Blender Render Farm Tutorial

This tutorial will talk you through how to use the Render Farm in S721. You will be able to submit a job, and collect the files when finished.

1. Load up Blender 2.73a found in Applications > Blender 2.73a > Blender
2. You will need to enable the render farm plugin
1. Go to File > User Preferences
   
2. Go to "Render" on the left hand list
3. Enable "Network Renderer"
   
4. Close this window
5. At the top go to where it says "Blender Render" and select "Network Render":
   
6. On the lower right hand panel you will see the controls for network rendering:
   
7. Once a job is submitted you will have to wait until it is complete before collecting the files.

On the Master Machine (the Mac Pro teaching machine) you can log in and access the queue viewer.

1. Open a web browser on this machine
2. in the URL type
1. http://localhost:8000

 Done

Blender render farm - built in Network renderer

Well, I tested this last year, but I can't believe it, I can't find any mention of me doing it. It either means I forgot to write it up, or didn't write it up in this blog! Oh well, here's a new writeup:

The only files I have to go from are two files named:
master.blend
slave.blend

Basically, these files have presets in them, so whichever machine opens them either becomes the master or the slave.

Here's a document I found which has 'slave.blend' mentioned in it, looks very promising.

1. First thing is to load blender, and load the Network Renderer plugin. Go to:
1. File > User Preferences > Render > Network render > tick:
   
2. Up the top, next to File, Edit menus, there is a dropdown usually on "Scene". Select "Network Render":
   
3. On the far right you should see the Network Render settings:
   
4. Click Master on the machine you want to control jobs. Make sure it's a machine which is always on, perhaps with storage space which can be shared to other machines (not worked out where rendered files are stored)
1. Click Start Service
5. You can now view the jobs and clients connected to the master by browsing to the webpage:
1. http://ipAddressOfMaster:8000:
   
1. I had trouble with this, but found it was because I was on the master machine and so had to type:
1. http://localhost:8000/
2. There is also a newer jquery interface: /html/newui#interface:
   
6.  Now start another machine as a slave
7. On the final machine, load up a nice file and click "Send Job":
   
8. The systems so good, the end files end up where-ever you said for the output (at the bottom of the client list). You can even download renders from previous jobs!!

Now that I got it all working, the plan was to save a master.blend file and a slave.blend file and have them load up when the machines are started, from command line. Here it goes:

 To run the master:
/Applications/Blender\ 2.73a/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender -b /Users/Shared/master.blend --addons netrender -a -noaudio -nojoystick

The slave:
/Applications/Blender\ 2.73a/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender -b /Users/Shared/slave.blend --addons netrender -a -noaudio -nojoystick 

Seems to work very nicely. One thing to note is that the IP address of the master has to be saved in the slave.blend file. I don't know how to add this through the command line.

The next thing is to get the slave.blend command to launch at system startup, and run as root.

Found this question and answer in stackoverflow 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>uk.ac.chesterfield.dci.blender.client</string> <!-- org.mongodb.mongodb perhaps? -->

    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
  
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
  
    <key>ProcessType</key>
    <string>Background</string>

    <key>UserName</key>
    <string>root</string>

    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
            <string>/Applications/Blender 2.73a/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/blender</string>
            <string>-b</string>
            <string>/Users/Shared/slave.blend</string>
            <string>--addons</string>
            <string>netrender</string>
            <string>-a</string>
            <string>-noaudio</string>
            <string>-nojoystick</string>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

OS X installing Profiles .mobileconfig files through ARD command line

I've not quite got OS X server running pushing changes to macs yet, so in the mean time I have to change a profile through the web service, download it and install it on the machines I want to update.

