Embree loading failed

anon98196434 · January 23, 2014, 8:39am

Hi,

I’m having an error that shouldn’t be fatal killing my renders on deadline 6.1. I have rendered on the slave through command line and I get the error but the render continues without failing.

The error is the following:

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Error

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error: Error loading plugin library “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\vray\vrayplugins\vray_Embree.dll” (127): The specified procedure could not be found.
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks(String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)

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Type

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RenderPluginException

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Stack Trace

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at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask(TaskLogWriter tlw)

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Full Log

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0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: export_test (52dffd2612c8ab700458dead)
0: INFO: Executing plugin script C:\Documents and Settings\boston1\Local Settings\Application Data\Thinkbox\Deadline6\slave\BOSTON1\plugins\52dffd2612c8ab700458dead\Vray.py
0: INFO: About: VRay Standalone Plugin for Deadline
0: INFO: The current environment will be used for rendering
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1
0: INFO: Starting VRay Task
0: INFO: Performing path mapping on vrscene file
0: INFO: Stdout Handling Enabled: True
0: INFO: Popup Handling Enabled: False
0: INFO: Using Process Tree: True
0: INFO: Hiding DOS Window: True
0: INFO: Creating New Console: False
0: INFO: Executable: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\vray\bin\vray.exe”
0: INFO: Argument: -scenefile=“C:\Documents and Settings\boston1\Local Settings\Application Data\Thinkbox\Deadline6\slave\BOSTON1\jobsData\52dffd2612c8ab700458dead\snow_test_03_gsdh_thread0.vrscene” -interactive=0 -display=0 -frames=1 -numThreads=0
0: INFO: Startup Directory: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\vray\bin”
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process Affinity: default
0: INFO: Process is now running

0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] Reading configuration from “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\vray\bin/vrayconfig.xml”

0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] ===============================================

0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] V-Ray Standalone, version 2.25.01 for x64
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] Copyright © 2000-2012 Chaos Group Ltd. All rights reserved.
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] Use -credits option for additional third-party copyright notices.
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58]
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] Build 24089 from Jan 21 2014, 05:44:47
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] Compiled with Intel C++ compiler, version 12
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] Operating system is Microsoft™ Windows™, version 5.2, Service Pack 2
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58]

0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] V-Ray core version is 2.00.02

0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] ===============================================

0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58]

0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] Loading plugins from “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013/vray/vrayplugins/vray_.dll"
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] error: Error loading plugin library “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\vray\vrayplugins\vray_Embree.dll” (127): The specified procedure could not be found.
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] 136 plugin(s) loaded successfully
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] Loading plugins from "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013/vray/vrayplugins/std_.dll”
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] Finished loading plugins.
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:58] Reading scene file “C:\Documents and Settings\boston1\Local Settings\Application Data\Thinkbox\Deadline6\slave\BOSTON1\jobsData\52dffd2612c8ab700458dead\snow_test_03_gsdh_thread0.vrscene”
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:59] C:\Documents and Settings\boston1\Local Settings\Application Data\Thinkbox\Deadline6\slave\BOSTON1\jobsData\52dffd2612c8ab700458dead\snow_test_03_gsdh_thread0.vrscene: done [ 0h 0m 0.1s]
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:59] Scene file parsed successfully in 0.1 s.
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:59] Scene created successfully.
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:59] Objects in scene: 686
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:59] Starting render sequence.
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:59] Preparing renderer…
0: STDOUT: [2014/Jan/22|17:17:59] Creating bitmap manager

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Details

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Date: 01/22/2014 17:18:00
Frames: 1
Elapsed Time: 00:00:00:04
Job Submit Date: 01/22/2014 17:17:26
Job User: kturner
Average RAM Usage: 1342660608 (8%)
Peak RAM Usage: 1353830400 (8%)
Average CPU Usage: 6%
Peak CPU Usage: 12%

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Slave Information

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Slave Name: BOSTON1
Version: v6.1.0.54482 R
Operating System: R WindowsR XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2)
Machine User: boston1
IP Address: 192.168.10.21
MAC Address: 00:30:48:C5:F6:2A
CPU Architecture: x64
CPUs: 8
CPU Usage: 1%
Memory Usage: 1.2 GB / 16.0 GB (7%)
Free Disk Space: 38.153 GB
Video Card: ATI ES1000

Is there any way of ignoring this error and successfully completing the render?

thanks,

-K

rrussell · January 23, 2014, 1:59pm

You could modify the VRay plugin for Deadline to disable this error handling, but that would mean that any line of stdout that starts with “error:” would be ignored. Ideally, it would be better to determine why that error message is happening in the first place and rectify it. If that’s something you don’t have time for right now though, here’s how you can disable the error checking:

Go to \your\repository\plugins\VRay and open VRay.py in a text editor.
Find this line of code:

        self.AddStdoutHandlerCallback("error:.*").HandleCallback += self.HandleStdoutError

Comment it out so that it looks like this:

        #self.AddStdoutHandlerCallback("error:.*").HandleCallback += self.HandleStdoutError

Save the file and try rendering again.

