I have a user seeing the following sort of error when attempting to render from Maya Complete 7.0. I’m being told that this is occuring when attempting to render files in any format other than Maya’s “native” IFF format. For example, this sort of error is cropping up on TIF’s, PNG’s, etc.
A Google search wasn’t terrible helpful. Any ideas what might cause this?
Error Message
Exception during render: Renderer returned non-zero error code, 1
Slave Log
: STDOUT: 0.375 Mb Transforms
0: STDOUT: 0.938 Mb Data Blocks
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: Automatic near/far clipping values: 0.1, 312.92.
0: STDOUT: Starting Rendering R:/renderout/daliolli/Targomobile_26.tif.
0: STDOUT: Constructing shading groups.
0: STDOUT:
0: STDOUT: Rendering current frame.
0: STDOUT: Frame triangle count: 2040
0: STDOUT:
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: Resource Usage At End Of Frame
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: 1504 Page faults
0: STDOUT: 99.789 Mb Max resident size
0: STDOUT: 95.281 Mb Peak total size(Estimated)
0: STDOUT: 7.271 Mb Peak arena size
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: 102.016 Mb Current
0: STDOUT: 2.500 Mb MEL
0: STDOUT: 0.375 Mb Transforms
0: STDOUT: 3.333 Mb Render Cache
0: STDOUT: 0.020 Mb Render Geometry Arena
0: STDOUT: 0.125 Mb Keys
0: STDOUT: 0.938 Mb Data Blocks
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: Postprocessing rendering result.
0: STDOUT: Frame triangle count: 2040
0: STDOUT:
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: Resource Usage At End Of Frame
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: 2714 Page faults
0: STDOUT: 108.953 Mb Max resident size
0: STDOUT: 95.281 Mb Peak total size(Estimated)
0: STDOUT: 7.271 Mb Peak arena size
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: 1841.414 Mb Current
0: STDOUT: 2.500 Mb MEL
0: STDOUT: 0.375 Mb Transforms
0: STDOUT: 3.333 Mb Render Cache
0: STDOUT: 0.020 Mb Render Geometry Arena
0: STDOUT: 0.125 Mb Keys
0: STDOUT: 0.938 Mb Data Blocks
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: INFO: Process return code: 1
---- March 27 2006 – 03:04 PM ----
Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:
Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: Renderer returned non-zero error code, 1
Error Type
RenderPluginException
Error Stack Trace
at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.RenderTasks(Int32 startTask, Int32 endTask)
at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()
Here’s one more error message that we saw:
Error Message
Exception during render: Renderer returned non-zero error code, 1
Slave Log
DOUT: 94.059 Mb Max resident size
0: STDOUT: 90.324 Mb Peak total size(Estimated)
0: STDOUT: 3.937 Mb Peak arena size
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: 94.059 Mb Current
0: STDOUT: 0.125 Mb Keys
0: STDOUT: 2.500 Mb MEL
0: STDOUT: 0.375 Mb Transforms
0: STDOUT: 0.938 Mb Data Blocks
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: Automatic near/far clipping values: 0.1, 312.92.
0: STDOUT: Starting Rendering R:/renderout/daliolli/Targomobile_31.png.
0: STDOUT: Constructing shading groups.
0: STDOUT:
0: STDOUT: Rendering current frame.
---- March 27 2006 – 03:15 PM ----
0: STDOUT: Frame triangle count: 2520
0: STDOUT:
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: Resource Usage At End Of Frame
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: 1480 Page faults
0: STDOUT: 99.719 Mb Max resident size
0: STDOUT: 95.223 Mb Peak total size(Estimated)
0: STDOUT: 7.271 Mb Peak arena size
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: 102.129 Mb Current
0: STDOUT: 0.375 Mb Transforms
0: STDOUT: 2.500 Mb MEL
0: STDOUT: 0.020 Mb Render Geometry Arena
0: STDOUT: 0.938 Mb Data Blocks
0: STDOUT: 0.125 Mb Keys
0: STDOUT: 3.333 Mb Render Cache
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: Postprocessing rendering result.
0: STDOUT: libpng warning: Attempted to set both read_data_fn and write_data_fn in
0: STDOUT: libpng warning: the same structure. Resetting read_data_fn to NULL.
0: STDOUT: Frame triangle count: 2520
0: STDOUT:
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: Resource Usage At End Of Frame
0: STDOUT: ====================================
0: STDOUT: 2694 Page faults
0: STDOUT: 108.855 Mb Max resident size
0: INFO: Process return code: 1
Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:
Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: Renderer returned non-zero error code, 1
Error Type
RenderPluginException
Error Stack Trace
at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.RenderTasks(Int32 startTask, Int32 endTask)
at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()
Hi Ed,
The only time I’ve been able to reproduce error code 1 with Maya is when the slave rendering the scene doesn’t have permissions to write the output to the specified location, but of course Maya outputs information that makes this clear.
That’s strange that it works with IFFs, but not TIFs or PNGs. Nothing in the output looks out of the ordinary when compared to the tests that we ran.
One thing you could try is rendering the scene from the command line outside of Deadline to see if you still run into the problem. The slave log outputs the executable and command line arguments, so you can reference that to do the test. At least that would determine if it’s a Deadline problem or simply a Maya problem.
Cheers,
- Ryan