Deadline 8 & Fusion 8

Deadline
1

We have recently updated to Deadline 8 and we’re having issues getting Fusion 8 working.

The job starts on the render machine but immediately fails with the following error in the log…

2016-09-15 11:41:44: 0: Done executing plugin command of type ‘Start Job’
2016-09-15 11:41:46: Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw a major error:
2016-09-15 11:41:46: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
2016-09-15 11:41:46: Exception Details
2016-09-15 11:41:46: RenderPluginException – Error: Monitored managed process “Fusion” has exited or been terminated.
2016-09-15 11:41:46: at Deadline.Plugins.PluginWrapper.StartJob(String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)
2016-09-15 11:41:46: RenderPluginException.Cause: JobError (2)
2016-09-15 11:41:46: RenderPluginException.Level: Major (1)

We’ve updated to Fusion 8.2 but this hasn’t fixed the issue.

2

More of the log would be helpful here. Can you send along a job report?

This part of the log says “a problem happened” without actually telling us what fusion said the problem actually was. The job report should have all that info.

3

A few of the logs attached.

Thanks
deadlineslave-Circle24-2016-09-15-0002.log (51.4 KB)
deadlinemonitor-Circle24-2016-09-15-0000.log (5.48 KB)
deadlineslave-Circle24-2016-09-15-0003.log (63.1 KB)

4

Well, it definitely looks like this is the core problem:

2016-09-15 11:42:07:  0: STDOUT: Rendering from 10 to 14, high quality is true, proxy is 1
2016-09-15 11:42:07:  0: STDOUT: Rendering with Fusion version: 8.2	
2016-09-15 11:42:07:  0: STDOUT: ...plugins\57da7a977fdbfe36f032baa0\RenderTasks.eyeonscript:290: attempt to index global 'comp' (a nil value)

Then the Slave couldn’t close FuScript, which is a bit weird since it thought FuScript died…

Are you able to reproduce this reliably? Could you send me a sample project that reproduces and I’ll pass it to the integration team?

5

Update here: Jessy just fixed this by porting an old workaround we used to have. It should land in Service Pack 10, which is going to be a few weeks, but it is coming. Let me know if you’d like to beta test the plugin and submitter from SP10 a bit early.

6

I’m having the identical issues. How would I go about getting the plugin and submitter that is fixed?

7

Here’s the contents of the patch (pretty much just replaces the few lines for “Composition Loaded Successfully”).

 if(comp) then
 	print("Composition Loaded Successfully")
 else
 	-- GetCurrentComp() fails sometimes. This is a workaround for that issue.
 	-- This code is a workaround pulled from version 7.2. It loads the comp while avoiding an error from eyeonscript when setting comp = fl[1].
 	comp = nil;
 	for i=1, table.getn(fl), 1 do
 	    name =fl[i]:GetAttrs().COMPS_FileName 
 	    if( name ~= "")then
 	        if( name ~= nil) then
 	            comp = df:LoadComp( name, true )
 	        end
 	    end
 	end
 
 	if(comp) then
 		print( "Composition Loaded Successfully" )
 	else
 		print( "ERROR: Composition failed to load, rendering will now end." )
 		io.flush()
 		wait(5)
 		os.exit(0)
	
 	end
 end