Deadline 10.1.21.4 and Houdini 19.0.624 cannot render with PDG and Spot Plugin

[Andrew_Graham]

I decided to revert back to H18.5 until I can confirm at least UBL works, still it seems flaky. First render always fails and the log suggests permissions issues:

I created a post here for that, since its a seperate problem, but the tickets really are stacking up.

UBL has permissions issues on some files with H18.5 and 10.1.21.4

I rolled Back to H18.5 to debug UBL issues. …this is strange. when UBL checks out a license, it relies on these files below, but they have bad permissions. The only way this would work for someone else is if deadline is running as root, which we shouldn’t be doing. So I’m following best practice here by running deadline as a dedicated user, but obviously the permissions are wrong, or the process trying to access the file is not the same user that created the file. On my render node running …