Can't login with Autodesk ID SSO on Linux
I was able to get passed "ERROR: Error Information: Maya 2026 : [IDSDK] 3073: The PC has not installed WebKitGTK yet, please install WebKitGTK." By doing the following, very similar solution to @jimmy_christensenMSURY.
sudo apt install rpmcat > ~/mk_webkit2gtk3_dummy.sh <<'Bash'
#!/bin/bash
set -e
cat > webkit2gtk3.spec <<'SPEC'
Name: webkit2gtk3
Version: 1
Release: 0
Summary: Dummy Provides: webkit2gtk3 for Autodesk Licensing
License: Public-Domain
Provides: webkit2gtk3
%description
Empty placeholder so rpm -q webkit2gtk3 returns success.
%files
SPEC
rpmbuild -bb --define "_rpmdir $(pwd)" webkit2gtk3.spec
sudo rpm -i --nodeps --force x86_64/webkit2gtk3-1-0.x86_64.rpm
echo "Dummy RPM installed."
Bash
bash ~/mk_webkit2gtk3_dummy.shNow I'm getting the below window but no browser window opens up.
At first I couldn't get a browser window to open. I restarted my machine and it worked, I assume that there is an easier way but it worked and a browser opened and I was able to authenticate through Autodesk. Then I ran into this issue:
In order to register AdskIdentityManager so that Ubuntu would recognize it as an app I did this:
/opt/Autodesk/AdskIdentityManager/Current/AdskIdentityManager --registerI noted that the file it created in ~/.local/share/applications/com.autodesk.AdskIdentityManager.desktop had the AdskIdentityManager's version number in the path instead of "Current" so I updated that file to future proof it.
Then I updated the database and set adskidmgr as the default app:
# make sure the desktop database picks up the new entry
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
# set it as the default for this scheme
xdg-mime default com.autodesk.AdskIdentityManager.desktop x-scheme-handler/adskidmgrAnd now Maya 2026 works on Ubuntu 24.10
Seems like there are still a few little quirks like complaining about not having access to the internet:
There are also some new errors I don't recall seeing on Maya 2024, here's my startup output:
Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual
for more information.
[2025-04-29 23:57:20.156] [warning] cannot create Service Data folder at path /var/lib/Autodesk/CER, Access to file denied: /var/lib/Autodesk
Warning: Setting a new default format with a different version or profile after the global shared context is created may cause issues with context sharing.
Initialized VP2.0 renderer {
Version : 2016.11.62.12. Feature Level 5.
Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090/PCIe/SSE2
Vendor ID: 4318. Device ID :
Driver : 4.6.0 NVIDIA 560.35.03.
API : OpenGL V.4.6.
Max texture size : 16384 * 16384.
Max texture coords : 32
Shader versions supported (Vertex: 5, Geometry: 5, Pixel 5).
Shader compiler profile : (Best card profile)
Active stereo support available : 0
GPU Memory Limit : 24564 MB.
CPU Memory Limit : 119992 MB.
MultiDraw consolidation : enabled
}
OpenCL evaluator is attempting to initialize OpenCL.
Detected 1 OpenCL Platforms:
0: NVIDIA Corporation. NVIDIA CUDA. OpenCL 3.0 CUDA 12.6.65.
Supported extensions: cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_3d_image_writes cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_icd cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_nv_compiler_options cl_nv_device_attribute_query cl_nv_pragma_unroll cl_nv_copy_opts cl_nv_create_buffer cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_device_uuid cl_khr_pci_bus_info cl_khr_external_semaphore cl_khr_external_memory cl_khr_external_semaphore_opaque_fd cl_khr_external_memory_opaque_fd
Selected matching OpenCL Platform: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA CUDA OpenCL 3.0 CUDA 12.6.65.
OpenCL evaluator choosing OpenCL platform NVIDIA Corporation.
Choosing OpenCL Device NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Device Type: GPU Device is available.
Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual
for more information.
Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual
for more information.Running these two lines fixed the permissions issue, it's just me on this machine:
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/Autodesk/CER
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/lib/AutodeskAnd I removed "LC_ALL=C" from my Maya.env and that fixed the "UTF-8" issues.
I then created a fresh account to be to see what the default Maya.env looked like and it was empty. I removed everything from my Maya.env and Maya starts fine without any extra complaints. The entries must have been carried over from a previous Maya version.
