Houdini Redshift client error

Deadline
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Hello!

I had Deadline working with my main machine (GINZ001) repository/client and additional machine (GINZ-RIG) as client rendering Houdini and Redshift in the past without issues.
I did a clean install of deadline and now when submitting a Houdini Redshift job to deadline only my main machine is rendering, the GINZ-RIG client is not rendering just keeps skipping frames putting them in queued status.
Attached is the error report file.

I would appreciate any help, thanks!

Daniel

Job_2022-11-06_10-54-01_6367d89a34a86c439893010a.zip (5.4 KB)

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Error

Error: Renderer returned non-zero error code, 139. Check the log for more information.
at Deadline.Plugins.PluginWrapper.RenderTasks(Task task, String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)

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Type

RenderPluginException

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Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.SandboxedPlugin.d(DeadlineMessage bgj, CancellationToken bgk)
at Deadline.Plugins.SandboxedPlugin.RenderTask(Task task, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.c(TaskLogWriter ajq, CancellationToken ajr)

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It looks like Houdini is failing on segmentation fault error and causing the rendering issue. The traceback is pointing something within Houdini itself.:

2022-11-06 10:53:58:  0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 2
2022-11-06 10:53:58:  0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Scene 'redshift_deadline_test_01', ROP node 'Redshift_ROP1' render started for 1 frames. Time from 0.041667 to 0.041667
2022-11-06 10:53:58:  0: STDOUT: 6940: Fatal error: Segmentation fault
2022-11-06 10:53:58:  0: STDOUT: -- TRACEBACK BEGIN --

Have you tried rendering without Deadline and see if the rendering fails outside Deadline as well. Here is a troubleshooting guide you can reference.

I did found a forum post on the Fatal Error: Segmentation Fault from Sidefx, where installing the newer version of Houdini fixed the issue. (Fatal error: Segmentation fault | Forums | SideFX)

I hope this may fix the issue.

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Thanks for the reply karpreet!

I found the issue! Thank you for pointing me to the right direction karpreet. It was indeed my client machine that had the segmentation fault error. I was able to resolve it by deleting the Houdini pref folder and updating the env file to the latest redshift version. It works now.

Thanks for the help!!