We’re using the latest versions of Houdini 18.5.499, Redshift 0.39 and Deadline 10.1.13.1.
Rendering using Houdini’s GUI + RS is pretty normal and fast, but as soon as we try to submit a job via deadline, a job that takes 10s to render per frame, gets stuck forever on the first frame. Task manager shows that the CPU and GPU are working, but they seem to be stuck on a forever loop. Even after 10minutes the 1st frame isn’t even completed and shows up as 0%.
Tried rendering via cmd line and it works normally. So my guess is that it’s a problem with Deadline. I contacted the RS devs and they said it’s nothing on their side.
Here’s the log from deadline from that job.
(the error from redshift mismatch version is pretty normal, we tried with a standard version and the problem persists, even with other houdini versions).
2021-03-04 18:01:02: 0: INFO: Running as user: GLPedro
2021-03-04 18:01:02: 0: INFO: Executable: “C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.499\bin\Hython.exe”
2021-03-04 18:01:02: 0: INFO: Argument: “C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline10\workers\GLPedro\plugins\6041205743c9721734bb6b1a\hrender_dl.py” -f 65 65 1 -o “C:/Users/GLPedro/Desktop/test2/$OS.$F4.exr” -g -d /out/CAM_Particles -tempdir “C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline10\workers\GLPedro\jobsData\6041205743c9721734bb6b1a\0_temp297240” -arnoldAbortOnLicenseFail 1 “S:/2021/uvcreations_radhe_shyam_urs/30_shots/shGen001/03_scenes/urs_shGen001_fx_v003_ocean.hip”
2021-03-04 18:01:02: 0: INFO: Full Command: “C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.499\bin\Hython.exe” “C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline10\workers\GLPedro\plugins\6041205743c9721734bb6b1a\hrender_dl.py” -f 65 65 1 -o “C:/Users/GLPedro/Desktop/test2/$OS.$F4.exr” -g -d /out/CAM_Particles -tempdir “C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline10\workers\GLPedro\jobsData\6041205743c9721734bb6b1a\0_temp297240” -arnoldAbortOnLicenseFail 1 “S:/2021/uvcreations_radhe_shyam_urs/30_shots/shGen001/03_scenes/urs_shGen001_fx_v003_ocean.hip”
2021-03-04 18:01:02: 0: INFO: Startup Directory: “C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.499\bin”
2021-03-04 18:01:02: 0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
2021-03-04 18:01:02: 0: INFO: Process Affinity: default
2021-03-04 18:01:02: 0: INFO: Process is now running
2021-03-04 18:01:04: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Redshift for Houdini plugin version 3.0.38 (Feb 24 2021 20:21:42)
2021-03-04 18:01:04: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Plugin compile time HDK version: 18.5.497
2021-03-04 18:01:04: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Houdini host version: 18.5.499
2021-03-04 18:01:04: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Houdini and the Redshift plugin versions don’t match. Houdini or Redshift may become unestable, with features not available or crashes at render time
2021-03-04 18:01:04: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Plugin dso/dll and config path: C:/ProgramData/Redshift//Plugins/Houdini/18.5.497/dso
2021-03-04 18:01:04: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Core data path: C:\ProgramData\Redshift
2021-03-04 18:01:04: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Local data path: C:\ProgramData\Redshift
2021-03-04 18:01:04: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Procedurals path: C:\ProgramData\Redshift\Procedurals
2021-03-04 18:01:04: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] Preferences file path: C:\ProgramData\Redshift\preferences.xml
2021-03-04 18:01:04: 0: STDOUT: [Redshift] License path: C:\ProgramData\Redshift
2021-03-04 18:01:10: 0: STDOUT: Detected Houdini version: (18, 5, 499)
2021-03-04 18:01:10: 0: STDOUT: [‘C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline10\workers\GLPedro\plugins\6041205743c9721734bb6b1a\hrender_dl.py’, ‘-f’, ‘65’, ‘65’, ‘1’, ‘-o’, ‘C:/Users/GLPedro/Desktop/test2/$OS.$F4.exr’, ‘-g’, ‘-d’, ‘/out/CAM_Particles’, ‘-tempdir’, ‘C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline10\workers\GLPedro\jobsData\6041205743c9721734bb6b1a\0_temp297240’, ‘-arnoldAbortOnLicenseFail’, ‘1’, ‘S:/2021/uvcreations_radhe_shyam_urs/30_shots/shGen001/03_scenes/urs_shGen001_fx_v003_ocean.hip’]
2021-03-04 18:01:10: 0: STDOUT: Start: 65
2021-03-04 18:01:10: 0: STDOUT: End: 65
2021-03-04 18:01:10: 0: STDOUT: Increment: 1
2021-03-04 18:01:10: 0: STDOUT: Ignore Inputs: True
2021-03-04 18:01:10: 0: STDOUT: Output: C:/Users/GLPedro/Desktop/test2/$OS.$F4.exr
2021-03-04 18:01:10: 0: STDOUT: Driver: /out/CAM_Particles
2021-03-04 18:01:10: 0: STDOUT: Input File: S:/2021/uvcreations_radhe_shyam_urs/30_shots/shGen001/03_scenes/urs_shGen001_fx_v003_ocean.hip
2021-03-04 18:08:36: Scheduler Thread - Task “0_65-65” has been requeued, because DeletedJob. Cancelling task…
2021-03-04 18:08:36: 0: RenderThread CancelCurrentTask called, will transition from state None to None
2021-03-04 18:08:36: 0: In the process of canceling current task: ignoring exception thrown by PluginLoader
2021-03-04 18:08:36: 0: Executing plugin command of type ‘Cancel Task’
2021-03-04 18:08:36: 0: Done executing plugin command of type ‘Cancel Task’
2021-03-04 18:08:36: 0: Done executing plugin command of type ‘Render Task’
2021-03-04 18:08:36: 0: Executing plugin command of type ‘End Job’
2021-03-04 18:08:36: 0: Done executing plugin command of type ‘End Job’
2021-03-04 18:08:36: 0: Error in EndJob: Process was canceled externally.
2021-03-04 18:08:36: at Deadline.Plugins.PluginWrapper.RenderTasks(Task task, String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)
2021-03-04 18:08:39: Scheduler Thread - In the process of canceling current tasks: ignoring exception thrown by render thread 0
2021-03-04 18:08:41: Skipping pending job scan because it is not required at this time
2021-03-04 18:08:41: Skipping repository repair because it is not required at this time
2021-03-04 18:08:41: Skipping house cleaning because it is not required at this time
2021-03-04 18:08:41: WARNING: Limit ‘6041205743c9721734bb6b1a’ with holder named ‘glpedro’ could not be found.
2021-03-04 18:08:49: Skipping pending job scan because it is not required at this time
2021-03-04 18:08:49: Skipping repository repair because it is not required at this time
2021-03-04 18:08:49: Skipping house cleaning because it is not required at this time
2021-03-04 18:08:57: Skipping pending job scan because it is not required at this time
2021-03-04 18:08:57: Skipping repository repair because it is not required at this time
2021-03-04 18:08:57: Skipping house cleaning because it is not required at this time
2021-03-04 18:09:05: Skipping pending job scan because it is not required at this time
2021-03-04 18:09:05: Skipping repository repair because it is not required at this time
2021-03-04 18:09:05: Skipping house cleaning because it is not required at this time
and it loops the last 3 sentences every 10s or so.
Please advise. We have a huge project to deliver and all our render farm is deadline dependent.