[Orange-tech] twisted on xseed?

[Prof. Mark Alan Matties]

Toni Alatalo wrote:

>On Monday 13 February 2006 17:19, Prof. Mark Alan Matties wrote:
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>>I'll see about getting twisted installed today.
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>that might come now actually necessary - am right now looking into the twisted 
>ssh lib to implement a job starter thing that logs onto every node with ssh 
>and runs the job as if it was run in an interactive ssh session..
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I'm trying to install it now. Both darwin ports and fink sites seem to 
be slow or unreachable. My ISP may be having trouble. I will keep at it, 
though.

Regards,
Mark

>>Can you try again and let me know if you can render?
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>not with a remote command. starting blender and loading the data works:
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>---<successful run, not rendering>---
>ssh 10.224.10.77 DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/nfs/xseed2/homes/orange" 
>blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender -b 
>elephant/production/04_typewriter/04_01.blend                  
>enter background mode
>signalled escape
>font register
>def material
>before start python
>Using Python version 2.3
>after start python
>before post python
>after post python
>before read file
>read_libraries: lib //../lib/machine/typewriter/platform1.blend
>read_libraries: lib //../lib/proog/walkingstick.blend
>before sound init
>after sound init
>Blender quit
>---<end>----
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>then with the -f flag to render a single frame, nothing seems to happen:
>---<a hanging job>---
>xseed1:~/testbin orange$ ssh 10.224.10.77 
>DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/nfs/xseed2/homes/orange" 
>blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender -b 
>elephant/production/04_typewriter/04_01.blend -f 70
>---<end>---
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>.. just hangs. but in an interactive ssh it works. i wonder if this can be 
>something about how Blender uses stdout  .. but these are just printfs()!
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>---<successfull rendering in an interactive ssh session>---
>xseed1:~/testbin orange$ ssh 10.224.10.77                                      
>Welcome to Darwin!
>node77:~ orange$ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/nfs/xseed2/homes/orange" 
>blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender -b 
>elephant/production/04_typewriter/04_01.blend -f 70
>enter background mode
>signalled escape
>font register
>def material
>before start python
>Using Python version 2.3
>after start python
>before post python
>after post python
>before read file
>read_libraries: lib //../lib/machine/typewriter/platform1.blend
>read_libraries: lib //../lib/proog/walkingstick.blend
>before sound init
>after sound init
>-f frame render scene 0x31adc20
>creating speed vectors 
>...
>---<end>---
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>.. so now am trying to make a twisted thing that would do what that manual run 
>does, but of course just getting pdsh work again / ssh remote commanding work 
>would be good, but now idea where the prob is.
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>>Mark
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>~Toni
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>>Toni Alatalo wrote:
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>>>On Monday 13 February 2006 15:03, Toni Alatalo wrote:
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>>>>get anything now .. might be a prob with the job, and trying with a
>>>>simple one now
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>>>the problem is in pdsh.
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>>>for some very strange reason it manages to run blender, but not actually
>>>render - when rendering, it does not even initialize. worked earlier.
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>>>if it does not start working now i try to make a workaround where just use
>>>ssh to run blender on the nodes (probably quite easy to changes the
>>>xseedjobrender.py .. i hope)
>>>
>>>~Toni
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