Constant error rendering through krakatoa

Deadline
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Hi

I keep getting this error when sending krakatoa jobs through max 2012 and deadline 8. The job does render eventually but I am getting too many errors on the job. Any idea why this would happen. I am getting this across 4 nodes that have krakatoa on them.

Error

Error: Dialog popup detected: Title “DLL Initialization Fail”, Message “Fail to initialize the defer loaded gmi.dll”
at Deadline.Plugins.PluginWrapper.StartJob(String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)

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Type

RenderPluginException

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Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.SandboxedPlugin.a(DeadlineMessage A_0)
at Deadline.Plugins.SandboxedPlugin.StartJob(Job job)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.a(TaskLogWriter A_0)

2

Could it be that theres plugin that dont exist on the slave rendering?You can ignore this error by checking “Ignore Missing DLL Errors” in Render tab in DL submiter I think.

3

Thanks. I do have that ticked though.

4

It turns out its important max file so you can re-install max or replace it from here.
fix4dll.com/gmi_dll

Edit:Or from somewhere else xD.

5

dosent explain why it eventually works though. Thanks I will give it a try.

6

Thats true :>.Is it failing and then eventually rendering on the same machine?

7

Hmm. I’ve seen this, but haven’t yet figured out the cause.

The DLL in question “gmi.dll” is shipped with Max and seems to be the “Geometric modeling interface” according to it’s details in Windows. What exactly that means, I’m not certain.

Update: Arg! kmind beat me to it! You go to get coffee, and this is what happens :smiley:

One person on CGTalk had luck copying the file over from another machine:

forums.cgsociety.org/archive/ind … 54498.html

8

Oh, also! Please copy from another machine. I’m always afraid those DLL fix sites have viruses.

9

Thanks for the tip. I will try it.

10

According to this it could be already infected xD.
ifixerror.com/gfiles/272289/ … ve-it.html