Machine Finishing Task but not Releasing

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Hi all, running into an interesting issue with deadline all of a sudden: One machine on our farm won’t release its task and move on to the next, even after successfully rendering and saving out its frame. The worker simply gets to

2023-03-24 15:07:47: 0: STDOUT: Octane: Rendered 193 samples out of 200
2023-03-24 15:07:50: 0: STDOUT: Octane: Rendered 200 samples out of 200
2023-03-24 15:07:55: 0: STDOUT: Octane: frame 0: render is finished
2023-03-24 15:07:58: 0: STDOUT: Octane: frame 0: 200 sample(s) rendered in 1 min. 25:072 sec.
2023-03-24 15:07:58: 0: STDOUT: Scene (path to scene) completed.

and then… nothing. The task status doesn’t change, no messages in the log after that. I’ve been using a timeout to eventually mark as complete but it’s not ideal as the time to render varies greatly over the course of most jobs. Every other machine in the farm renders frames for the same jobs just fine. Any idea what might be causing this?

Thanks!

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That looks like Octane isn’t exiting, and the task only completes when that executable stops. If it’s just this one machine I’d be temped to re-image it for simplicity’s sake.

Otherwise I’d go through the troubleshooting guide to get the command we’re running to see if the same behaviour persists outside of Deadline.

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Ah, based on the language I had assumed it was a deadline issue but after troubleshooting with the guide you linked, we realized it was being caused by maya itself. Reinstalled and now it’s back up and running. Thanks Justin!

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