Deadline slave crashes using Vista & Blender

I have spent about 5 hours trying to troubleshoot this, and I give up. I am running on a brand new install of Vista 32 with all the latest patches and updates. Using the latest version of Blender.

I installed on an XP box and it worked right away. It’s only Vista machines I get this problem with.

Here is the log…after the log I will list everything I have tried.

Error Message
Exception during render: An error occurred in RenderTasks(): Error in CheckExitCode(): Renderer returned non-zero error code, 1 (FranticX.Processes.ManagedProcessAbort) (Deadline.Plugins.RenderPluginException)
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks(Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, String& outMessage)

Slave Log
unning
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
---- March 21 2009 – 03:43 PM ----
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
---- March 21 2009 – 03:44 PM ----
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
---- March 21 2009 – 03:45 PM ----
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
---- March 21 2009 – 03:46 PM ----
0: STDOUT: Compiled with Python version 2.5.2.
0: STDOUT: Checking for installed Python… got it!
0: STDOUT: Unable to create directory
0: STDOUT:
0: STDOUT: Unable to create directory
0: STDOUT:
0: STDOUT: Unable to create directory
0: STDOUT:
0: STDOUT: Unable to create directory
0: STDOUT:
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
---- March 21 2009 – 03:47 PM ----
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
---- March 21 2009 – 03:48 PM ----
FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.
0: STDOUT: Append frame 21 Time: 05:52.80
0: STDOUT:
0: STDOUT: Blender quit
0: INFO: Process exit code: 1
Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:
Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: An error occurred in RenderTasks(): Error in CheckExitCode(): Renderer returned non-zero error code, 1 (FranticX.Processes.ManagedProcessAbort) (Deadline.Plugins.RenderPluginException)
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks(Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, String& outMessage)

Error Type
RenderPluginException

Error Stack Trace
at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()

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Stuff I have tried…and yes I know some of this was not necessary but I like to be through.

  • Set Everyone Full Control on Python, Blender, and Deadline directories
  • Went back to Python version 2.5.4 even though 2.6.1 works fine on XP
  • Ran slave from command line
  • Clean install of everything including Vista
  • Rebooted before each try
  • Set Python directory in PATH variable
  • Opened blend file in Blender to make sure the machine could render it seperately (it does)

A little help please?

Thanks

Cain

A few more notes:

The render gets about 25% into it before it crashes.

The “0: STDOUT: Unable to create directory” part of the log seems like a clue but I have no idea what it’s trying to create.

lol I just had a facepalm moment.

I guess I just needed to put all this down in writing so I could get perspective.

the reason it is not working is because the new vista machines do not have D drives, and that is what the blend project output is set to. and of course, the one machine I actually opened the file on to test (and had a D drive) was not the same one that was having the problem (that did not).

sigh

sometimes I guess you really just do have to take a step back.

all fixey fixed now.

great program, thanks!