Tommy L Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Besides sounding quite funny, this error is killing Max and MR as soon as a render completes. Im using Distribuited Rendering over 8 nodes. It was working fine, now it isnt (grrr). Dies during 'cleaning up' phase Error says: mental ray has encountered a fatal error and the application will now shutdown. The error is: PAR 0.0 fatal 021512: SLAVE (#) DIED Any help anyone? I mean come on, slave dies cleaning up? Thanks, Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandmanNinja Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Wow - I never work my slaves that hard! Don't see how a dead machine would cause a mental ray error... good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted October 13, 2009 Author Share Posted October 13, 2009 Wow - I never work my slaves that hard! Don't see how a dead machine would cause a mental ray error... good luck Well Im pretty new to MR so I dont know either. Does anyone know how MR assigns a number to the nodes? Ther error I typed above always comes up with a number to identify the dead machine, but its a fairly arbitrary number. I typed in the ip addresses in the render panel to assign the nodes. I noticed that when I check the ip addresses from my workstation (in the backburner monitor) they have different number than the ones I assigned. Does that mean I have floating ip's on the network? Will that affect MR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hunt Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 The clean up stage is when mr dumps all the info its been holding in memory. I have had this before and in my case a simple reboot fixed it. Try assigning one machine at a time to see if it crashes on any particular machine. Also keep an eye on the message window to see what machine is doing what. What BSB methode are you using? BSB or BSB2. jhv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 Im using BSB (just because thats the default). The death is fairly random. It doesnt happen every time and Im not seeing any correlation between the scene and the fatality... Problem is it doesnt tell me which machine dies. Its a fatal error, so the mr log doesnt tell me anything. I really hope its not a compatibilty issue between W7 and XP64 on the network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hunt Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Try posting on the mental images forum http://forum.mentalimages.com/index.php , its a little slow in feed back sometimes but for something technical like this some of the geeks there might be able to help jhv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandmanNinja Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 You can clear your App Logs in Event Viewer, start the DR, and when it craps view the logs and maybe it'll point to the bad machine? That's one of the things I hope to test this weekend - doing DR between XP64 and Win 7 (64). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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