How do I get to use a second machine on the network while in license free mode? Deadline Monitor doesn’t see it.
Thanks,
Robert
Hello,
Is there any indication in the slave log of the new machine as to what it is seeing when it tries to connect to the repository and database? That would be a decent start for us. Thanks.
This is what I get in the log:
Connecting to MAC-08…
Success
---- 2014/04/03 19:53 ----
Update timeout has been set to 1800 seconds
Stdout Handling Enabled: False
Popup Handling Enabled: False
Using Process Tree: True
Hiding DOS Window: True
Creating New Console: False
Executable: “/Applications/Thinkbox/Deadline6/Resources/deadlinecommand”
Argument: -DoPendingJobScan False
Startup Directory: “/Applications/Thinkbox/Deadline6/Resources”
Process Priority: BelowNormal
Process Affinity: default
Process is now running
Performing Pending Job Scan…
Pending Job Scan - Loading pending and active jobs
Pending Job Scan - Loaded 0 pending and active jobs in 8.076 ms
Pending Job Scan - Done.
Process exit code: 0
Update timeout has been set to 1800 seconds
Stdout Handling Enabled: False
Popup Handling Enabled: False
Using Process Tree: True
Hiding DOS Window: True
Creating New Console: False
Executable: “/Applications/Thinkbox/Deadline6/Resources/deadlinecommand”
Argument: -DoHouseCleaning 100 False
Startup Directory: “/Applications/Thinkbox/Deadline6/Resources”
Process Priority: BelowNormal
Process Affinity: default
Process is now running
Performing Stalled Slave Scan…
Stalled Slave Scan - Loading slave states
Stalled Slave Scan - Loaded 1 slave states in 73.030 ms
Stalled Slave Scan - Scanning slave states
Stalled Slave Scan - Cleaned up 0 stalled slaves in 61.591 ms
Stalled Slave Scan - Done.
Process exit code: 0
Trying to connect using license server ‘’…
Could not obtain license because:
Cannot find license file.
The license files (or license server system network addresses) attempted are
listed below. Use LM_LICENSE_FILE to use a different license file,
or contact your software provider for a license file.
Feature: deadline
Filename: /usr/local/flexlm/licenses/license.dat
License path: /usr/local/flexlm/licenses/license.dat:
FLEXnet Licensing error:-1,359. System Error: 2 “No such file or directory”
For further information, refer to the FLEXnet Licensing documentation,
available at “www.flexerasoftware.com”.
Failed to checkout a license using current configuration, checking for auto configuration…
Auto Configuration: No auto configuration could be detected, using local configuration
Attempting auto discovery of license servers, searching for servers on local network…
Broadcasting on 192.168.1.113
Connecting to slave log: MAC-08
Unable to detect vendor daemons on local network
The Slave is running in LICENSE-FREE MODE because a license could not be found, and there are two or less Slaves in the Deadline Repository.
To run more than two Slaves, you must purchase a license for each Slave you wish to run. For more information, please email sales@thinkboxsoftware.com.
Ok, doing some progress here. Turns out the remote computer had the repository set to the local one. So I changed it to the host machine’s and now it seems to work. But the problem now is that it can’t find the files, probably because they are stored on Dropbox and the paths are different from one machine to the other.
UPDATE: I checked the file path and it’s good. The drive is properly mounted on the remote computer. Here’s the render log:
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Error
Error in RenderTasks: Strict error checking on, caught the following error or warning.
Error: file: /var/folders/rn/3022dj3x62gdq7s64vrth6l40000gn/T/tmp144f9ae6.tmp line 38: Cannot load scene. Please check the scene name.
If this error message is unavoidable but not fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message, and disable the Maya job setting Strict Error Checking.
