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Unable to load Substance for Maya 2011

Subscription users attempting to load the substance plugin which was included with Maya 2011 Advantage Pack on RHE5 (Redhat Enterprise 5) will notice the error below.

// Error: Unable to dynamically load : /usr/autodesk/maya2011.5-x64/bin/plug-ins/Substance.so
/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.6' not found (required by /usr/autodesk/maya2011.5-x64/lib/libsubstance_sse2_blend.so.1) //
// Error: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.6' not found (required by /usr/autodesk/maya2011.5-x64/lib/libsubstance_sse2_blend.so.1) //
// Error: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.6' not found (required by /usr/autodesk/maya2011.5-x64/lib/libsubstance_sse2_blend.so.1) (Substance) //

RHE5 uses an older version of GLIBC, version 2.5 to be exact. These libraries were compiled on a newer version of GLIBC than what is provided by RHE5.  At this time users will not be able to use the plugin unless they are on a system with GLIBC 2.6 which is standard on Fedora 11.

Autodesk has placed this product issue on development's product modification schedule.

workspace.mel

Maya 2011 overwrites the workspace.mel file whenever the user sets a Project, or launches a Batch Render, unlike in Maya 2010 where the workspace.mel file was read but not overwritten.