"Aborting on license fail" still flag the frame as completed

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Hello !

We have some trouble with frames mark as completed but not written to disk.
There is various situations when it can happen, but one easy to report is when the render is aborted because of license fail (arnold), but still marked as completed. please see below.

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Thanks for any advices !

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Hm it is odd that this was not caught as an error. The plugin has a list of regexes that will trigger an error. Look around line 2487 of MayaBatch, there are a bunch of statements like this:

self.AddStdoutHandlerCallback( ".*Error: .*|.*Warning: .*" ).HandleCallback += self.HandleErrorMessage

You need to modify one of the regexes or add a new one.

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Thanks mois for the tip ! I’m going to investigate the regexes trigger

We also have another recurring error. (let me know if i should make another post for it).

Some of our characters abcs “glitch”. It happen on around 10% of the frame.
The model “pop” to a specific frame then go back to it’s normal animation.

We use local caching and motion blur.
We also have a maya script node that repath the alembic path when the scene open to the correct animated abc for the shot.

When we requeue the popping frame, it’s fixe the issue.

Any ideas ?

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I am not knowledgeable of Maya.
It might be related to the motion blur (test without it) or the normals are wrong? I dunno.

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STDOUT: Error: line 1: ERROR | aborting render because the abort_on_license_fail option was enabled

Im having the same issue, Im not activating el “abort on license fail” option in the render config

and the task is marked as completed, so now i have to manually check my sequence to see the frames that are wrong

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Same issue (Deadline 10.3.0.9)

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For those that that don’t know what files and locations are being discussed above, this is what I did to solve this issue:

go to “[DeadlineRepsoitory]\plugins\MayaBatch\MayaBatch.py”

make a copy of the file as a backup.

open original file in a code editor, I used Visual Studio. Go to line 2497 and add this line:

self.AddStdoutHandlerCallback( "aborting render because this is a batch render and abort_on_license_fail option is enabled" ).HandleCallback += self.HandleFatalError

save and run a job. Tasks that do not have a license should now fail as expected.

I’m not a code-savvy person by any means, but I find it helpful when there’s explicit instructions, so thought I’d add that in :slight_smile:

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