After upgrading to MC 8.5, I'm noticing that background services are no longer functioning, though I'll admit that I have not used them in the last few weeks before the upgrade.
Steps taken so far:
- Uninstalled & reinstalled MC 3 times (the final of which was a clean/manual uninstall)
- Created a new user. The new user account runs background services fine.
- Disabled all firewall & antivirus software on the system (Norton), including the OS firewall
- Turned off wi-fi (though others mentioned they had issues with wired connections)
Here's what I get in the log when attempting to run a background render:
Feb 9, 2016 11:47:05 AM(18)INFO: waiting for Host ready com.avid.dmfengine.natives.AMAHostImpl:startHost
Feb 9, 2016 11:47:10 AM(18)SEVERE: IOException encountered when creating socket to native code service, ex: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused com.avid.dmfengine.natives.oop.SocketClient:initSocket
Feb 9, 2016 11:47:10 AM(18)SEVERE: Error creating socket to native code service, unable to call native code! com.avid.dmfengine.natives.oop.SocketClient:initSocket
Feb 9, 2016 11:47:10 AM(18)INFO: result from EXTRACT_AAF_FROM_FILE is com.avid.dmfengine.natives.AMAHostImpl:nativeOOPIsHostRunning
Feb 9, 2016 11:47:10 AM(18)SEVERE: Exception deserializing xml: null com.avid.dmfengine.natives.appdata.IsHostRunningResponse:JAXBDeserialize
Migrating to new user account (Avid Tech Support recommendation) appears painfully possible, but if there's any way to keep that from happening I'd sure like to avoid it. Thoughts?