After Effects 2022 CPU renders failing

Deadline
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System spec
Deadline 10.1.23.6
Windows 10
After Effects 2022

Submitting an After effects 2002 project to CPU Render Farm results in the following error,

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Error

FailRenderException : aerender ERROR An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
at Deadline.Plugins.DeadlinePlugin.FailRender(String message) (Python.Runtime.PythonException)
File “C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline10\workers\SC-Neom-CPU-001\plugins\638e2d864c9a4e3ec01e24ef\AfterEffects.py”, line 577, in HandleStdoutError
self.FailAERender( self.GetRegexMatch(0) )
File “C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline10\workers\SC-Neom-CPU-001\plugins\638e2d864c9a4e3ec01e24ef\AfterEffects.py”, line 498, in FailAERender
self.FailRender( message )
at Python.Runtime.Dispatcher.Dispatch(ArrayList args)
at __FranticX_Processes_ManagedProcess_StdoutHandlerDelegateDispatcher.Invoke()
at FranticX.Processes.ManagedProcess.RegexHandlerCallback.CallFunction()
at FranticX.Processes.ManagedProcess.e(String di, Boolean dj)
at FranticX.Processes.ManagedProcess.Execute(Boolean waitForExit)
at Deadline.Plugins.DeadlinePlugin.DoRenderTasks()
at Deadline.Plugins.PluginWrapper.RenderTasks(Task task, String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)
at Deadline.Plugins.PluginWrapper.RenderTasks(Task task, String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)

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Type

RenderPluginException

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Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.SandboxedPlugin.d(DeadlineMessage bgj, CancellationToken bgk)
at Deadline.Plugins.SandboxedPlugin.RenderTask(Task task, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.c(TaskLogWriter ajq, CancellationToken ajr)

Rendering using GPU completes successfully. Any ideas as to why this is failing?

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Hello!

It’s hard to say without the full log, but the “An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.” means some kind of network connection has either failed or been denied.

If you go back into the log, what’s the last thing we see from After Effects before the task is failed? You’ll know it’s from After Effects because the line starts with STDOUT:

Thanks!