3dsmax2011 and Deadline 4.0 SP1 unable to render

Deadline
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in the last few days (with bobos help) we got max2010 and deadline 4.0 SP1 working smoothly.

we jumped in and upgraded to max2011 to test before production use
and now i cant render at all on the wall (1 XP test machine), brazil or default renderer…

i have tried rendering locally on this machine (loading max and rendering) and thats fine.

this is the report from deadline

Error Message
An error occurred in StartJob(): 3dsmax startup: Error getting connection from 3dsmax: Monitored managed process “3dsmaxProcess” has exited or been terminated.
2010/05/26 16:02:24 DBG: Starting network
2010/05/26 16:02:24 ERR: Error loading *.max file
2010/05/26 16:03:02 INF: SYSTEM: Production renderer is changed to Default Scanline Renderer. Previous messages are cleared.
2010/05/26 16:03:02 DBG: Stop network

Slave Log
Argument: -p “dl.ini” -q -s “C:\Documents and Settings\TEMP\Local Settings\Application Data\Prime Focus\Deadline\slave\plugins\deadlineStartupMax2011.max”
0: INFO: Startup Directory: “C:\3dsMax2011-64”
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process is now running
0: INFO: Waiting for connection from 3dsmax
---- May 26 2010 – 04:03 PM ----
0: STDOUT: ---------------------------
0: STDOUT: Havok - Build (0)
0: STDOUT: Base system initialized.
0: STDOUT: ----------------------------
0: STDOUT: ---------------------------
0: STDOUT: Havok - Build (0)
0: STDOUT: Base system initialized.
0: STDOUT: ----------------------------
0: STDOUT: ---------------------------
0: STDOUT: Havok - Build (0)
0: STDOUT: Base system initialized.
0: STDOUT: ----------------------------
0: STDOUT: ---------------------------
0: STDOUT: Havok - Build (0)
0: STDOUT: Base system initialized.
0: STDOUT: ----------------------------
0: STDOUT: ---------------------------
0: STDOUT: Havok - Build (0)
0: STDOUT: Base system initialized.
0: STDOUT: ----------------------------
0: STDOUT: ---------------------------
0: STDOUT: Havok - Build (0)
0: STDOUT: Base system initialized.
0: STDOUT: ----------------------------
0: STDOUT: ---------------------------
0: STDOUT: Havok - Build (0)
0: STDOUT: Base system initialized.
0: STDOUT: ----------------------------
0: WARNING: Monitored managed process 3dsmaxProcess is no longer running
Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:
Scheduler Thread - An error occurred in StartJob(): 3dsmax startup: Error getting connection from 3dsmax: Monitored managed process “3dsmaxProcess” has exited or been terminated.
2010/05/26 16:02:24 DBG: Starting network

2010/05/26 16:02:24 ERR: Error loading *.max file

2010/05/26 16:03:02 INF: SYSTEM: Production renderer is changed to Default Scanline Renderer. Previous messages are cleared.

2010/05/26 16:03:02 DBG: Stop network

Error Type
RenderPluginException

Error Stack Trace
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.StartJob(Job job)
at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.StartJob(Job job)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()

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I have to ask the same question I asked in your other post:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3965#p15861

Did you install the Deadline 4.0 SP1 repository over top of your existing 3.1 repository? If you did, can you try setting up a “fresh” 4.0 SP1 repository and see if the problem continues?

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Hi Ryan…

All sorted… Max2010 and Max2011 rendering fine (even changing the .py back to the original)

I talked with the IT guys and it seems the deadline 4.0 SP1 install was on a totally fresh linux machine.
So no upgrading or overinstalling.

They did report an early permissions error, but thought these were fixed with some recursive permissions command (sorry im not a linux user, if you want more details for future, let me know)
This afternoon they deleted all the files in the repository and re-installed… worked like a charm…
What they think is, that running the recursive permissions command maybe still held a ‘user’ profile and not an ‘owner’ (they banded round numbers 700 and 777). So newly added files got screwed up permissions. The re-install on the re-configured samba (??) mustve corrected the permissions.

Again im sorry for being vague… or misquoting through recollection… Please let me know if you need proper details… otherwise - all good now!

Thanks for your help.

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No problem! Glad to hear that everything is working now.

Cheers,

  • Ryan