Upgrading to 6.1 Slaves Fail to start

Deadline
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I just upgraded our linux x64 repository to 6.1 and have the clients (win7) set to auto update. I restarted the slaves and now they all say:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “DeadlineSlave\UI\Forms\MainWindowSlaveStartup.py”, line 90, in Startup
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Deadline.Slaves.AutoConfiguration.CheckAutoConfiguration(Boolean licenseOnly)

I tried turning off automatic updates and manually installing and I still recieve the same error…

HELP… whole farm is down right now…

Thanks,
Andrew

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Have you upgraded Pulse to 6.1 yet? If not, try upgrading it first and then see if this problem still occurs.

3

Pfew… that fixed it…

Thanks Ryan!!!

4

Awesome!

We’ll update the auto-upgrade docs to mention that pulse should be updated before the slaves are. In addition, we’ll try to figure out why this crash happens in the first place and ensure that this won’t happen in the future.

Cheers,
Ryan

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Hello all,

we had the same problem. The DL 6.1 clients work after ungrading the pulse machine but the remaining 6.0 clients now ignore the auto upgrade option (yes it ist still set).

Btw: During the upgrade via pstools I found that you changed the commandline options from “silent” to “unattended”. That was kind of a trap :wink:.

Best regards

Thorsten