

I hope that Resolve will show a more specific error in the future. Resolve was just not able to write the license data to disk due to a filesystem error (in my case I had made the Resolve dir read-only after installation.) My problem turned out to be on my own computer and nothing to do with the license key or license server or network connection. I don't understand why BM license system is so messy. I have to go on windows, activate, then disable licences, then reboot on linux and activate. Same issue here, I am on linux and it is all a mess, I activate then the next day it tells me to activate again and I can't. I have to rely on the automatic deactivate, which doesn't seem to work on Linux. This time I can't do that because I no longer have access to the system. What I have done in the past is go to MacOS and select "Deactivate" without any issues so that I can then install on Linux. However, on Linux, it doesn't seem to do that part properly as it always fails. It looks like when you attempt to activate on Windows or Mac, it contacts Blackmagic DB servers to deactivate the oldest installation.

On Windows or MacOS, this doesn't seem to be an issue. This is terrible that I have to go through this every time. Reinstalling 17.1.1 and having the activation issue again. Unix4linux wrote:I'm back on this thread. If anyone has any idea on how to solve this issue, your help would be greatly appreciated! Here's the link to the Logs that result after attempting to activate the software as well as my system NFO file. My PC is custom-built, so there's no official brand on it (if it helps, I'm running off an Intel i5-9600K. My OS is Windows 10, and I installed the most current version of DaVinci Resolve Studio 15. For any Blackmagic Support folks, my ticket number is LPI-999-61972. Every time I enter in the activation key, it tells me that "there was an error when attempting to perform the activation." I've contacted BMD Support about this and have opened a ticket with them, but their response time has been. Hello! I've recently purchased the Studio version of DaVinci Resolve and was excited to get it up and running, but unfortunately, I've hit a snag in trying to activate the software.