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks (System.String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, System.String& outMessage, FranticX.Processes.AbortLevel& abortLevel) [0x00000] in :0
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Type
RenderPluginException
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Stack Trace
at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask (System.String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame) [0x00000] in :0
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask (Deadline.IO.TaskLogWriter tlw) [0x00000] in :0
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Full Log
0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: Contrefacon_150_v006 - Backlight (533d9a88b145b1426049b99b)
0: INFO: Executing plugin script /Users/riouxr/Library/Application Support/Thinkbox/Deadline6/slave/MAC-08/plugins/533d9a88b145b1426049b99b/MayaBatch.py
0: INFO: About: Maya Batch Plugin for Deadline
0: INFO: The current environment will be used for rendering
0: INFO: Rendering with Maya version 2014.0
0: INFO: Not enforcing a build of Maya
0: INFO: Adding /Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/Maya.app/Contents/bin to PATH environment variable for this session
0: INFO: Adding /usr/aw/COM/bin to PATH environment variable for this session
0: INFO: Adding /usr/aw/COM/etc to PATH environment variable for this session
0: INFO: Setting MAYA_LOCATION environment variable to /Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/Maya.app/Contents for this session
0: INFO: Adding /Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/Maya.app/Contents/MacOS to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable for this session
0: INFO: Adding /Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/Maya.app/Contents/Frameworks to DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH environment variable for this session
0: INFO: Setting PYTHONHOME to /Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/Maya.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7 for this session
0: INFO: Starting monitored managed process MayaBatch
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: Executable: “/Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/Maya.app/Contents/bin/maya”
0: INFO: Argument: -prompt -file “/Volumes/Data/Dropbox/UPU/Boxes/scenes/shots/story_contrefacon/150/Contrefacon_150_v007.mb” -proj “/Volumes/Data/Projects/UPU”
0: INFO: Startup Directory: “/Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/Maya.app/Contents/bin”
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process Affinity: default
0: INFO: Process is now running
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1-68
0: INFO: Waiting until maya is ready to go
0: STDOUT: mental ray for Maya 2014
0: STDOUT: mental ray: version 3.11.1.13, Sep 12 2013, revision 204885
0: STDOUT: running deadline command: -getrepositoryroot
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Error: Cannot convert data of type int to type string[].
0: WARNING: Strict error checking on, ignoring the following unrecognized error or warning. If it is fatal, please email support@thinkboxsoftware.com with the error message.
0: STDOUT: Error: line 1: File not found: “/Volumes/Data/Dropbox/UPU/Boxes/scenes/shots/story_contrefacon/150/Contrefacon_150_v007.mb”
0: STDOUT: READY FOR INPUT
0: INFO: Rendering with mentalray
0: INFO: Rendering to network drive
0: INFO: Creating melscript to execute
0: INFO: Executing script: /var/folders/rn/3022dj3x62gdq7s64vrth6l40000gn/T/tmp144f9ae6.tmp
0: INFO: Waiting for script to finish
0: STDOUT: Error: file: /var/folders/rn/3022dj3x62gdq7s64vrth6l40000gn/T/tmp144f9ae6.tmp line 38: Cannot load scene. Please check the scene name.
This path is ok on the remote computer.
SECOND UPDATE:
I restarted both the slave and the monitor on the remote machine and now it started rendering… but… the maya batch process is using 0.1% of the CPU. I don’t get any error messages. Now I’m really stuck.
Hello,
Can I ask what kind of CPU usage you are seeing when you run it outside of Deadline, if you have? Seems a bit odd to only see 0.01% of a CPU usage for a Maya scene.
Outside Deadline it’s 800% cpu! All 8 cores running like crazy.
Hi there,
I have to admit I haven’t read this thread very carefully, but whenever Maya isn’t using enough CPU some render flag alarm bells always go off in mu head. From experience, the ‘auto detect’ settings for CPU affinity doesn’t always work that well.
Are you using Mental Ray? If so, you might be interested in the thread in this forum where I got help to set up some default render flag arguments.
Cheers,
Daniel
I saw today that I have this problem also when I render straight from Maya. I don’t understand why as I never experienced something like that since I’ve been using Maya… in 97! So the problem lies somewhere else. I need to either save the file under another name of change the frame range in order to get it to work. Strange.
Thanks for the help!
Cheers,
Robert
Hi,
As you have eliminated Deadline out of the equation now, have you upgraded to the latest Maya 2014 service pack (SP4) for OSX? Looking through the release notes for SP1,2,3 & 4, I couldn’t see any obvious note describing this exact issue. However, Autodesk support will obviously ask you to run the latest version if you contact them!
Let us know if this helps at all?
Mike