I found this article which helped doing it through command line:

/usr/bin/profiles -I -F "/Library/MyOrganization/Company Wi-Fi.mobileconfig"

I first copied the file to "Users/Shared" then ran this script. To improve it, I could make a pkg file which ran a script to install the file. That is the next step

OS X Mavericks - No disk space on startup disk - files that can be deleted

After re-imaging a new Macbook Pro 13", I discovered that it only had a 120GB Hard Drive. The Disk Image I use takes up all of this space, so files have to be deleted. The applications that take the most disk space are:

Soundtrack Pro Loops
DVD Studio Pro Content
Motion Content
LiveType Content
Logic Content

so, after imaging these machines type this in to remove these things:

rm -R /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Audio/Apple\ Loops/Apple/Apple\ Loops\ for\ Soundtrack\ Pro/
rm -R /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Application\ Support/Final\ Cut\ Studio/DVD\ Studio\ Pro/
rm -R /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Application\ Support/Final\ Cut\ Studio/Motion/         
rm -R /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Application\ Support/LiveType/
rm -R /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Application\ Support/Logic/

Should make about 57.05GB

As the MacBook Pro is for a manager, these applications arent' needed.

Mavericks Black Screen with Cursor (mouse)

Just encountered two Mac Mini's which, when turned on, show a black screen with a cursor which moves when you move the mouse. cmd + alt + esc doesn't do anything.

Tried:

1. reset PRAM
2. SafeBoot (hold down shift)
3. hold down cmd + s and type "/sbin/fsck -yf"

I gave up and reimaged these macs.

Did a bit of research afterwards and found this apple discussions on it. There were two suggested fixes. One involved blindly logging in which isn't an ICT Technician friendly fix. However, Spiro.r suggested:

1. ssh 192.160.0.1 -l username
2. sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
3. sudo rm /Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist
4. sudo rm /private/var/db/.AppleUpgrade
5. reboot


As ssh is by default turned off, you could also do this in single user mode (hold down cmd + s).

Apparently it is a problem with updates. It basically wants you to log in and OK an update, but seems to stop the login screen appearing. Not entirely sure anyone knows what's happening, but deleting these preference files and .AppleUpgrade fixes it. I shall try it next time I see it.

Apple Remote Desktop ARD preferences and presets transfer

It's always good to have a backup of all the preferences and tasks you have saved in ARD. I thought I had it sussed,  just need the file:

~/Library/Prefeences/com.apple.remotedesktop.plist

Turns out as of version 3.7 it's all been 'sandbox'ed. That means these prefences files have been moved to:
~/Library/Container/com.apple.remotedesktop/Library/Preferences/com.apple.remotedesktop.plist

But not only this, it has to have the right ACL's (permissions)

What I tried to do is copy this file between accounts and it ended up replacing the copied file with a blank one every time. It wasn't until I read this post which mentioned resetting ACL's. THis is the command they suggested using:

{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
So first I copied the com.apple.remotedesktop.plist file to  

~/Library/Container/com.apple.remotedesktop/Library/Preferences/com.apple.remotedesktop.plist

I then ran the command in terminal.

Then I logged out and back in again.

Crash bang wollop it worked.

Cheers

Mavericks "The software for the printer was installed incorrectly" error

After reimaging a computer suite with Mavericks and installing a networked printer via "Profile Manager" mobileconfig files, the printer had an exclamation mark next to it in the print dialogue box. When a print was sent to the queue, the print queue would load up and prompt the error:

"The software for the printer was installed incorrectly.
Would you like it to be repaired?"

After clicking "Repair" you are prompted with an Administrator Username and Password dialogue box.

I needed to find a way of "repairing" all these machines via ARD or Profile Manager. Looking in console, I found that the error was due to:
"/Library/Printers/hp/filter/hpPostProcessing.bundle/Contents/MacOS/hpPostProcessing" has insecure permissions (0100775/uid=0/gid=80)"

I found this forum which mentions the fix which is to change owner and permissions.

I ran a few commands to first change the owner, which needs to be Wheel, and the permissions with need to be 755. After doing so, I needed to reboot to see if it had fixed it, only to come up with more errors due to insecure permissions of the containing folders. After continuously doing this it finally fixed it.

I ended up running a command which changed the permissions for the whole /Library/Printers folder recursively:

chmod -R g-w /Library/Printers/
chown -R root:wheel /Library/Printers/

This needs to be run as root, which is an option in ARD, or you can put "sudo" before each line.

