We have one on-prem headless render node that fails maya/redshift render jobs containing referenced scenes. Artist workstations connected via VPN render the jobs correctly, and the on-prem node renders jobs without references just fine. We’ve tested this with Worker running both as a regular user and as a service with a locked-down account and get the same error:
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: WARNING: Strict error checking off, ignoring the following error or warning.
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: STDOUT: Error: file: C:/ProgramData/Thinkbox/Deadline10/workers/L40-CP-Render01/jobsData/61533d01b137185b3007e347/Patio_Chair_Lighting_PUB.ma line 75093: The simpleSelector 'Table2_shapesSelector' has no '.ppa' attribute.
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: WARNING: Strict error checking off, ignoring the following error or warning.
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: STDOUT: Error: file: C:/ProgramData/Thinkbox/Deadline10/workers/L40-CP-Render01/jobsData/61533d01b137185b3007e347/Patio_Chair_Lighting_PUB.ma line 75093: setAttr: No object matches name: .ppa
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: WARNING: Strict error checking off, ignoring the following error or warning.
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: STDOUT: Error: file: C:/ProgramData/Thinkbox/Deadline10/workers/L40-CP-Render01/jobsData/61533d01b137185b3007e347/Patio_Chair_Lighting_PUB.ma line 75214: The simpleSelector 'collection5_shapesSelector' has no '.ppa' attribute.
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: WARNING: Strict error checking off, ignoring the following error or warning.
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: STDOUT: Error: file: C:/ProgramData/Thinkbox/Deadline10/workers/L40-CP-Render01/jobsData/61533d01b137185b3007e347/Patio_Chair_Lighting_PUB.ma line 75214: setAttr: No object matches name: .ppa
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: WARNING: Strict error checking off, ignoring the following error or warning.
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: STDOUT: Error: file: C:/ProgramData/Thinkbox/Deadline10/workers/L40-CP-Render01/jobsData/61533d01b137185b3007e347/Patio_Chair_Lighting_PUB.ma line 75514: The simpleSelector 'collection11_shapesSelector' has no '.ppa' attribute.
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: WARNING: Strict error checking off, ignoring the following error or warning.
2021-09-28 12:11:49: 0: STDOUT: Error: file: C:/ProgramData/Thinkbox/Deadline10/workers/L40-CP-Render01/jobsData/61533d01b137185b3007e347/Patio_Chair_Lighting_PUB.ma line 75514: setAttr: No object matches name: .ppa
The offending sections in the .ma file are:
createNode simpleSelector -n "Table2_shapesSelector";
rename -uid "CD229FBC-42C5-5D0F-CEAF-05B3BBA79988";
setAttr ".pat" -type "string" "*";
setAttr ".ppa" -type "string" "*";
setAttr ".tf" 2;
createNode simpleSelector -n "collection5_shapesSelector";
rename -uid "6966A35D-4DE0-52D6-E1B7-29992AC1EF2A";
setAttr ".pat" -type "string" "*";
setAttr ".ppa" -type "string" "*";
setAttr ".tf" 2;
createNode simpleSelector -n "collection11_shapesSelector";
rename -uid "D4A63096-4971-305A-AA4B-4C9E01FB6E2E";
setAttr ".pat" -type "string" "*";
setAttr ".ppa" -type "string" "*";
setAttr ".tf" 2;
I can’t find any documentation about what that attribute is supposed to be referring to or why one machine wouldn’t know what it meant while the others do.
Any ideas?