[Paraview] "Save View Image" crashes X on my Intel Mac

Thu Aug 24 17:02:42 EDT 2006

Great!  Commenting out the SetOffScreenRendering calls works.  In the  
future I'll check the vtk-users list too.

Thanks for your help!

Bill

On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Mike Jackson wrote:

> On 8/24/06 4:05 PM, "William Klug" <klug at ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>> I did find the thread titled "PV crashed when saving image" from
>> June, where the problem was on Linux (Fedora Core 5) and seemed to be
>> resolved by a patch added to the cvs distribution.  Berk, you had
>> mentioned in this post:
>>    http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2006-June/003294.html
>> that there's a line that could be commented out to work around the
>> problem.  Can you point me to this line?
>>
>> Also, Joe, thanks for the head's up about the Apple X11-users list.
>> I'll check that out too.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Aug 24, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Berk Geveci wrote:
>>
>>> This has come up several time on the mailing list actually. We will
>>> track it down.
>>>
>>> -Berk
>>>
>>> On 8/24/06, William Klug < klug at ucla.edu> wrote:Hi all,
>>> I recently switched from a PowerBook to a new Intel-based
>>> MacBookPro.  Using the compile options specified in the FAQ,  
>>> ParaView
>>> compiles and runs just fine on the intel mac, but whenever I try to
>>> use the "Save View Image" command, X11 crashes.  I've tried stable
>>> releases ParaView-2.2, ParaView-2.4, and the cvs distribution, and
>>> all have the same problem.  As soon as I click "Save" after entering
>>> a file name, ParaView and X11 both die, leaving the message
>>>
>>>    X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>>>
>>> on the command line.  I'm guessing that X is crashing and taking
>>> ParaView with it, but I'm not sure what's causing the problem.  I've
>>> looked for clues in the mailing list archives, but haven't seen any
>>> mention of quite this sort of behavior.  Does anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> =============================================
>>> William S. Klug, Assistant Professor
>>> UCLA Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
>>> 48-121B Engineering IV, Los Angeles, CA 90095
>>> Tel: (310) 794-7347  Fax: (310) 206-4830
>>>
>
> This was on the VTK users mailing list:
>
>
> Have you tried what I suggested? Commenting out the offscreen  
> lines? It
> would be helpful in tracing the problem. I didn't get around to  
> compiling
> ParaView 2 on my new Mac yet. I should get around to it next week  
> or so.
>
> -Berk
>
> On 8/23/06, Stewart.Dickson at noaa.gov <Stewart.Dickson at noaa.gov >  
> wrote:
> Just to complain...
>
> This bug crashes X11 outright on MacOS-X (Darwin) 10.4.7
>
> Crash log attached.
>
> [Apple has a handy-dandy bug reporter which fires off every time an
> application goes down.  I've been using this lots.]
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Stewart Dickson
> Principal Scientific Subject Matter Expert in Visualization
> NOAA National Climatic Data Center
>
>
> Berk Geveci berk.geveci at gmail.com
> Mon Apr 10 12:27:01 EDT 2006
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> Try editing Servers/ServerManager/vtkSMRenderModuleProxy.cxx and
> commenting out this line (around line 1112)
>   this->GetRenderWindow()->SetOffScreenRendering(1);
> and this line:
>   this->GetRenderWindow()->SetOffScreenRendering(0);
> around line 1129.
> I have seen this problem before. I think it is due to an OpenGL
> driver/implementation bug.
>
> -Berk
>
> On 4/10/06, Kevin H. Hobbs < kevin.hobbs.1 at ohiou.edu> wrote:
>> I've been experiencing a crash when I try to save an image from
>> Paraview.  All that's required is for me to open Paraview, select  
>> "Save
>> View Image" from the file menu and enter a file name. The Paraview
>> window vanishes and the following is printed to the terminal:
>>
>> X Error of failed request:  GLXBadContext
>>   Major opcode of failed request:  144 (GLX)
>>   Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
>>   Serial number of failed request:  31500
>>   Current serial number in output stream:  31500
>>
>> I'm using paraview from today's CVS. This computer is running Fedora
>> Core 5.
>>
>> 'uname -a' says
>>
>> Linux gargon.hooperlab 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 14  
>> 15:48:20 EST
>> 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> I've made a bug report here:
>>
>> http://www.vtk.org/Bug/bug.php?op=show&bugid=3116&pos=1
>>
>>
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