Maya complete task but no output

Deadline
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Recently, we’ve been experiencing an annoying issue with a few of our maya jobs, where the task says its complete but no image is written to disk. So, if we do a scan for missing output, it finds loads of missing frames and then needs requeing.

Were running 6.2.0.24 everywhere and the version of maya in question is 2014 with a vray beta 30503. We have experinced this problem before with previous verions of maya though, 2012 and 2013. The rendernodes in question are all win7 and have been made from a single image, so there is no difference between software or hardware.

Looking through the slave reports, there doesnt seem to be anything amiss. It would be better if it threw up an error rather than saying it’s completed when there is no output.

Thanks in advance,

Elliott
good_task.txt (13.4 KB)
bad_task.txt (11.3 KB)

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Sadly there is nothing in the logs that shows any issues at all with either log file. I am not sure why the bad one went bad, nor does Maya report anything is wrong. Everything in that log shows as completed, but I definitely understand that an output check would be handy for some, though when we had it in it was very bad for some customers. I will pass along the suggestion to have this back in, even if it’s only an option for a submission. I was noticing the beta status of your vray, and that you are running an older version of Deadline, and thought it might be worth it to upgrade those at some point, though I don’t think they have have an impact here. The release version of Deadline 6.2 is 6.2.0.32, and can be downloaded by contacting Sales.