DR // Warning: Could not connect to host 192.168.1.12: Unknown error //

[tinuz]

Hi Guys,

I'm getting the error in the title and just don't know what to check anymore:

I have this setup:

A linux server where the vray license server is running.
5 Imac's with maya and vray installed
1 of those is my workstation from where I start jobs which have DR enabled,
I have added the other four (static) ip's in the maya DR settings list.

1 of the machines (192.168.1.12) always gives the above error, one of the others ( 192.168.1.18 ) sometimes.. the other two never give any errors. I can ping all the machines from my workstation.
On every machine vray.exe is running, i pointed to the license server correctly..

Sometimes i get black blocks in my render, but other times not..
on every machine i enabled, wake on lan if they are asleep, actually i even disabled sleep..

when I batch render I can see in the log that vray starts using 3 hosts for DR, but then during rendering irradiance or light cache, some of the hosts won't respond anymore and the render fails..(blocks..)

can you guys help me solve this?

[vlado]

Which V-Ray build is this?

Best regards,
Vlado

[tinuz]

from the log:
V-Ray for Maya version 1.50.SP1 from Jun 11 2010, 17:05:34
V-Ray core version is 1.90.03

I just made a render that used all four of the hosts, including the one that wouldn't render (192.168.1.12) but now no hosts will join the DR render:

[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: Preprocessing for distributed rendering!
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: Pre-render export.
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: Pre-render export
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray debug: nPreFrames=1, numSubframes=2
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: Pre-render export done.
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: Updating frame at time 1.00
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: (Estimated time remaining: 0h 0m 0.3s): 16 % completed
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: (Estimated time remaining: 0h 0m 0.1s): 48 % completed
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: (Estimated time remaining: 0h 0m 0.1s): 65 % completed
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: Total time updating frame 0h 0m 0.2s (0.2 s)
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: Writing to V-Ray scene file.
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: Total frame time 0h 0m 0.5s (0.5 s)
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: Total sequence time 0h 0m 0.6s (0.6 s)
[2010/Oct/15|14:21:02] V-Ray: Finished preprocessing for distributed rendering!

[2010/Oct/15|14:21:03] V-Ray: Using 0 hosts for distributed rendering.

[tinuz]

hmmm... it appeared our license server stopped working, when i checked the status page of the license server the DR licenses were maxed out at 10 but we only have 4 hosts.
when we tried to restart the license server it appeared that 2 deamons were running??

we then tried to kill see log:


roderik
3:32
chef:/home/raro# /etc/init.d/vrlsvcctl start
Starting V-Ray license service.../etc/init.d/vrlsvcctl: line 21: 21411 Killed "$DAEMON" -daemon
failed

Message from syslogd@chef at Oct 15 15:31:17 ...
kernel:[366300.746265] Oops: 0002 [#4] SMP

Message from syslogd@chef at Oct 15 15:31:17 ...
kernel:[366300.746339] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2/2-2.4/idVendor
chef:/home/raro#
Message from syslogd@chef at Oct 15 15:31:17 ...
kernel:[366300.748965] Stack:

Message from syslogd@chef at Oct 15 15:31:17 ...
kernel:[366300.749460] Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@chef at Oct 15 15:31:17 ...
kernel:[366300.750302] Code: 49 89 fc 55 53 48 83 ec 28 89 74 24 14 89 54 24 10 48 89 4c 24 08 49 8b 50 08 48 85 d2 75 0c e9 84 00 00 00 f3 90 f6 02 01 75 f9 <f0> 0f ba 2a 00 19 c0 85 c0 75 f0 83 7c 24 10 ff 74 0a 8b 44 24

Message from syslogd@chef at Oct 15 15:31:17 ...
kernel:[366300.751661] CR2: ffffe800018ad3a0