From: Luigi Tommaseo <luigi@tommaseo.me.uk>
Subject: Re: fonts rendering in shake
   Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:34:45 -0400
Msg# 1393
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Hi Dylan,
have you tried if this works by logging in in text mode only? don't tell me I have to get the machines to login to the finder to get the fonts to work!! I found that render times are shorter when the macs are not filling up any memory for the gui and I would like to keep it that way. If you haven't tried don't worry as I will test it tomorrow and let everybody know.
thanks for all the comments.

L

P.S. I will try and contact shake support about this :)


On 3 Oct 2006, at 02:09, Greg Ercolano wrote:

[posted to rush.general]

Dylan Penhale wrote:
[posted to rush.general]
Hi Luigi
I don't know if this helps, but we have to have our render nodes logged in to use any local custom system fonts as well. If we don't we get a font error in shake and the frame fails to complete. We didn't find any way
around this.

Interesting.. I wonder what shake needs the machine to be logged in for
	just to access fonts.

	I don't suppose anyone's talked to shake support about this.. I think
	we could all benefit from what they say.

I would think you can replicate this problem easily from the command line by just ssh'ing into the machine, and invoking the shake command manually, and if so, definitely report it to shake support to see what they say. (I think some guy was taking over shake support.. can't recall the details)

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