Mavericks Server Deploy Studio Multicasting tests

I read the wiki page on multicasting from the Deploy Studio wiki pages.

When I'm imaging one machine, I'm getting a download rate of 8.5MB/s, and a variable write rate, but it is a compressed image. When I put 5 machines on, I'm getting about 1MB/s download rate, which is too slow for my liking, especially with a 89GB Image file.

The server is a new (2014 - July) mac mini server, 8GB RAM, 2 x SSD 256GB, Mirror RAID. Deploy Studio 1.6.11

Repository is stored on another server, on a different subnet which might cause issues? Shared via CIFS.

The Server is on GigaBit LAN so I'm trying a 10MB/s stream rate to start with.

The computer suite I'm testing on are Mac Mini's from 2011, 4GB RAM, 500GB SATA HD's.

To get the Client Write Disk Speed I put in this command in the terminal:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test bs=1024 count=1048576
Password:
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
1073741824 bytes transferred in 18.062331 secs (59446470 bytes/sec)

This converts to 59MB/s

Test 1

clients: 5
Stream Data Rate: 10MBs
Client Disk Speed: 43MBs

Conclusion: Got about 20 fails on each computer before 2% of a 89GB compressed image.

Realised I didn't scan for restore. At this point I scanned the image for restore using Disk Utility on Server.

Test 2

clients: 2
Stream Data Rate 10MBs
Client Disk Speed: 42MBs

Conclusion: Got about 7 fails on both machines before 2%

Test 3

clients: 16
Stream Data Rate 6MBs
Client Disk Speed: 38MBs

Conclusion: Got 2 fails in the first 2%, but 7 more fails in the next 6%. Interestingly, 7 out of the 16 started doing the recovery partition first, and as it was so quick, got onto the main image after the rest were over 2%. This might explain the packet loss. Getting a consistent 13 fails per 8%. Not sure if this works out at less then 20% or more? Seems to have failed to reimage 3 out of 16, which is good.




For the next test I wanted to see if having the images on the server itself would speed things up. I setup the repository in NetBootSP0 in /Library/Netboot/NetBootSP0

Test 4

Clients: 4
Stream Data Rate 6MBs
Client Disk Speed: 38MBs

Conclusion: 1 machine out of 4 got 20 fails before 2%, but then only got 2 more for the whole restore. Must have been a network spike or something. The others report very little (smallest so far) fails! Yay. Think I'll try and speed it up for next test.

Blender render farm for OS X in background

Hi, I want to set up a render farm at our College to run on any machine in the background with minimal installation and setup.

It looks like the built in render farm to blender is only acceptable on smaller scales where all machines are logged in, and have blender open and running. This isn't the right solution for me.

A while back I set up a render farm for Maya using OS X Qmaster. This runs in the background without anyone logged in, receives jobs and executes command line arguments. A network share is mounted on all machines running it. Looks like Qmaster isn't set up correctly on Mavericks, also might be some compatibility issues for it too. Looks like you can set up with command line:

sudo SystemStarter start Qmaster

qmasterprefs -list

Current settings:

 -sharingType servicesAndQuickCluster

 -launchContentAgent off

Bus error: 10

qmasterprefs -cluster on servername "test1"

Bus error: 10

I'm getting "Bus Error: 10" every time I run any commands

I also setup Blender to render over Xgrid, but Apple has pulled this out of the new servers so I'll give this a miss for now.

Farmerjoe render farm, looks alright. Need to install Perl I think.

DrQueue looks interesting, but you do need to compile it first.

Backburner is more promising, as we can also use it for Maya and any autodesk app. Found an article here which almost proves it. So here's my attempt a few years ago to get it working. I tried once more but couldn't get the web monitor working, might be because I've got the server app installed? Or it's mavericks? I shall continue with this.

Turn off indexing (spotlight)

Just trying to get Mavericks server working, and logged in as an Active Directory user on it. Seems mds_stores is using a large amount of processing. found this post which says to turn it off, in terminal type:

sudo mdutil -a -i off

This is the message in terminal I got when I typed the command in:

/:

Indexing disabled.

