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Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2011 4:57 pm**

I'm trying to setup a render farm using Fedora Linux 15. Since the mxnetwork executable does even as a node require an X server I tried using the Xvfb which works from an interactive shell without a problem. For some reason when I try to start the node on startup (it happens as the last process) the X server gets started as well as the render node but it won't connect.

I thought it might be that the networking isn't running, yet, but I confirmed that networking is up at the moment the node is started. Anyone using a similar setup?

Any chance we can get an executable that does not need X at all?

Posted: **Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:41 am**

Hi
Just to clarify
Do you mean the rendernode command will not connect to the virtual buffer?
Or the rendernode will not connect to the network?

EDIT: And where have you chosen to launch these processes for startup?

El

Posted: **Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:25 pm**

The render node will not connect to the network when using the command on startup.

I used the rc.local file to run the command. That did not work. Then I created a bash file to start only in run level 3 putting it in rc3.d and using it as the last file to be started by naming it S99maxwell.

Thanks

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:59 pm**

Don't know Fedora but the only reason I can guess is that, don't know why, your process is starting too early.

Maybe you can do a little bash script, starting with:

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# wait 30 seconds
sleep 30
# start maxwell render node
....here your command line

Rickyx

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