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Having plugins installed may be causing crashes?

I am trying to to figure this out, but I have been rarely got able to render pics using crowdrender because the secondary node I have (a ubuntu machine with a gtx 1080) crashes as soon as I press "render"

followed the documentation to render still images, but load balancing only shows my local machine unless I hit render on local and cancel the render then I can see my secondary node, plus, sync never really succeeds, it always says "sync failed" or "repairing X_Material" or "IK", I have all my resources packed in the files and both machines are running Blender 3.1 (the version I currently use for most of my work)

I attach a cr_log, I am starting to think having addons installed might have something to do with the crashes, I just find weird yesterday I was able to render flawlessly on both machines having manual load of .85/1 and now only local appears to render and my secondary node pushes a crash message on my mac

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12 Comments

charmandrigo

Aug 09, 2022

a bit of an update but I have installed some more addons mostly to create landscapes and libraries, it often crashes the addon after making one render, all my nodes get grayed out and it appears to log me off the "My Cloud Account", adding my credentials does nothing, restarting blender does not help, only thing that works is rebooting my mac to get the addon working again.

Is there a list of addons that can potentially break crowdrender?

James Crowther

Sep 06, 2022

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Not a list as such, but you can try starting Blender in factory startup mode. You can do this pretty easily by pressing cmd + space and then typing "terminal"

then enter the following

cd /Users/Drigo/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Blender/Blender.app/Contents/MacOs

and then

./Blender -b --fatory-startup

this will start Blender with all the addon's disabled. You can then enable Crowdrender and try to recreate the crash. If it still happens, then you can be sure its not another addon you have installed.

If it no longer crashes, then its likely another addon, happy to look into it either way. Also, make sure you can reproduce the crash reliably. If there's a sequence of steps that usually causes the crash, try to write these down and be certain that they can force the crash.

Without a reliable process to recreate the crash, its super hard to fix. About as hard as asking a building to repair a hole in the wall that isn't there to be honest. Can't fix the problem if it doesn't happen.