/Volumes/Scratch 1:

Indexing disabled.

/Volumes/Scratch 1/Home Folders:

Indexing disabled.

Might be to do with the fact I was trying to get home folders working, something to do with profile manager. Anyway, the command did stop the large processing.

Mac OS X clients getting wrong DNS names

Hi, so we've had macs here for a long time. We eventually got them working with the Active Directory, and with this I thought would also come the DNS or DDNS names i.e. mymac.instituation.ac.uk (for local network stuff). I must iterate here that this is just for internal name lookups, nothing external here, no internet related stuff, intranet ONLY.

So, it worked on most of them. After adding them to active directory, they got their names: 'mymac1.institution.ac.uk', but for about 1 in 5 macs (we have about 150) it'll give it the DNS name of some random machine in college! So instead of it saying 'mymac.institution.ac.uk' it'll say 'somonesPC.institution.ac.uk' !!!!!

I've put up with it for about 7 years, just used the mac sharing name instead, and remembering IP addresses. But we're trying to integrate the macs further into the network, and this is perhaps one of the last hurdles.

Anyway, I did some searching and found this quite frustrating forum. Seems lots of people not communicating very well. At the end, someone suggested this solution. I've yet to try it but if anyone has any comments?


So, I've now found a command which changes: Computer Name, Host Name, Local Host Name:
scutil --get ComputerName
scutil --get HostName
scutil --get LocalHostName

The Computer Name and Local Host Name is the one set up through System Preferences > Sharing, at the top


scutil --get ComputerName|scutil --set HostName

OS X Mavericks AD failed to login because an error occurred

After updating to Mavericks 10.9.1 I seem to be having problems logging in under active directory.

Found this post which describes similar issues.

Seems my problem is now fixed. Not sure what caused it or fixed it though.

iMac 24 inch 7,1 SOS beeps

An iMac is beeping when switched on. Beeps are 3 short, 3 long, 3 short:

beep, beep, beep, beeeeeeep, beeeeeeep, beeeeeeep, beep, beep, beep

Basically SOS

So far I've tried:

1. swapping RAM with working computer
2. swapping power cable with working computer
3. holding down D and other keys

Looks like its a EFI ROM corruption. Could possibly be the battery. Will try replacing the Battery first. Here's a tutorial on it

installing MFD canon IR 5840 and 4080 printers using only one queue

So we have a print management system, and Canon Multi Function devices installed everywhere. When we send a print, it goes to only one queue, and will print on whatever MFD you log on to. TRouble is there are multiple models, i.e.

Canon IR C4080
Canon iR C4580
Canon 5840

When we send a print to the 4080 using the 4080 PCL drivers from a Mac, it prints fine. If we send them to the 5840 it prints gobble-de-goop.

So now I'm testing the 5840 drivers on both to see what happens. I'm not sure which to try, the PS drivers or the UFR II (whatever that means) drivers.

Trying the Mac CUPS UFRII/UFRII LT Printer Driver (v10.2.1)  driver:
4080 - blank A3 page

Canon PS Printer Driver for MacOSX v4.00 (v4.00)  driver:
4080 - blank A3 page

Find the IP address of a computer with know MAC address (ethernet ID)

So, on my server it is reporting an issue with a computer with MAC address AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF (obviously I made this one up).

Trouble is, I know this computers MAC address but not it's IP address. So how do you find it?

Well, found this forum and this forum which basically tells you to use the command 'arp':

arp -a | grep "AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF "

arp lists all MAC address of computers on your subnet. But it's taking a long time. Reading more in the forum it looks like it works by pinging all the IP addresses, then asking it for it's MAC address. Long winded!

installing iLife through Apple Remote Desktop Task Server

So, I need to install iLife '09 through ARD Task Server on 17 machines. When install the iLife '09.mpkg file from my machine straight to one machine it works fine. If I give it the option to use the task server it comes up with:
Completed but failed on 1 package ""

In console on that machine I found this line:

17/12/2013 16:03:26.476 com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent: iLife09.mpkg/Contents/Installers/iPhoto.mpkg/Contents/Installers/iPhotoContent.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz: (Empty error message)

I tried renaming the mpkg file so as not to have the '09 but did not effect it.