Cheers,
Ryan

anon98196434 · January 23, 2014, 4:56pm

Thanks for the reply,

I’m giving it a go now.

-K

anon98196434 · January 23, 2014, 5:22pm

Hi Ryan,

That fixed that problem which is great, I’m going to try some more intensive renders to see how it reacts.

I’m having one other with the Vray Export job throwing up an error. It says it’s not fatal so maybe there is a simple way of ignore this one too. I’ve consulted support but as I’m running the beta they said I should post here. I export using the plugin shelf button for maya, the job starts running then I get the following error.

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Error

Error in RenderTasks: Strict error checking on, caught the following error or warning.
Error: file: C:/Documents and Settings/boston2/Local Settings/Temp/tmp204D.tmp line 39: Render failed.
If this error message is unavoidable but not fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message, and disable the Maya job setting Strict Error Checking.
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks(String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)

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Type

RenderPluginException

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Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask(TaskLogWriter tlw)

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Full Log

0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: VR_scene_basic_01_DL_test - plateCamera (52e14dcb12c8ab8f38742e46)
0: INFO: Executing plugin script C:\Documents and Settings\boston2\Local Settings\Application Data\Thinkbox\Deadline6\slave\BOSTON2\plugins\52e14dcb12c8ab8f38742e46\MayaBatch.py
0: INFO: About: Maya Batch Plugin for Deadline
0: INFO: The current environment will be used for rendering
0: INFO: Rendering with Maya version 2013.0
0: INFO: Enforcing 64 bit build of Maya
0: INFO: Setting PYTHONHOME to C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\Python for this session
0: INFO: Starting monitored managed process MayaBatch
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 of Maya
0: INFO: Executable: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin\MayaBatch.exe”
0: INFO: Argument: -prompt -file “Z:\custom_shaders\VRAY\VR_scene_basic_01_DL_test.mb” -proj “X:/12-106_MAWE_LA_Nighttime_CGI/MAYA”
0: INFO: Startup Directory: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin”
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process Affinity: default
0: INFO: Process is now running
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1
0: INFO: Waiting until maya is ready to go
0: STDOUT: mental ray for Maya 2013
0: STDOUT: mental ray: version 3.10.1.11, Jul 26 2012, revision 177995
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: if not "layering_mi_included"Error: line 1: RuntimeError: file line 1: Plug-in, “vrayformaya.mll”, was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘VRay_IBL’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘VRayMtlWrapper_Shadow’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vraySettings’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘VRay_shadow_base’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘VRayPlaceEnvTex1’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Reflection’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Refraction’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Specular’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Lighting’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Normals’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Z_depth’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Multi_Matte’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Multi_Matte1’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Multi_Matte2’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Multi_Matte3’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Multi_Matte4’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Extra_Tex_Occ’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘VRay_Occlusion’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Extra_Tex_Fren’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘VRay_Fresnel’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘vrayRE_Multi_Matte5’; preserving node information during this session.
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node ‘VRayPlaceEnvTex2’; preserving node information during this session.
0: STDOUT: File read in 0 seconds.
0: STDOUT: Result: Z:/custom_shaders/VRAY/VR_scene_basic_01_DL_test.mb
0: STDOUT: mel: READY FOR INPUT
0: INFO: Rendering with vrayexport
0: INFO: Rendering to network drive
0: INFO: Creating melscript to execute
0: INFO: Executing script: C:\Documents and Settings\boston2\Local Settings\Temp\tmp204D.tmp
0: INFO: Waiting for script to finish
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: mel: Error: file: C:/Documents and Settings/boston2/Local Settings/Temp/tmp204D.tmp line 7: Cannot find procedure “vrayRegisterRenderer”.
0: STDOUT: Error: file: C:/Documents and Settings/boston2/Local Settings/Temp/tmp204D.tmp line 39: Render failed.

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Details

Date: 01/23/2014 17:14:05
Frames: 1
Elapsed Time: 00:00:00:10
Job Submit Date: 01/23/2014 17:13:47
Job User: kturner
Average RAM Usage: 1673884032 (10%)
Peak RAM Usage: 1812594688 (11%)
Average CPU Usage: 10%
Peak CPU Usage: 23%

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Slave Information

Slave Name: BOSTON2
Version: v6.1.0.54482 R
Operating System: R WindowsR XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2)
Machine User: boston2
IP Address: 192.168.10.22
MAC Address: 00:30:48:C5:F6:2C
CPU Architecture: x64
CPUs: 8
CPU Usage: 0%
Memory Usage: 1.5 GB / 16.0 GB (9%)
Free Disk Space: 76.114 GB
Video Card: ATI ES1000

Sorry to be a pain.

