Hi there,
we want to integrate our MacPros for rendering Maya under OSX. While using BootCamp with Windows Vista x64 or Windows 7 RC x64 everthing works great.
Using OSX gives strange errors, because Deadline cannot write to a local folder, it created itself.
Maya is rendering the files locally and then everything is getting copied to the Server.
I think there was a way to render the files directly to the server, but that was not an option due to other errors.
So, what Deadline logs say, is
2009-06-26 20:36:33: 0: STDOUT: DISP 0.2 error 211010: failed to create 128-byte stub image /Applications/Deadline/Resources/slave/jobsData/mayaOutput_temp0/BumperTwo_2_5_rj/beauty/beauty.0013.rgb: No such file or directory
but when I check the temp-folder, it’s empty here:
/Applications/Deadline/Resources/slave/jobsData/mayaOutput_temp0/
So, maybe it’s trying to write to a folder, it did’t create at all. It’s missing the:
/BumperTwo_2_5_rj/beauty/
That could be the problem, no? Or is it creating the folder at the same time while writing the file?
A while later the logs state, that it again cannot write the file. And so moving the rendered file to the server fails, too, because the file is (of course) missing:
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: PHEN 0.2 progr: writing image file /Applications/Deadline/Resources/slave/jobsData/mayaOutput_temp0/BumperTwo_2_5_rj/beauty/beauty.0013.rgb (frame 13)
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: IMG 0.2 error 101003: ...ata/mayaOutput_temp0/BumperTwo_2_5_rj\beauty\beauty.0013.rgb: can't create file (No such file or directory)
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: INFO: Deadline is ignoring error: "Error: (mental ray) : ...ata/mayaOutput_temp0/BumperTwo_2_5_rj\beauty\beauty.0013.rgb: can't create file (No such file or directory)" because plugin setting StrictErrorChecking is enabled and this error is not usually fatal.
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: Error: (mental ray) : ...ata/mayaOutput_temp0/BumperTwo_2_5_rj\beauty\beauty.0013.rgb: can't create file (No such file or directory)
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: PHEN 0.2 error 051006: cannot create file /Applications/Deadline/Resources/slave/jobsData/mayaOutput_temp0/BumperTwo_2_5_rj/beauty/beauty.0013.rgb
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: RC 0.2 progr: rendering finished
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: RC 0.2 info : wallclock 0:06:14.89 for rendering
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: RC 0.2 info : CPU user 0:43:38.57 for rendering
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: RC 0.2 info : allocated 80 MB, max resident 99 MB, RSS 0 MB
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: GAPM 0.2 info : triangle count (including retessellation) : 12830
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: DB 0.2 info : disk swapping: 0 objects (0 KB) swapped out in 0.00 s,
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: DB 0.2 info : 0 objects (0 KB) swapped in in 0.00 s, max swap space used 0 KB, 0 KB failed
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: PHEN 0.2 info : Reflection rays skipped by threshold: 4284673
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: PHEN 0.2 info : Refraction rays skipped by threshold: 1023127
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: INFO: Deadline is ignoring error: "Error: Scene /Applications/Deadline/Resources/slave/jobsData/BumperTwo_2_5_rj.mb failed to render." because plugin setting StrictErrorChecking is enabled and this error is not usually fatal.
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: Error: Scene /Applications/Deadline/Resources/slave/jobsData/BumperTwo_2_5_rj.mb failed to render.
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT:
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: STDOUT: // Maya exited with status 210
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: INFO: Process exit code: 211
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: INFO: Renderer reported an error with error code 211. This will be ignored, since the option to ignore it is specified in the Job Properties.
2009-06-26 20:42:48: 0: INFO: Moving output files and folders from /Applications/Deadline/Resources/slave/jobsData/mayaOutput_temp0 to /Volumes/WORK/Render/3D/Bumper_02
2009-06-26 20:42:50: Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:
2009-06-26 20:42:50: Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: An error occurred in RenderTasks(): Error in PostRenderTasks(): Verification failed because source directory /Applications/Deadline/Resources/slave/jobsData/mayaOutput_temp0 is empty! (FranticX.Processes.ManagedProcessAbort) (Deadline.Plugins.RenderPluginException)
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks (Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, System.String& outMessage) [0x00000]
We used the “Mapped Path Setup” and that looks fine so far. I think the problem is somewhere else.
Everything is installed as admin user. We set up 3 machines, all having the same issues on OSX.
SETUP
Deadline 3.1 SP1 (build 36430)
Server:
Windows 2003 Server
sharing a Folder called WORK, Guests have full access
sharing Repository, Macs use: /Volumes/DeadlineRepository/
Client:
OS X 10.5.7
Mono 2.4_7
X11 (XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33))
Thanks for any help!!