licensing issue, can't generate .wbc file

V-Ray V-Ray for Maya Issues
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Hi,

I can’t generate a .wbc file for dongle reprogramming. It always comes up with this error message:

Failed!

There was an error while trying to obtain the context (-100). Contact Chaos Software to resolve the problem

How do I get around that?

I’m on Mac OS X 10.9.3.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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I’ll get someone from the support guys to help, I know they’ve come across this before. Bit of a bummer that this comes in on Friday night… In the meantime, if it’s possible, you can generate the .wbc file on another machine (Windows or Linux; Windows generally is more reliable).

Best regards,
Vlado

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Thanks for the reply! Was easy in the end, just had to run the vrlservice with root permissions.
Cheers

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We are glad to hear you sorted it out.
Feel free to contact us again if you have any issues.

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You can get a license server from the 2.4.02 build (or 3.0 beta 2 if you have access). This error should be fixed there. AFAIK, it was not root related, but you must run vrlservice from the console to work around the -100 error. The new vrlservice should work fine even if launched from the GUI.