On Mar 14, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Greg Ercolano wrote:
> [posted to rush.general]
>
> Victor DiMichina wrote:
>> Anyone have the issue with batching aerender where ae returns an exitcode of 0 "success" yet only renders a portion of the batch? I've attached two log files, one is
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>> "aerender_full_success.rtf" showing a log from a successful 10-frame batch, highligting the batch frames, and the output. So the node was asked to render frames 211-220, and it rendered them all, exiting with a success code.
>>
>> "aerender_partial_false_success.rtf" shows a log from an attempted 10-frame batch (same job), and shows the output being only one frame. Sometimes it's one, sometimes it will do three, five, it's all random.
>>
>>
>> AE has many weirdnesses that I have to deal with, but usually I can parse for errors and auto-requeue the frame. This one shows no difference that I can see in the log, it just doesn't render the frames.
>>
>> Anyone seen this? I want to report this to Adobe. I also want to find a pattern here to check for this and re-queue frames.
>
> Is it the case where when you requeue the batch, it works fine the next time,
> even on the same machine?
>
> You should report it, as AE is probably not reporting errors correctly here.
>
> To see what's actually happening, check your client and file server's
> system logs (eg. /var/log/system.log, /var/log/secure.log, /var/log/samba*)
> to see if the network file system is generating spurious permission errors
> or some such.
>
> I've seen a few cases where e.g. the /var/log/system.log of mac file servers
> reported random kerberos that resulted in 'permission denied' situations
> only with AE + NFS, and AE + samba. It seemed like a two part problem;
> 1) AE was exacerbating an OS problem to occur (fault of the OS), and
> 2) AE wasn't reporting the OS error in the logs (fault of AE).
>
> You should report it to Adobe I think.
I will report it to Adobe. Not sure how confident I am that they'll care, but it's worth a try.
We're OS X server with AFP share. it's been doing this before 10.6, but I recently started batch framing, so I don't know if previous versions of OS X server/client/AE had this problem.
> I've seen other customers run into this, and it's mostly been recently
> (last few months). Not sure if it's something to do with a recent upgrade
> of OSX, or AE, or some magic combo.
It's been pre-10.6 for me, At least since 10.3
Cheers,
Vic
>
> BTW, is your file server MacOS? I've seen a pattern of this where the
> server was a recent release of OSX (Snow Leopard/10.6).
>
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