Re: [dvd::rip] cluster mode problem: tries to merge 2nd audio track before encoding it

["Triffid Hunter" <triffid_hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like parent nodes have their percent completed updated even if  
there's an error - Put a new project into the cluster, started it off, one  
of my nodes' transcode was segfaulting, and the failed jobs had a  
duration, were marked [error], yet their parent nodes were marked 50%  
completed. Restarting the project retried the errored jobs correctly, but  
it is now clear that if a job's last child job fails, the job will  
incorrectly be marked completed.

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:15:32 +1000, Triffid Hunter  
<triffid_hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I had a look in the cluster master's project file. A job had its state  
> set to finished, even though a child node wasn't finished.
>
> The job started exhibiting this effect when a child job was sent to a  
> node which didn't have oggenc yet.
>
> Manually changing the job's status to waiting (and restarting the  
> cluster master) seems to have got the ball rolling nicely, encoding  
> audio before trying to merge it.
>
> Perhaps a consistency check of the jobs' states and output files button  
> would be good, in case things go pear shaped as they do sometimes
>
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:04:47 +1000, Triffid Hunter  
> <triffid_hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > As in topic, I've a project that won't continue because it tries to  
> > merge an audio track it hasn't "processed" yet. The process job is  
> > above it in the list and marked "waiting". I have three idle nodes in  
> > the cluster, but that's the only job it tries to start when I restart  
> > the project.
> >
> > All the video jobs are complete, although I had to restart several  
> > times to get there since transcode was segfaulting for a little while  
> > on one node.
> >
> > Nice to see that restarting the project keeps completed jobs, but a way  
> > to re-do jobs or remove their result & mark not done could be handy :)
> >
> > Would it be possible/feasible to use gnu make to work out some parts of  
> > the process? It's job is quite similar to what dvdrip sets up.
> >
> > -Triffid Hunter