Compressor 4 “Render Farm” :: What is Required?

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

Did you try adding one computer at a time?

[Doug Daulton]

Opened a discussion in Apple’s Compressor forums (link below) and opened a ticket with the Compressor team.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3991369

[Doug Daulton]

Ian – It did not register that was your reply. 😀

Trying your solution now.

DD

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

Also – look in console when you get the error (the same one should appear in the console app). Let me know if you see any other errors around it (maybe ones that are more recognizable).

[Doug Daulton]

Ian – Have tried adding one node at a time. The results vary. Here are the steps I’ve taken thus far:

I have power cycled all of my machines, the cluster controller and the render nodes. Now, I get a slightly different error message, but the same result. Here is the message:

“Error occurred while creating new cluster: SwampDaemon::NFSPublisher: authorization has expired”

Also, occasionally, when attempting to build the cluster, I get this message:

“The controller cannot be reached. Please try later.”

This is odd because the controller IS the same machine. So, there should be no network issue.

Also, per the screen capture linked below, when selected, the cluster shows:

Storage: “Info Not Available”

https://screencast.com/t/vG4iLBplaB

I am not sure if that applies, but it seems odd.

Here is a video capture of the process at work.

https://screencast.com/t/6H2qj3dHvbqk

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

Try the other thing I posted about console
Also – are the clocks in sync?

[Doug Daulton]

Ian,

I’ve include relevant bits of my console dump below. The following screencast explains what I THINK they are, given that they are out of context.

https://screencast.com/t/ak4cvrS8SK

Thanks,

Doug

5/30/12 12:34:04.012 AM [0x0-0x291291].com.apple.Compressor 2012-05-30 00:34:04.006 compressord[26945:6a03] In ‘__CFPasteboardCopyData’, file /SourceCache/CF/CF-635.21/AppServices.subproj/CFPasteboard.c, line 2372, during unlock, spin lock 0x6821a38 has value 0x0, which is not locked. The memory has been smashed or the lock is being unlocked when not locked.

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5/30/12 2:02:18.553 PM Apple Qadministrator exception (NSException raised by ‘NSPortTimeoutException’, reason = ‘Distributed objects message send timed out (timeout: 360104568.550303 at time: 360104538.550667) 1’) occured in connectAndCaptureService

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5/30/12 2:51:19.442 PM Apple Qadministrator ERROR: connect failed while updating service attribute info..

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5/30/12 3:32:33.484 PM qmasterd CDNSharedStorageServer::publishNotification: CException: SwampDaemon::NFSPublisher: authorization has expired
5/30/12 3:32:33.485 PM [0x0-0x14014].com.apple.Compressor 2012-05-30 15:32:33.483 qmasterd[293:1403] CDNSharedStorageServer::publishNotification: CException: SwampDaemon::NFSPublisher: authorization has expired

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5/30/12 3:40:32.000 PM kernel IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero

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5/30/12 3:41:29.034 PM Apple Qadministrator How did this happen!? JC is not captured!! Something is reeeeeaaaallly wrong! :-((
5/30/12 3:41:29.035 PM Apple Qadministrator JCName = RED LEADER (CC)

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5/30/12 3:42:30.591 PM DiskImages UI Agent Could not find image named ‘background’.
5/30/12 3:42:30.591 PM [0x0-0x3d03d].com.apple.DiskImageMounter 2012-05-30 15:42:30.589 DiskImages UI Agent[641:707] Could not find image named ‘background’.
5/30/12 3:42:35.398 PM DiskImages UI Agent *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection is invalid
5/30/12 3:42:35.399 PM [0x0-0x3d03d].com.apple.DiskImageMounter 2012-05-30 15:42:35.397 DiskImages UI Agent[641:707] *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection is invalid

[Doug Daulton]

Ian – All of the machine clocks are synced in Date/Time to the Apple time server. Is this what you meant?

DD

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

I swear I’m not just trying everything in the book but:

Are you connecting to the AFP share with an account that has write access?

I am assuming the firewall is off.

Have you tried resetting compressor/qmaster on the systems?

[Doug Daulton]

Ian – I really appreciate the help. So, don’t sweat it. 😀

1) When setting up the AFP share (in System Preferences >> Sharing), I gave Read/Write permissions to everyone. So, permissions should not be an issue, unless there is another way of setting them (CHMOD?) that I should be using.

2) No firewall of which I am aware. Is there something in OSX I should check?

3) As for resetting Compressor/QMaster, I have stopped and started Compressor, cleaned Compressor/QMaster 3.5 off of the systems and power cycled all of the boxes in the cluster. Is there is a “reset” switch in Compressor I am missing?

Thanks again.

Doug