Hi,
we are using Maya 2015 and vray 3.0
and Deadline 7.0 beta.
we have a render farm nodes working on linux environment,
while the workstations are in windows.
I have set up the Vray DBR based on this link thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline-6-vraydbr/
I have added one of the windows workstation as a deadline slave.
Now when I try to use Vray DBR submitter and reserve servers and then render based on the
available servers. I can see only the windows based machine is working and the
linux nodes are giving this error - ‘error: Failed to start network server: Failed to open listening port (98)’
I have configured the linux path of the plugin in Deadline for vray spawner as well
can someone point me where I am going wrong ?
Thanks
kguntuku
Hey kguntuku,
This should be posted in the beta forums since it relates to Deadline 7, but since this feature was present in 6.2, let’s just pretend I didn’t see the “7” in there and carry on here. 
My guess offhand is that it’s either an issue with SELinux or that the port it’s trying to open is below 1024. Both of those guesses are pretty darn unlikely. You can test by turning off SELinux temporarily (echo 0 | sudo tee /selinux/enforce), or running the Slave as root (edit the deadline7launcherservice init script), but I wouldn’t try those just yet.
If you could post a log file from one of those Linux machines (right click the header in the log window), I can show you how to start the spawner from the command line for you to test. You can find it yourself by looking for ‘render exectuable’ and ‘render argument’ lines.
Trying it from the command line should at least get Deadline out of the way.
Hi Edwin,
Thanks for your reply and sorry for my late post,
I was a bit tied up with work.
I will get a log from the linux machines,
but i think in Deadline help, it was mentioned NOT to start the spawner separately, do you recommend doing it
anyway ?
Hi Edwin,
Here’s the log from one of the Linux machines
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Error
Error: Renderer returned non-zero error code, 3. Check the log for more information.
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.a (Deadline.IO.TaskLogWriter A_0) [0x00000] in :0
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Full Log
2014-08-22 12:32:50: BEGIN - T1000\T1000
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: Start Job timeout is disabled.
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: Task timeout is disabled.
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: Loaded job: IVY_003_0160_LIGHT_KG_V06 - VRay Spawner Job (Maya 2015) (53f71a136a27e50e781520a4)
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Executing plugin script /home/T1000/Thinkbox/Deadline7/slave/T1000/plugins/53f71a136a27e50e781520a4/VraySpawner.py
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: About: VRay Spawner Plugin for Deadline
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: The current environment will be used for rendering
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 5
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Stdout Handling Enabled: False
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Popup Handling Enabled: False
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Using Process Tree: True
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Hiding DOS Window: True
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Creating New Console: False
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Running as user: T1000
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Executable: “/usr/autodesk/maya2015-x64/vray/bin/vrayslave”
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Argument:
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Startup Directory: “/usr/autodesk/maya2015-x64/vray/bin”
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Process Affinity: default
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: INFO: Process is now running
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Reading configuration from “/usr/autodesk/maya2015-x64/vray/bin//vrayconfig.xml”
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] ===============================================
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] V-Ray Standalone, version 3.05.07 for x64
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Copyright © 2000-2012 Chaos Group Ltd. All rights reserved.
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Use -credits option for additional third-party copyright notices.
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49]
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Build from Jun 10 2014, 19:21:44
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Compiled with GCC-compatible compiler, version 4.4
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Operating system is Linux
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49]
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] V-Ray core version is 3.05.07
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] ===============================================
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49]
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Loading plugins from “/usr/autodesk/maya2015-x64/vray/vrayplugins/libvray_.so"
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] 138 plugin(s) loaded successfully
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Loading plugins from "/usr/autodesk/maya2015-x64/vray/vrayplugins/libstd_.so”
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Finished loading plugins.
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] error: Failed to start network server: Failed to open listening port (98)
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Exiting server mode.
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Closing log - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s).
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Issues Report:
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Errors:
2014-08-22 12:32:50: 0: STDOUT: [2014/Aug/22|12:32:49] Failed to start network server: Failed to open listening port (98)
2014-08-22 12:32:51: 0: INFO: Process exit code: 3
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Details
Date: 08/22/2014 12:20:42
Frames: 5
Elapsed Time: 00:00:00:03
Job Submit Date: 08/22/2014 12:19:23
Job User: kishore
Average RAM Usage: 774454272 (4%)
Peak RAM Usage: 787656704 (4%)
Average CPU Usage: 2%
Peak CPU Usage: 8%
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Slave Information
Slave Name: T1000
Version: v7.0.0.26 R (c53f90c95)
Operating System: CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
Machine User: T1000
IP Address: 10.0.10.71
MAC Address: 00:30:48:B8:8E:05
CPU Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 12
CPU Usage: 0%
Memory Usage: 736.9 MB / 23.5 GB (3%)
Free Disk Space: 89.826 GB
Video Card: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200eW WPCM450 (rev 09)
Hi kguntuku,
Please can you post issues involving Deadline v7.0 to the Deadline v7 beta forum only.
Thanks,
Mike
Hi Mike,
sorry about that,
Is there a way to move this thread to deadline 7 beta forum, or shall i start a new thread there ?
Any update on this guys ?
Hi,
I believe Edwin asked if you could try running the vray slave manually in the shell on this machine so we can confirm if it runs ok without Deadline. This was suggested purely for debugging purposes and not for actual production use. Please do check out Edwin’s previous reply for more info on his suggestion.
Thanks,
Mike