Recently one of my machines on the farm went down for a while and it didn’t want to load windows properly
I couldn’t figure out exactly what it was, but my gut feeling is that is shutdown during a windows (7sp1-64bits) update.
Via the restore options in safemode I could get it working again when I restored the system to the restore point prior to the last update.
Now when deadline launches I get an “license invalid/expired” status in the monitor and it refuses to activate itself.
I figured that reinstalling the latest deadline 8 (I was running a slightly older beta version) would do the trick.
unfortunately I still get the same message while I still have license slots free.
It only happens on this machine and I have no clue why.
The machine can reach the license server ip without a problem.
I also tried a uninstall-install to avoid old files being left.
how to solve this?
Connecting to 3DNode5...
2013-01-11 07:15:40: Could not obtain license because it has expired.
2013-01-11 07:15:40: Scheduler Thread - >>> LICENSE CHECK OUT FAILED, SKIPPING TASK DEQUEUING
2013-01-11 07:15:56: Connecting to Slave log: 3DNode5
2013-01-11 07:15:56: Could not obtain license because:
2013-01-11 07:15:56: License server machine is down or not responding.
2013-01-11 07:15:56: See the system administrator about starting the license server system, or
2013-01-11 07:15:56: make sure you're referring to the right host (see LM_LICENSE_FILE).
2013-01-11 07:15:56: Feature: deadline
2013-01-11 07:15:56: Hostname: 3dserver
2013-01-11 07:15:56: License path: @192.168.0.3;@3dserver;C:\Software\Thinkbox\thinkbox.lic;
2013-01-11 07:15:56: FlexNet Licensing error:-96,7. System Error: 11001 "Comm. error"
2013-01-11 07:15:56: For further information, refer to the FlexNet Licensing documentation,
2013-01-11 07:15:56: available at "www.flexerasoftware.com".
2013-01-11 07:15:56: Failed to checkout a license using current configuration, checking for auto configuration...
2013-01-11 07:15:56: Auto Configuration: Picking configuration based on: 3DNode5 / 192.168.0.15
2013-01-11 07:15:56: Auto Configuration: No auto configuration could be detected, using local configuration
2013-01-11 07:15:56: The Slave cannot run in LICENSE-FREE MODE because there are more than two Slaves in the Deadline Repository. For more information, please email sales@thinkboxsoftware.com.
Success
2013-01-11 07:16:07: Could not obtain license because it has expired.
2013-01-11 07:16:07: Scheduler Thread - >>> LICENSE CHECK OUT FAILED, SKIPPING TASK DEQUEUING
2013-01-11 07:16:24: Could not obtain license because:
2013-01-11 07:16:24: License server machine is down or not responding.
2013-01-11 07:16:24: See the system administrator about starting the license server system, or
2013-01-11 07:16:24: make sure you're referring to the right host (see LM_LICENSE_FILE).
2013-01-11 07:16:24: Feature: deadline
2013-01-11 07:16:24: Hostname: 3dserver
2013-01-11 07:16:24: License path: @192.168.0.3;@3dserver;C:\Software\Thinkbox\thinkbox.lic;
2013-01-11 07:16:24: FlexNet Licensing error:-96,7. System Error: 11001 "Comm. error"
2013-01-11 07:16:24: For further information, refer to the FlexNet Licensing documentation,
2013-01-11 07:16:24: available at "www.flexerasoftware.com".
2013-01-11 07:16:24: Failed to checkout a license using current configuration, checking for auto configuration...
2013-01-11 07:16:24: Auto Configuration: Picking configuration based on: 3DNode5 / 192.168.0.15
2013-01-11 07:16:24: Auto Configuration: No auto configuration could be detected, using local configuration
2013-01-11 07:16:24: The Slave cannot run in LICENSE-FREE MODE because there are more than two Slaves in the Deadline Repository. For more information, please email sales@thinkboxsoftware.com.
2013-01-11 07:16:35: Could not obtain license because it has expired.
2013-01-11 07:16:35: Scheduler Thread - >>> LICENSE CHECK OUT FAILED, SKIPPING TASK DEQUEUING