AutoDesk Smoke :: Stone / Wire Is Turning On And Off On Random
Mar 26, 2013
I was waiting for a long time to get back to smoke since I left that FFI platform few years ago. Installed a demo to check the stability of the program on OSX. Have a problem with Stone+Wire. Smoke wont start - i get an error that he cant connect to stone. Checked Service Monitor - Stone+Wire is blinking red and green, the same as wiretap server. When I press restart, it goes green for a few seconds then goes back to red again.
My rig : 2 x 2.66 6-Core Xenon 17GB Ram os 10.6.8 and I'm setting up media storage to external G-Speed raid-5 that is connected by ESATA.
here are long files
sw_served
# Discreet sw_serverd log file - 1.0
# Started - (CET) Tue Mar 26 13:13:37 2013
# Hostname - Gonzo.local
376479744 CoThreadPthread.C:200 03/26/13:13:13:37.447 Registered thread 'Logger'
398798848 CoThreadPthread.C:200 03/26/13:13:13:37.490 Registered thread 'S+W Gateway connection timer monitor'
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Sep 5, 2012
I made it through a project with a few Smoke crashes, mostly on a particular clip. Then when I go back to make revisions a day later I get this message:
Error: VOLUMEMGT: Failed to initialize Stone+Wire connection.
Everything was working fine up to that point besides the few Smoke crashes that recovered with no problem.I am really in a bind now and need to finish this project urgently.sw_logs_2.txt
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I have successfully finished 2 projects in Pre2, but today, Smoke started to crash when I forced it to save.
Stone&Wire is red, and won’t restart.
After typing
cat /usr/discreet/sw/log/sw_dbd.log
into terminal I got this:
unknownd830624e3a74:~ Tomi$ cat /usr/discreet/sw/log/sw_dbd.log
# Discreet sw_dbd log file - 1.0
# Started - (CET) Mon Aug 6 01:18:10 2012
# Hostname - unknownd830624e3a74
5246976 CoThreadPthread.C:200 08/06/12:01:18:10.310 Registered thread ‘Logger’
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I have rebooted several times, but no luck. I’m not a programmer, but as far as I understand, the problem is on a framestore. Funny thing is, the last saved version is still available in Smoke, everything is in place, and it plays normally, just when it comes to saving or exporting, it crashes, or refuses to export.
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I read studios2010 problem and it sounds like I have something similar.
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