17:45:27: ERROR: adlsdkAuthorize returned with error code: ADLSDK_STATUS_LICENSE_CHECKOUT_ERROR
2020-06-25 17:45:27: ERROR: checkinLicense: unable to release authentication handle
2020-06-25 17:45:27: INFO: shutdown: normal exit

Click enter a serial number to try alternate route

Clicked enter a serial number and got an error:

Unable to initialize adlm.
Internal Error Message: <Service not installed.>
Error Code: <20>

Read troubleshooting steps from Autodesk Forums https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/installation-licensing/maya-2020-centos-7-7-unable-to-initialize-adlm/td-p/9223338
Try manual installation of Flexnet toolkit

Running the two scripts suggested in the forum post seems to indicate the Flexnet service is not running:

[brenden@errmac bin]$ sudo /opt/Autodesk/Adlm/FLEXnet/bin/toolkitinstall.sh

Checking system...
Configuring for Linux, Trusted Storage path /usr/local/share/macrovision/storage...
/usr/local/share/macrovision/storage already exists...
Setting permissions on /usr/local/share/macrovision/storage...
Permissions set...
Configuration completed successfully.

[brenden@errmac bin]$ sudo ./install_fnp.sh 
ERROR: Unable to locate anchor service to install, please specify correctly on command line

Try to run Flexnet service manually Running the service returns the confusing error 'No such file or directory` even though it exists.

This StackOverflow post indicates there may be missing libraries.

[brenden@errmac bin]$ pwd
/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/FLEXnet/bin
[brenden@errmac bin]$ ls
FNPLicensingService  install_fnp.sh  toolkitinstall.sh
[brenden@errmac bin]$ sudo ./FNPLicensingService 
sudo: unable to execute ./FNPLicensingService: No such file or directory
[brenden@errmac bin]$ file FNPLicensingService 
FNPLicensingService: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3, for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped

Try to find missing libraries Using the readelf -a command and grepping (ignore case) for request finds that the ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3 file is missing.

[brenden@errmac bin]$ readelf -a FNPLicensingService  | grep -i request
      [Requesting program interpreter: /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3]
[brenden@errmac bin]$ file /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3
/lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3: cannot open `/lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3' (No such file or directory)

[brenden@errmac bin]$ sudo dnf whatprovides "*/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3"
Last metadata expiration check: 0:37:12 ago on Thu 25 Jun 2020 05:32:38 PM PDT.
redhat-lsb-core-4.1-47.el8.x86_64 : LSB Core module support
Repo        : AppStream
Matched from:
Filename    : /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3

Install redhat-lsb-core and try again FNPLicensingService runs successfully!

[brenden@errmac bin]$ sudo dnf install redhat-lsb-core-4.1-47.el8.x86_64

[brenden@errmac bin]$ sudo ./FNPLicensingService 
FNPLicensingService -{rkhs}
   -r    Run the FNPLicensingService daemon
	-k    Kill the FNPLicensingService daemon
   -s    Print the status of the  FNPLicensingService daemon
   -h    Print help information

[brenden@errmac bin]$ sudo ./FNPLicensingService -r
Licensing Service daemon activated

[brenden@errmac bin]$ ps -ef | grep -i fnp
root       46841    6954  0 18:17 ?        00:00:00 ./FNPLicensingService -r
brenden    46864   16926  0 18:17 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i fnp

Try re-running Flexnet tools manually

Running sudo ./install_fnp.sh still fails with the missing anchor service error.

So, I tried running sudo ./install_fnp.sh --help to see if there were help docs.

The help looked like this:

install_fnp.sh [--help] [--cert] [--nolsb] [--nodaemon] [ <path to FNLS> ]

The [ <path to FNLS> ] option looked promising, so I pointed it at the FNPLicensingService` file that was now able to run:

[brenden@errmac bin]$ sudo ./install_fnp.sh `pwd`/FNPLicensingService

Checking for active FNP Licensing Service Daemon...
Need to restart FNP Licensing Service Daemon
Licensing Service daemon terminated

FNP Licensing Service Daemon checks complete

Checking for SELinux
*** WARNING: Running with SELINUX enabled can affect the operation of the FlexNet Licensing Service
***          Refer to the FlexNet Publisher Documentation for further details
SELinux checks complete

Checking LSB compatibility...
LSB compatibility checks complete

Installing licensing service from /opt/Autodesk/Adlm/FLEXnet/bin/FNPLicensingService to /usr/local/share/FNP/service64/11.16.0

Checking system for trusted storage area...
Configuring for Linux, Trusted Storage path /usr/local/share/macrovision/storage...
chattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat /usr/local/share/macrovision/storage/FLEXnet
chown: cannot access '/usr/local/share/macrovision/storage/FLEXnet': No such file or directory
/usr/local/share/macrovision/storage already exists...
Setting permissions on /usr/local/share/macrovision/storage...
Permissions set...


Checking system for Replicated Anchor area...
Configuring Replicated Anchor area...
Replicated Anchor area already exists...
Setting permissions on Replicated Anchor area...
Replicated Anchor area permissions set...
Configuring Temporary area...
Temporary area already exists...
Setting permissions on Temporary area...
Temporary area permissions set...
Setting FUSE configuration
ERROR: FlexNetFs mount-point inaccessible because of /dev/shm file permissions

Starting FNPLicensingService daemon owner by brenden
Licensing Service daemon activated

Checking FNPLicensingService is running
Configuration completed successfully.

Try clicking enter a serial number again

Clicking enter a serial number on the installation wizard now works!

Enter a serial number at the activation page

The page prompts you to activate Maya

Activation is successful

The wizard shows a success message. Click Finish

Maya starts!

bxbrenden/Maya-2020-Installation-CentOS-8

Maya-2020-Installation-CentOS-8

Autodesk Instructions Followed

Steps Attempted for Installation