RE: [Condor-users] Condor and Maya

["Lantin, Maria" <Maria_Lantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow.  I actually got it to work.  Your note helped, and I studied the online
help.  For some reason the $HOME environment variable doesn't get set when
condor runs the job.  So I just explicitly defined $HOME and that worked.
Job file below.

## Location of Maya renderer
Executable = c:\condor_render\RenderThis

## Environment variables needed to make renderer work
environment = MAYA_LOCATION=/usr/aw/maya;HOME=/shared/home/drm

## File name of output from renderer (STDOUT) or omit if no output is
desired 
Output = cr.out

## File name of condor log file or omit if no log is desired 
log = cr.log

## File name of error output from renderer (STDERR) or omit if no error
output is desired 
Error = cr.err

## Windows NT jobs (currently) always run in vanilla universe
universe = vanilla
## Require windows NT 40 or 50 in order to run
requirements = (OpSys == "LINUX")

## Only mail us on error
notification = Never

transfer_input_files = bigluck.tif, wood.jpg, wood.jpg, newlogo_push3.mb

Arguments = -verb -rd . -im Frame -s 1.0000 -e 5.0000 -b 1.0000
newlogo_push3.mb
Queue

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Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Condor and Maya


Hi Maria,

I have it running fine windows->windows (via a java
wrapper that mounts network drives atl.), but so far no
luck on running maya on linux. I'm getting exactly the
same seg fault. Job also runs fine without condor.

I know under windows I had to do some tricks with
the USER_PROFILE and the TEMP_DIR before it would
behave, I'm assuming that there's something similar
that needs to be done on the linux side. This could
indicate why it was running from a script.

Not sure if this gives you any more ideas..

- Filip




> Hi all,
>
> Just subscribed to this list.  I've seen some sporadic postings about 
> using condor with maya for rendering.  There is a utility on the 
> condor site called condor_render but it hasn't worked well for me.
>
> My first simple setup was 3 linux machine with a total of 7 
> processors.  I just wanted to be able to submit linux jobs to a linux 
> cluster to begin with.  First problem was with the processing of the 
> maya files.  I had to change the source to properly parse out the file 
> names for the textures. Then I tried submitting the job but it gave me 
> an error, saying it couldn't find swrenderer.xml.  The job runs fine 
> when run manually from the command line.  Then I tried running it 
> without copying the executable or files. That worked better but it 
> stalled at starting maya from Render.  Then I tried running a script 
> instead of the executable. The only thing in the script was "Render 
> $*".  That worked well.  But I'm puzzled as to why.
>
> Happy that at least something was working, I then tried to submit a 
> job from windows to the same linux cluster.  Again the job runs fine 
> when run manually.  When I submit from my windows box, maya 
> segmentation faults and exits with status 139.  I looked at the core 
> file and it seems to crash on trying to modify the environment.  Not 
> sure why.  It seems that other people
> on this mailing list have had the same problem.  Also if I set "getenv" to
> true, the job just sits in the queue forever and generates Shadow
> exceptions.
>
> So I'd love to talk to anyone who has a workable condor render farm 
> solution.  So far this has been quite hard to set up and I can't spend 
> much more time on it.
>
> Thanks!
> M!
>
> ---------------------------------
> Here is my job file for windows:
>
> ## Location of Maya renderer
> Executable = c:\condor_render\RenderThis
>
> ## Environment variables needed to make renderer work environment =
> PATH=/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/aw/maya/bin;MAYA_LOCATION=/usr/aw/maya
>
> ## File name of output from renderer (STDOUT) or omit if no output is 
> desired Output = cr.out
>
> ## File name of condor log file or omit if no log is desired log = 
> cr.log
>
> ## File name of error output from renderer (STDERR) or omit if no 
> error output is desired Error = cr.err
>
> ## Windows NT jobs (currently) always run in vanilla universe universe 
> = vanilla ## Require windows NT 40 or 50 in order to run
> requirements = (OpSys == "LINUX")
>
> ## Only mail us on error
> notification = Never
>
> ## Use variables in current environoment when rendering #getenv = true
>
> transfer_input_files = bigluck.tif, wood.jpg, wood.jpg, 
> newlogo_push3.mb
>
> Arguments = -verb -rd . -im Frame -s 1.0000 -e 5.0000 -b 1.0000 
> newlogo_push3.mb Queue
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Job file for linux:
>
> ## Location of Maya renderer
> Executable = RenderThis
>
> ## Environment variables needed to make renderer work environment = 
> MAYA_LOCATION=/usr/aw/maya
>
> ## File name of output from renderer (STDOUT) or omit if no output is 
> desired Output = cr.out
>
> ## File name of condor log file or omit if no log is desired log = 
> cr.log
>
> ## File name of error output from renderer (STDERR) or omit if no 
> error output is desired Error = cr.err
>
> ## For now let's do vanilla
> universe = vanilla
>
> ## Only mail us on error
> notification = Never
>
> ## Use variables in current environoment when rendering getenv = true
>
> Arguments = -verb -rd . -im Frame -s 1.0000 -e 1.0000 -b 10.0000 
> logo_push3.mb Queue
>
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