What is the clean way of removing Deadline and reinstall on Mac OS X Lion?
I am having an issue with one of the slave machine login in as the name of another machine therefore I cannot see it on the monitor. Where is configuration stored?
I tried to move the Deadline folder off the application folder and reinstall. I also tried to move the repository off the application folder and recreate it. The slave machine still login as the name of another slave machine. I tried installing Deadline on a third machine also running lion that has never had Deadline installed before and it appears correctly. However, once thing I notice that the Mac address that it detects all says FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF which is very strange.
Help!
To completely remove Deadline from OSX, you just need to delete these folders:
/Applications/Deadline
~/Deadline (where ~ represents your home folder)
There is also a Deadline.saver file that should be in /Library/Screen Savers. Just move this stuff to the trash, and then empty the trash to completely wipe it from your system
However, I’m not sure this will help your problem. Deadline doesn’t “login” as a particular machine. When the slave starts up, it grabs the host name of the machine and uses that for the slave name. Is it possible that these machines have the same host name? If not, what are the actual host names of the two machines in question?
For the third machine (the one where the MAC address isn’t being set properly), what do you get when you open a terminal and run the following:
ifconfig
Maybe post the results here and we can try to figure out why the MAC address isn’t being parsed out properly.
Cheers,
I follow the procedure to delete all the deadline folder and files with same result.
But you gave me a hint to know where to look.
Usually I setup all apps on one mac mini and then I use disk utility to clone to other mac mini. After that I simply change the computer name.
After I did some research, it turns out I have to use scutil in the terminal in order to change the hostname. I always thought that the computer name is the hostname. Now the slave on the 2nd computer shows up correctly after I ran that command.
Everything else seems to show up correctly. However the MAC address of the 2nd machine is still showing up as FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. Samething with my third computer.
These are Mac OS X Server 10.7.1. I also have VMware Fusion 4 installed but I don’t have Deadline running in a virtual machine.
If I type ifconfig at the prompt, I get the correct MAC addresses for each NIC including the virtual one from Fusion. None of the NIC have FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF as MAC address.
Maybe there something else I need to change when cloning?
Glad to hear the host name issue has been sorted.
I should have mentioned earlier, but when you see the MAC address show up as FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF, that means that Deadline couldn’t determine this information. If you can post the results of ifconfig from the first machine and the second machine, we can try to figure out why we can pull the information properly on one but not the other.
Thanks!