-K

rrussell · January 23, 2014, 7:17pm

Glad that fixed the original problem! For this new one, it looks like Maya is having issues loading the vray plugin. Can you try resubmitting the export job with the “Use MayaBatch” option disabled and post the new log that you get? This will perform a typical command line render, which might help us debug this further.

Thanks!
Ryan

anon98196434 · January 24, 2014, 7:56am

Hi Ryan,

here is the new error roport with Use MayaBatch Plugin unchecked

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Error

Error in RenderArgument: AttributeError : ‘MayaCmdPlugin’ object has no attribute ‘IsTileJob’ (Python.Runtime.PythonException)
[’ File “none”, line 219, in RenderArgument\n’]
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks(String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)

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Type

RenderPluginException

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Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.a(TaskLogWriter A_0)

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Full Log

0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: VR_scene_basic_01_DL_test (52e21c1312c8ab5b7cb26db8)
0: INFO: Executing plugin script C:\Users\boston11\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline6\slave\BOSTON11\plugins\MayaCmd.py
0: INFO: About: Maya Cmd Plugin for Deadline
0: INFO: The current environment will be used for rendering
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1
0: INFO: Enforcing 64 bit build of Maya
0: INFO: Setting PYTHONHOME to C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\Python for this session
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 of Maya
0: INFO: Render Executable: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin\Render.exe”
0: INFO: Rendering to network drive
0: INFO: Rendering with Maya version 2013.0

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Details

Date: 01/24/2014 07:54:02
Frames: 1
Elapsed Time: 00:00:00:03
Job Submit Date: 01/24/2014 07:53:56
Job User: kturner
Average RAM Usage: 1847406592 (8%)
Peak RAM Usage: 1847406592 (8%)
Average CPU Usage: 0%
Peak CPU Usage: 0%
Slave Name: BOSTON11
Slave Version: v6.0.0.51561 R

MikeOwen · January 24, 2014, 8:49am

This slave seems to be running v6.0 which would explain this error?

anon98196434 · January 24, 2014, 9:06am

Sorry, wrong pool, different error.

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Error

Error in CheckExitCode: Renderer returned non-zero error code 208. Check the renderer’s output.
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks(String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)

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Type

RenderPluginException

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Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask(TaskLogWriter tlw)

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Full Log

0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: VR_scene_basic_01_DL_test (52e22cb812c8ab46ec3636aa)
0: INFO: Executing plugin script C:\Documents and Settings\boston2\Local Settings\Application Data\Thinkbox\Deadline6\slave\BOSTON2\plugins\52e22cb812c8ab46ec3636aa\MayaCmd.py
0: INFO: About: Maya Cmd Plugin for Deadline
0: INFO: The current environment will be used for rendering
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1
0: INFO: Enforcing 64 bit build of Maya
0: INFO: Setting PYTHONHOME to C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\Python for this session
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 of Maya
0: INFO: Executable: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin\Render.exe”
0: INFO: Rendering to network drive
0: INFO: Rendering with Maya version 2013.0
0: INFO: Exporting with VRay
0: INFO: Argument: -r vray -exportFileName “X:/12-106_MAWE_LA_Nighttime_CGI/MAYA/renderData/temp/test_scene.vrscene” -noRender -x 2400 -y 1800 -rd “X:/12-106_MAWE_LA_Nighttime_CGI/MAYA/RENDERS” -im “%s_%l” -proj “X:/12-106_MAWE_LA_Nighttime_CGI/MAYA” “Z:\custom_shaders\VRAY\VR_scene_basic_01_DL_test.mb”
0: INFO: Startup Directory: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin”
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process Affinity: default
0: INFO: Process is now running
0: STDOUT: Cannot open renderer description file “vrayRenderer.xml”
0: INFO: Process exit code: 208

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Details

Date: 01/24/2014 09:05:23
Frames: 1
Elapsed Time: 00:00:00:03
Job Submit Date: 01/24/2014 09:04:55
Job User: kturner
Average RAM Usage: 1632904192 (10%)
Peak RAM Usage: 1633021952 (10%)
Average CPU Usage: 3%
Peak CPU Usage: 8%

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Slave Information

Slave Name: BOSTON2
Version: v6.1.0.54482 R
Operating System: R WindowsR XP Professional x64 Edition (SP2)
Machine User: boston2
IP Address: 192.168.10.22
MAC Address: 00:30:48:C5:F6:2C
CPU Architecture: x64
CPUs: 8
CPU Usage: 0%
Memory Usage: 1.5 GB / 16.0 GB (9%)
Free Disk Space: 76.112 GB
Video Card: ATI ES1000

MikeOwen · January 24, 2014, 9:48am

Hi,
Could you walk me through how you have installed VRay onto all your machines including slaves? These errors are all starting to look like a corrupt install of VRay.
Could you show the output from running the command “set” in a command prompt on a problem machine? You can re-direct it to a text file by typing in a DOS prompt:

set > c:\output.txt

and send us the text file. I’m hoping to see various env variables for VRay here.

