3DKit: "No Renderers Available"

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From: Donovan Kolbly
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:18

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Well, I just upgraded to NeXTSTEP 3.0 and am enjoying RenderMan
in particular immensely.  However, for some reason, when I try
to do photoreal renderering from the 3DKit (ie, using an N3DRenderPanel),
it cannot find any renderers.  /usr/prman/prman seems to work fine.

The release notes admit the possibility of this sort of problem
(near the end of the list of known bugs in N3DKit.rtf), by saying:

> If you change the name of your host by editing /etc/hostconfig
> by hand, the rendering machinery won't be able to find it.  Local
> rendering will not work.  If you change the name of your host using 
> HostManager.app, then you have to further edit the netinfo database 
> in the . domain so your host has localhost as an alias.

However, as far as I can tell, my host does have localhost as an alias,
("nidump hosts ." ==> "192.42.172.253  skye localhost", where "skye"
is the name of my machine.) and other than that, the comment does not
propose a solution.

Any suggestions out there?  Things to try, etc?

---  Donovan Kolbly
     dkolbly@cs.utexas.edu

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From: dkolbly@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Donovan Kolbly)
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Subject: 3DKit: "No Renderers Available"
Summary: Recent 3.0 upgrade and 3DKit can't find renderers.
Keywords: 3DKit, RenderMan, 3.0_upgrade
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Date: 14 Dec 92 08:18:22 GMT
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