I saw this popup today and i have not encountered anything like it with deadline in the past.
I have one machine listed 6 times, and 5 of them have this odd range for the slave name.
when i first logged in i saw there were multiple instances of the slave running on each node.
I disabled the slaves with the odd range name
now when i log into these slaves everything seems normal.
I would love to understand what is happening.
thanks for your help
Hello Troy,
I was wondering if you can try to ping the machinenames RN031, RN033, RN034, RN035, and RN036 from RN032 using their hostnames? Usually when we see this kind of thing it means that the machine in the first half, RN032, was used to try to start or restart the slaves on the machines in the second half of the names, and couldn’t, which then fails over to giving the command on the sending machine. It’s a weird bug that we have since fixed. Let me know if that’s the case.
I can ping them by name.
i attempted to delete the “slaves” with the odd names, i could delete all but 1. Then i rebooted and they all came back.
any suggestions?
Hello Troy,
So in order to fully delete a slave instance, and make sure it doesn’t show up, you would need to not only delete in the monitor, but also from the slaves directory. On Mac that is in “/Applications/Deadline/Resources/slaves” and on Windows that is in “C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline6\slaves”. Just close all the slave instances, delete from the monitor, and all the files from the slaves folder, then reboot. When it comes up it’ll only have one instance. Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Dwight
That folder appears to be empty.
i still have the issue when i delete the slaves they reappear in monitor, but the machines dont physically exist any more.
Hello Troy,
I think we need to do a remote session to delve into this a bit deeper. Can you email support@thinkboxsoftware.com and let us know when this week is good for you?
