Distributed render flips out completely

[Monkeybrother]

I'm trying to render a region using DR. I've set DR to "enabled", "search while rendering" is disabled, and get 27 render nodes although I only have 9. While rendering, it jumps 50 passes at a time and after a minute it says "rendering pass 234" and every pass gets darker and darker until the whole render is almost completely black (I then pressed "stop"). This is a bit disheartening. Any idea why Corona is doing this?

I'm using 1.5.

[Monkeybrother]

Now I sent the scene to our farm using deadline instead, but then Corona ignores my render region and renders the whole scene. What is going on?

[maru]

Are you sure you are using Corona 1.5 and DR server app from the 1.5 installer?

Did you follow this guide? https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/solution/articles/5000501666-how-to-use-distributed-rendering-

[Monkeybrother]

Are you sure you are using Corona 1.5 and DR server app from the 1.5 installer?

Did you follow this guide? https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/solution/articles/5000501666-how-to-use-distributed-rendering-

Yes, I'm sure. Everything worked fine for 1.4, all I did was install 1.5 on my workstation and the farm computers.