Hi,
We are experiencing a problem getting maxwell standalone renders
working successfully on osx. The problem appears to be due to the
maxwell standalone renderer needing to open a graphical console
window to output logging information rather than writing to stdout.
Rush is configured to run apps on the osx machines under a dedicated
render user account, and if this user is not logged in to the osx
window server, the maxwell standalone "command line" client (mxcl)
fails with the following error, because the dedicated render user
does not have permission to access the window server:
_RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to
the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
Annoyingly, there appears to be no means of forcing mxcl to run in a
silent mode - it will always attempt to open a graphical console
window. On our dedicated osx render nodes, this is not really an
issue, as we are able to leave these machines logged in under the
dedicated render user, and all is well.
We would like to be able to render on some of our high-end osx
workstations in the evenings however, and as these are usually left
logged in under artist user accounts, the jobs end up failing due to
the above error.
I was wondering if anyone might have any suggestions on how we could
work around this issue?
Thanks in advance,
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Luke Cole
Research & Development
FUEL International
65 King St., Newtown, Sydney NSW, Australia 2042
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