I setup a job to use \\MaxPath\%Major_Version%_RENDER for the environment variables, and now the farm won’t render. It says major error with our remote connection SSL Cert. But that’s false because the monitor and workers still launch but the job fail to render. Rebooting and removing the env variable entirely seems to fix the issue.
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Error
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Failed to load the plugin because: Could not initialize the plugin sandbox (Deadline.Plugins.PluginException)
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Type
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RenderPluginException
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Stack Trace
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at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.e(String akc, Job akd, CancellationToken ake)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.b(TaskLogWriter ajy, CancellationToken ajz)
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Log
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2025-12-04 11:12:10: 0: Loading Job's Plugin timeout is Disabled
2025-12-04 11:12:10: 0: SandboxedPlugin: Render Job As User disabled, running as current user 'ggreenwalt'
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: Failed to properly create shared Deadline home folder 'Thinkbox\Deadline10' because: Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Thinkbox\Deadline10\bin\Thinkbox\Deadline10' is denied. (System.UnauthorizedAccessException)
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: Failed to properly create Deadline logs folder 'Thinkbox\Deadline10\logs' because: Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Thinkbox\Deadline10\bin\Thinkbox\Deadline10\logs' is denied. (System.UnauthorizedAccessException)
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: Failed to properly create Deadline Worker config folder 'Thinkbox\Deadline10\slaves' because: Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Thinkbox\Deadline10\bin\Thinkbox\Deadline10\slaves' is denied. (System.UnauthorizedAccessException)
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: Failed to properly create Deadline Worker data folder 'Thinkbox\Deadline10\workers' because: The SlaveDataRoot path in the deadline.ini file isn't a rooted path. (Deadline.Configuration.DeadlineConfigException)
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: Deadline.Configuration.DeadlineConfigException: Error encountered when loading the configured Client Certificate (C:/ProgramData/Thinkbox/sfRemoteClient.pfx). It is likely either an invalid x.509 certificate, or the wrong passphrase was provided.
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: Full Error:
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: Cannot find the requested object.
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: at Deadline.Configuration.RepositoryConnectionSettings.d(a dhz, String dia, String dib, X509Certificate2& dic)
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: at Deadline.Configuration.RepositoryConnectionSettings.c(X509Certificate2& dhy)
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: at Deadline.Controllers.RemoteDataController..ctor(RepositoryConnectionSettings settings)
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: at Deadline.Applications.DeadlineApplicationManager.CreateDataController(RepositoryConnectionSettings connSettings)
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: at Deadline.Applications.DeadlineApplicationManager.Connect(RepositoryConnectionSettings connSettings, Boolean updateScriptManager)
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: at Deadline.Sandbox.SandboxManager.Connect(RepositoryConnectionSettings connSettings, Boolean updateScriptManager)
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: at DeadlinePython.DeadlineSandboxApp.a(CommandLineParser a)
2025-12-04 11:12:11: 0: at DeadlinePython.DeadlineSandboxAppStartup.Main(String[] args)