3dsmax adapter error: 3dsmax.exe process no response

[Anonymous]

I have been rendering an animation with 3ds Max 2019, V-Ray 4.20.01 and Back-burner 2018 with no issues until randomly, upon posting more sequences, have been getting errors upon opening Max on some slaves.

All 3ds Max versions, plugins are the same version numbers. (They have not changed since everything was working)

Some failed servers are running Windows 10 and some are running windows 7. Vice versa working servers are both windows versions.

I have restarted everything and still fails. Error log for an example failed server is below;

[dbhinnant]

Welcome to Backburner Hell.  Wish I had an answer for you.

[Anonymous]

That cheered me up at least 🙃

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Populate data... I had merged some geometry in which had some old populate nodes attached! Populate was not installed on the workstation but was installed on the bad nodes.

[dbhinnant]

Wouldn't it be nice if the error message gave you a clue?  Lol, glad you figured it out.