deadlinecommand

Deadline
1

Hello Ryan,

I’m trying to use deadlinecommand from a linux shell to send jobs as I was doing in version 3.1 but i’m getting the error:

[code]Submitting Job Drop to Repository: /mnt/deadline4/

Submission Contains the Following:
0) Submission File #0 ("/tmp/1")

  1. Submission File #1 ("/tmp/1_1")
    Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object (System.NullReferenceException)
    [/code]

submission files “1” and “1_1” are the same I was using for old version and I used to send these files using the command “deadlinecommand /tmp/1 /tmp/1_1” but now it seems that I have to include a new argument to send the files and I’m not sure which one. The error I’m getting up here is when using “deadlinecommand Drop /tmp/1 /tmp/1_1”

The job is a custom CommandLine job that will launch an installed application on the slave.

I’m not really understanding the error so I have no clue where to begin to diagnose, can you help me out?

Thanks

2

What’s the error you get when you run “deadlinecommand /tmp/1 /tmp/1_1”? That should still work in version 4.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
3

It’s almost the same error

[code]# /usr/local/Prime_Focus/Deadline/bin/deadlinecommand /tmp/1 /tmp/1_1
Deadline Command 4.1 [v4.1.0.43205 R]

Submitting to Repository: /mnt/deadline4/

Submission Contains the Following:

  1. Auxiliary File #1 ("/tmp/1_1")
    Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object (System.NullReferenceException)
    [/code]
4

Can you post the contents of those two files you’re passing to it? Maybe there is something in them that Deadline isn’t handling properly. If they contain sensitive data, please feel free to email them to our support mailing list:
software.primefocusworld.com/sof … e/contact/

Cheers,

  • Ryan
5

Hi Ryan,

I finished by finding the problem, It was the fact that i’m specifying to render frames “1-1” when there is no frames for my script and I should’ve specified “0”.

The weird thing is I used to set the frames to 1-1 in version 3.1 and it worked correctly but it don’t in this version.

Anyway it works now so thanks :slight_smile:

6

Weird. I can’t reproduce this error here (even when setting the frame list to 1-1). Anyways, glad to hear it’s working, and if you still want to upload the files that originally caused this error, we will investigate further.

Cheers,

  • Ryan