Deadline 4 error

Deadline
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Hi.
Struggling with an issue.
Just upgraded to Deadline 4, finally! Removed all the old repository, installed new clients on renderfarm.
So far, so good.
Now i’m getting error codes with the following on a handful of machines. Out of 17 workstation machines, around 10 exhibit this, the others are fine. All same spec, all installed the same way, or so i thought:

[i]Scheduler Thread - Synchronizing job files
Scheduler Thread - Synchronization time for job files: 15.626 ms
Scheduler Thread - Synchronizing plugin files
Scheduler Thread - Synchronization time for plugin files: 343.768 ms
Constructor: 3dsmax
0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: 10564_TEST (001_088_001_204ceb36)
0: INFO: StartJob: initializing script plugin 3dsmax
0: INFO: About: 3dsmax Plugin for Deadline
0: INFO: Start Job called - starting up 3dsmax plugin
0: INFO: Rendering with 3dsmax version: 2010
0: INFO: Build of 3dsmax to force: 64bit
0: INFO: Rendering with executable: D:\3dsMax2010\64bit\3dsmax.exe
0: INFO: Checking registry for 3dsmax language code
0: INFO: Found language code: 409
0: INFO: Language code string: enu
0: INFO: Fail on existing 3dsmax process: 0
0: INFO: Load 3dsmax timeout: 1000 seconds
0: INFO: Start job timeout: 1000 seconds
0: INFO: Progress update timeout: 8000 seconds
0: INFO: Progress update timout disabled: 0
0: INFO: Slave mode enabled: 1
0: INFO: Silent mode enabled: 0
0: INFO: Local rendering enabled: 1
0: INFO: Strict 3dsmax check enabled: 1
0: INFO: Verifying installation of 3dsmax 2010 at D:\3dsMax2010\64bit
0: INFO: Version of core.dll: 12.1.0.310
0: INFO: Ensuring 3dsmax install is valid
Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:
Scheduler Thread - An error occurred in StartJob(): Illegal characters in path.

Exception Details RenderPluginException – An error occurred in StartJob(): Illegal characters in path. RenderPluginException.Cause: JobError (2) Exception.Data: ( ) Exception.TargetSite: Void StartJob(Deadline.Jobs.Job) Exception.Source: deadline Exception.StackTrace: at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.StartJob(Job job) at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.StartJob(Job job) at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask() <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<[/i]

All the other computers and rendernodes, work perfectly. Except these ones.

Any help would be great!

Cheers

Tim

The Neighbourhood

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Hi Tim,

A couple of things to try:

  1. Disable the “Check That 3dsmax Installation Is Valid” option in the 3dsmax plugin configuration in the Monitor:
    software.primefocusworld.com/sof … figuration

While this won’t fix the problem, it may avoid it.

  1. Check your PATH environment variable on those problematic machines. It could be that they contain a path with illegal characters in them, and that’s what is tripping up Deadline. Ideally, if this is the case, we should fix Deadline so that it doesn’t crash the render in this case.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Hi Ryan

Thats done it. Looks like option 2. was the cause.Found an errant " in the path variable. We have been batching out come stuff, and looks like it slipped though as a typo!

Thanks for quick response. Problem solved! :smiley:

Tim

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Great! We were able to reproduce the problem here with illegal characters in PATH as well, so we’ll fix it in 4.1 so that this doesn’t cause Deadline headaches.

Thanks for finding this bug!

  • Ryan