Renderman for Houdini 24.1, Houdini 18.5.596

Deadline
1

Hi,

We’re not able to get Houdini 18.5.596 to work with Deadline 10.1.18.4. Jobs submitted from the Deadline submitter, via the Houdini menu, as export jobs fail with the following errors.

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Error

FailRenderException : Error: No module named viewerstate.utils
at Deadline.Plugins.DeadlinePlugin.FailRender(String message) (Python.Runtime.PythonException)
File “/var/lib/Thinkbox/Deadline10/workers/rndr-099/plugins/614500908d2a126d22509177/Houdini.py”, line 427, in HandleStdoutError
self.FailRender(self.GetRegexMatch(1))
at Python.Runtime.Dispatcher.Dispatch(ArrayList args)
at __FranticX_Processes_ManagedProcess_StdoutHandlerDelegateDispatcher.Invoke()
at FranticX.Processes.ManagedProcess.RegexHandlerCallback.CallFunction()
at FranticX.Processes.ManagedProcess.e(String cj, Boolean ck)
at FranticX.Processes.ManagedProcess.Execute(Boolean waitForExit)
at Deadline.Plugins.DeadlinePlugin.DoRenderTasks()
at Deadline.Plugins.PluginWrapper.RenderTasks(Task task, String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)
at Deadline.Plugins.PluginWrapper.RenderTasks(Task task, String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)

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2021-09-21 13:21:29: 0: INFO: Startup Directory: “/opt/hfs18.5/bin”
2021-09-21 13:21:29: 0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
2021-09-21 13:21:29: 0: INFO: Process Affinity: default
2021-09-21 13:21:29: 0: INFO: Process is now running
2021-09-21 13:21:31: 0: STDOUT: Can’t open dophints.cmd
2021-09-21 13:21:33: 0: STDOUT: Error running event handler:
2021-09-21 13:21:33: 0: STDOUT: Traceback (most recent call last):
2021-09-21 13:21:33: 0: STDOUT: File “kinefx::Sop/adapttoterrain, opdef:/kinefx::Sop/adapttoterrain?ViewerStateInstall”, line 1, in
2021-09-21 13:21:33: 0: Sending kill command to process hython-bin with id: 252173
2021-09-21 13:21:33: 0: Done executing plugin command of type ‘Render Task’

2

Is this thread any help? I’ve not had time to test myself but looks like others have got it working

3

Yes it was. Unfortunately I’m posting this after going through that thread. While helpful initially, it ends exactly where we are right now. And the code change suggested at the bottom, didn’t fix the problem for us.