Maya is failing to find the “vrayRenderer.xml” file, which we can work around by injecting a sys env variable into your machine:

MAYA_RENDER_DESC_PATH=“c:\path\to\your\rendererDesc”

or indeed we can add the above environment variable under job properties, “environment” > “add” > and type in a key=value pair such as above, so that the environment variable is injected into your slaves when running this job.

However, this is all side-stepping the original issue here.

anon98196434 · January 24, 2014, 10:30am

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply, I’ve attached the txt file, now I’m just trying the new env variable.

I’ll let you know how it goes in a few minutes.

-K
output.txt (2.67 KB)

anon98196434 · January 24, 2014, 11:12am

Hmm no luck.

I’ve installed Vray using the normal installer on each node and it was running fine before moving to 6.1. I can also submit Vray jobs that render fine, it’s just the maya export that doesn’t work.

-K

rrussell · January 24, 2014, 3:28pm

Have you tried restarting the machine since you re-installed VRay? The slave won’t recognize any new environment variables until it gets restarted, and restarting the machine will ensure that everything is “refreshed”.

If you still get this same error, can you open a command prompt on one of the render nodes and do these two things:

Change directories to “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin”

cd "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin"

Run the following command:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin\Render.exe" -r vray -exportFileName "X:/12-106_MAWE_LA_Nighttime_CGI/MAYA/renderData/temp/test_scene.vrscene" -noRender -x 2400 -y 1800 -rd "X:/12-106_MAWE_LA_Nighttime_CGI/MAYA/RENDERS" -im "%s_%l" -proj "X:/12-106_MAWE_LA_Nighttime_CGI/MAYA" "Z:\custom_shaders\VRAY\VR_scene_basic_01_DL_test.mb"

This is the exact command that Deadline is running, so I’m curious to see if it works outside of Deadline.

Thanks!
Ryan

anon98196434 · January 24, 2014, 4:57pm

Hi Ryan,

I restarted every machine after intallation and have just done again just in case. I got a bit worried when they couldn’t find the Repository straight away but that sorted itself out.

I tried running through command line for you and got the following result. Suffice to say it failed, so there is a problem here outside of Deadline.

C:\Documents and Settings\boston1>cd “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin”

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin>“C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin\R
ender.exe” -r vray -exportFileName “X:/12-106_MAWE_LA_Nighttime_CGI/MAYA/renderD
ata/temp/test_scene.vrscene” -noRender -x 2400 -y 1800 -rd “X:/12-106_MAWE_LA_Ni
ghttime_CGI/MAYA/RENDERS” -im “%s_%l” -proj “X:/12-106_MAWE_LA_Nighttime_CGI/MAY
A” “Z:\custom_shaders\VRAY\VR_scene_basic_01_DL_test.mb” > z:\output.txt

Starting “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\bin\mayabatch.exe”
// Maya exited with status -1073741819

I’m not sure what the exit status means but it’s something I need to forward to Autodesk.

I’ve come across another problem.

I have a farm of 12 machines, the first 8 of which run on XPpro and the final 4 on Win7. It makes sense that the XP nodes were unable to run Embree so threw up the first error, but there seems to be a new issue. I’m running a car 360 animation and the first 8 nodes complete there assigned frames, then throw up an error (even though they have already written the rendered files) and re-queue thos same frames. So they just re-render the same images again and again.

But this doesn’t happen on the nodes running Windows 7, strange huh?

rrussell · January 24, 2014, 8:47pm

I’m guessing those XP machines are reporting some sort of error after they have already written the frame, so Deadline just assumes there was a problem and requeues the task so it can try again.

Do you happen to have an error report for the job from when it ran on an XP machine?

Thanks!
Ryan

anon98196434 · January 27, 2014, 7:59am

Hi Ryan,

I’ve rolled back to a previous stable version of Vray and with the help of the submitter ignoring Strict errors everything seems to be running, including the XP error. I have notified Chaos group about the issues with the copy we were running and they are checking it out. If I get anything constructive back I’ll post it here.

Thanks again for all your help, both you and Mike.

-K