Deadline-Houdini issue

Deadline
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Hi there,
We’re trying to render out an houdini project using deadline, but for some reasons doesn’t work. It works fine with after effects.
This is the error reports from the job:

Error Message

Exception during render: An error occurred in RenderTasks(): Error in CheckExitCode(): Renderer returned non-zero error code, 134. Check the log for more information.
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks (System.String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, System.String& outMessage) [0x00000] in :0

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Slave Log

0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: test_2 (999_050_999_5c42f2ec)
0: INFO: StartJob: initializing script plugin Houdini
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “(Couldn’t find renderer.)" will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression "(Error: .)” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “.(No licenses could be found to run this application).” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “(Error: Unknown option:.*)” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “.Rendering Frame ([0-9]+).” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “.Finished Rendering.” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “.Streaming SIMD Extensions Not Enabled.” will be handled by pressing “OK”
0: INFO: About: Houdini Plugin for Deadline
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1
0: INFO: Starting Houdini Job
0: INFO: Stdout Handling Enabled: True
0: INFO: Popup Handling Enabled: True
0: INFO: Using Process Tree: True
0: INFO: Hiding DOS Window: True
0: INFO: Creating New Console: False
0: INFO: Enforcing 64 bit build
0: INFO: Render Executable: “/Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Resources/bin/hython”
0: INFO: Render Argument: “/Users/speers/Deadline/slave/Macintosh/plugins/hrender_dl.py” -f 1 1 1 -d out/mantra1 “/Volumes/ifs/TESTA/backup/projects/TESTD_1.hip”
0: INFO: Startup Directory: “/Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Resources/bin”
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process Affinity: default
0: INFO: Process is now running
0: STDOUT: Could not find platform independent libraries
0: STDOUT: Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
0: STDOUT: Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to [:<exec_prefix>]
0: STDOUT: ‘import site’ failed; use -v for traceback
0: STDOUT: Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
0: INFO: Process exit code: 134

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Error Type

RenderPluginException

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Error Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask (System.String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame) [0x00000] in :0
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask (Deadline.IO.TaskLogWriter tlw) [0x00000] in :0

Any advices??? thanks in advance.

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This sounds like some sort of Houdini/Python conflict on the machine. Can you run the ‘hython’ interpreter from a terminal on this machine? Just open up a terminal and run this:

/Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Resources/bin/hython

That should open a hython interpreter shell. I’m just curious to see if you get the same error.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Thanks for your help russel, this is what I get running hyton in the terminal:

No licenses could be found to run this application.
Please check for a valid license server host

What can I do???

4

As far as I know, hython uses hbatch licenses, so you would need to have some available.

As an alternative, you can export to IFD files and render them with Deadline’s Mantra standalone support. This uses Mantra licenses instead if you have those available.

5

It actually works using the IFDs but we’re having another problem, it’s not writing out any files, even if we specify another output file pathway. Could be a problem related to the IFDs or deadline?
Thaks again

6

Solved it, the pathay wasn’t specified in the .hou project. Thanks again for your help