I'm now trying it from the command line. The plan is to just send some commands to the machine to mount the server share, and run the installer:

mkdir /Volumes/YourTMPFolder

mount -t afp afp://admin:yourPassword@your.server.here/YourShare /Volumes/YourTMPFolder

installer -package /Volumes//Volumes/YourTMPFolder/iLife09.mpkg -target /
umount /Volumes/YourTMPFolder

Works perfectly!

Apple Mac bootcamp reimaging with Windows 7 Blue Screen

We've been testing out a new re-imaging process for our Apple macs specifically to re-image them with Windows 7. It means that the imaging process is the same for all Windows 7 machines.

The trouble we are having is that after about 10 mins or less, the windows 7 machine, both iMacs and Mac Pro's, blue screen.

Unfortunately, the blue screen itself does not provide any answers. I haven't had a good look at the dmp files.

I did a google search and found this and this. Both of these forums are looking at an AppleMNT.sys problem, associated with mounting HFS volumes. I shall give this a go.

Problems with Administrator login for 10.7 imaged macs

In the computer suites with 10.7 image machines I'm having a problem with the administrator account. When I login as the local administrator UID 501 I have no access to any of this users home folders, inluding the ~/Library folder. Having a look at the permissions shows that administrator is the owner with read-write permissions. Typing in the command:
sudo chown -R $USER ~$USER

Comes up with:
Folder does not exist

but typing in:
sudo chown -R $USER ~/Users/administrator


Administrators-iMac-49:~ administrator$ id -u $USER
501
Administrators-iMac-49:~ administrator$ ls -Al
total 64
-rw-------   1 administrator  staff      3  5 Jul  2012 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw-r--r--@  1 administrator  staff  12292 10 Jul  2012 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x   4 administrator  staff    136  6 Jul  2012 .adobe
-rw-------   1 administrator  staff   3357 12 Jul  2012 .bash_history
-rwxrwxrwx@  1 administrator  staff     30  6 Jul  2012 .fgufohsrc
-rw-r--r--@  1 administrator  staff     17  6 Jul  2012 .sewtzsfn
drwxr-xr-x   2 administrator  staff     68  6 Jul  2012 Applications
drwx------+  5 administrator  staff    170 15 Oct 15:40 Desktop
drwx------+  7 administrator  staff    238  9 Jul  2012 Documents
drwx------+  6 administrator  staff    204 10 Jul  2012 Downloads
drwx------+ 39 administrator  staff   1326  9 Jul  2012 Library
drwx------+  3 administrator  staff    102  5 Jul  2012 Movies
drwx------+  4 administrator  staff    136  9 Jul  2012 Music
drwx------+  5 administrator  staff    170  6 Jul  2012 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x+  5 administrator  staff    170  5 Jul  2012 Public
lrwxr-xr-x   1 administrator  staff     63 12 Jul  2012 Send Registration -> /Users/administrator/Library/Assistants/Send Registration.setup
Administrators-iMac-49:~ administrator$ sudo chown -R $USER ~
Password:
Administrators-iMac-49:~ administrator$ ls -Al
total 64
-rw-------   1 administrator  staff      3  5 Jul  2012 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw-r--r--@  1 administrator  staff  12292 10 Jul  2012 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x   4 administrator  staff    136  6 Jul  2012 .adobe
-rw-------   1 administrator  staff   3357 12 Jul  2012 .bash_history
-rwxrwxrwx@  1 administrator  staff     30  6 Jul  2012 .fgufohsrc
-rw-r--r--@  1 administrator  staff     17  6 Jul  2012 .sewtzsfn
drwxr-xr-x   2 administrator  staff     68  6 Jul  2012 Applications
drwx------+  5 administrator  staff    170 15 Oct 15:40 Desktop
drwx------+  7 administrator  staff    238  9 Jul  2012 Documents
drwx------+  6 administrator  staff    204 10 Jul  2012 Downloads
drwx------@ 39 administrator  staff   1326  9 Jul  2012 Library
drwx------+  3 administrator  staff    102  5 Jul  2012 Movies
drwx------+  4 administrator  staff    136  9 Jul  2012 Music
drwx------+  5 administrator  staff    170  6 Jul  2012 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x+  5 administrator  staff    170  5 Jul  2012 Public
lrwxr-xr-x   1 administrator  staff     63 12 Jul  2012 Send Registration -> /Users/administrator/Library/Assistants/Send Registration.setup


