repository install problems

anon60835470 · February 8, 2010, 10:56pm

Hi all -

I’m new to Deadline. I’m trying to test out a simple set up, running the repository on a linux box - Ubuntu Karmic Server x64 - with two WinXP slaves.

I’ve downloaded Deadline 4.0.

When I attempt to run the DeadlineRepository installer script I get this output:

$ ./DeadlineRepository

This will install Deadline Repository on your computer. Continue? [n/Y]

Where do you want to install Deadline Repository?
[/usr/local/Prime_Focus/DeadlineRepository]

Installing Deadline Repository…
Error in action ExecuteAction: Error in action ExecuteScript: can’t read “info(MonoCheck)”: no such element in array
while executing
“$obj execute”
(procedure “::InstallJammer::ExecuteActions” line 62)
invoked from within
“::InstallJammer::ExecuteActions Console”
(procedure “::InstallJammer::InstallMain” line 11)
invoked from within
“::InstallJammer::InstallMain”
(procedure “ThemeMain” line 2)
invoked from within
"ThemeMain "
invoked from within
“if {![info exists ::InstallJammer]} { ThemeMain }”
(file “/installkitvfs/main.tcl” line 28681)

This looked like a Mono problem, though installing the mono-complete package didn’t fix it.

Can anyone help me out? I bet this is a really basic problem.

Thanks!

brian

rrussell · February 9, 2010, 2:55pm

Hi Brian,

It looks like the problem is occurring because the installer is being run in Console mode instead of GUI mode. We need to fix this, but in the meantime, you could do the following workaround:

Create a repository share folder on your linux box, and open up its permissions so that everyone has read/write access.
Run the repository installer on one of your XP slaves, and choose the repository share on your linux box as the installation location.

Cheers,

Ryan

anon60835470 · February 9, 2010, 4:16pm

Great, thank you! Up and running smoothly now. Thanks for the quick reply.

brian

anon25701628 · February 10, 2010, 1:28am

We are experiencing this issue too, but we only have Linux boxes, so no XP install solution is possible. Any ideas?

Also, we are experiencing random crashes of the Monitor window when the refresh button is sometimes pressed. The launcher itself does not crash though, but heavy use of the monitor and hitting refresh frequently will cause it to disappear without warning once every 5 minutes or so.

We are using Fedora 10

Thanks!

rrussell · February 10, 2010, 2:33pm

I guess you can’t use the GUI mode on your linux server? You can override the install mode by doing the following:

./DeadlineRepository --mode standard

If that isn’t possible on the server itself, then you can essentially do what I suggested earlier, except from one of your linux clients (which I’m assuming you have at least 1 running with desktop environment). Just create the share on the server, run the linux repository installer on one of your clients in GUI mode, and select the repository share as the installation directory.

Cheers,

Ryan