Maya 2009 jobs stalling

Hello,

We recently upgraded to Maya 2009 64-bit, and we’re running into an issue rendering in Deadline where the Maya jobs are sent to the slave and show up as active with no errors, but nothing happens. On the slave, maya.exe launches, but doesn’t consume any CPU and doesn’t seem to do anything. I’ve included the output from the slave below. We’re using Deadline 3.1.0.36430.

Thanks for the help.

Eric

Scheduler Thread - Plugin loaded in 0.02 seconds.
Constructor: MayaCmd
0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: Untitled (002_050_005_3c725541)
0: INFO: StartJob: initializing script plugin MayaCmd
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “FLEXlm error: ."
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex "Usage: Render .

0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “Finished Rendering..([0-9]+).[^.]+"
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “.Finished Rendering.
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “Constructing shading groups|Rendering current frame”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “.Error: .|.Warning: .
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “[PROGRESS] ([0-9]+) percent”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “progr: +([0-9]+.[0-9]+)% +rendered”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “progr: +([0-9]+.[0-9]+)% +computing final gather points”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “progr: +rendering finished”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex "[PROGRESS] Completed frame

0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “.[PROGRESS] TURTLE rendering frame 100.00.
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “.Render complete.
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “[PROGRESS] Percentage of rendering done: (.)"
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex ".
[PROGRESS] TURTLE rendering frame ([0-9]+.[0-9]+).*”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “.*RIMG : +([0-9]+)%”
0: INFO: Ignoring popup windows with titles matching regex “.entry point.
0: INFO: Ignoring popup windows with titles matching regex “.Entry Point.
0: INFO: About: Maya Cmd Plugin for Deadline
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1
0: INFO: Stdout Handling Enabled: True
0: INFO: Popup Handling Enabled: True
0: INFO: Using Process Tree: True
0: INFO: Hiding DOS Window: True
0: INFO: Creating New Console: False
0: INFO: Not enforcing a build of Maya
0: INFO: Render Executable: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\bin\maya.exe”
0: INFO: Rendering to network drive
0: INFO: Rendering with Maya version 2009.0
0: INFO: Rendering all layers - using the renderer(s) set in the Maya render settings.
0: INFO: Render Argument: -r file -s 1 -e 1 -b 1 -rd “//arch-render/renderfarm/Output/EricK” -proj “//arch-render/renderfarm/Input/EricK/Maya” “C:\Documents and Settings\ek23\Local Settings\Application Data\Frantic Films\Deadline\slave\jobsData\gardentest.mb”
0: INFO: Startup Directory: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\bin”
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process is now running

Try using Render.exe instead of Maya.exe in the MayaCmd plugin.

Cheers,

  • Ryan

Looks like that did the trick. Thanks, Ryan!

Cheers,

Eric