fixes the problem. Logging out and back in again randomly recreates the problem. It's as though there are two administrators with different UID's and it's random which one it logs in with. There is the possibility that there is a networked account. Next I shall switch off networked accounts and log in.

Just used the ls command which lists the UID instead of username:
ls -n
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   2 1414341556  20    68  6 Jul  2012 Applications
drwx------+  5 1414341556  20   170 15 Oct 15:40 Desktop
drwx------+  7 1414341556  20   238  9 Jul  2012 Documents
drwx------+  6 1414341556  20   204 10 Jul  2012 Downloads
drwx------+ 39 1414341556  20  1326  9 Jul  2012 Library
drwx------+  3 1414341556  20   102  5 Jul  2012 Movies
drwx------+  4 1414341556  20   136  9 Jul  2012 Music
drwx------+  5 1414341556  20   170  6 Jul  2012 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x+  5 1414341556  20   170  5 Jul  2012 Public
lrwxr-xr-x   1 1414341556  20    63 12 Jul  2012 Send Registration -> /Users/administrator/Library/Assistants/Send Registration.setup
Administrators-iMac-75:~ administrator$

Sorted, it simply thinks that there is an administrator account with UID 1414341556


Administrators-iMac-75:~ administrator$ id -u $USER
501
Administrators-iMac-75:~ administrator$

I have now run the command:
chown -R 501 /Users/administrator

I have yet to find a re-occurrence.

------------------- march 2014

well, I found a re-occurrence. I ended up renaming the administrator account to:

administratorb

Cheers

Deleting 'forced' local home folders created from OS X 10.7 Active Directory Logins

When users log in to the apple macs at the college it creates a local home on the machine to save preferences and files, and mounts their home drive too.

After a year these fill up. After a few searches and researches, looks like the easiest way is to write a script which deletes all folders except certain ones. Looks like you can use the 'find' command. Found a good example here:

find . -maxdepth 1 -not -name 'filename.gif' -iname '*.gif' -delete

Here's the man page for find

So, I don't want to delete the folders:
Guest
Shared
administrator
media

So:

find . -maxdepth 1 -not -name 'Guest' -not -name 'Shared' -not -name 'administrator' -not -name 'media' -name '*' -delete

I tried '*.*' but it only then deletes files with '.' in them, not folders. '*' selects everything including folders

Actually, I found here that the slightly better way to do it was to use the -exec rm instead of -delete. This then tells you which directories were actually deleted:

find /Users/Shared -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name 'administrator' -not -name 'Guest' -not -name 'Shared' -not -name 'media' -exec rm -Rvf {} \;

The -mindepth 1 option makes sure it doesn't delete the parent directory.

A longer term solution would be to delete these folders on logout, so the students and staff could get used to not relying on these folders.

Installing Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch on OS X using ARD Apple Remote Desktop error

It's a long story, but I'll cut it short. Anyhow, I have 12 x Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch model number CTH-470 and they need installing on all Mac Computers. No problem, except the installer looks like an .app file. If you view the package contents you find a couple of pkg files. The most important is the "Install Bamboo.pkg".

Running this installer locally installs the tablet minus the dock (I don't think it's important). So, next thing is to try via Apple Remote Desktop (ARD). This ends up coming up with an error:

"Install Bamboo.pkg" could not be installed. Error message: "running package scripts..."

Well, just like the last time I tried to install Wacom tablets through ARD, turns out this error message isn't really an error message. After a reboot the tablet works like a dream on the computer.

Hope this helps someone.