[Paraview] Can't connect any more in pv3

[John Biddiscombe]

FYI: Seems to have been a problem with one specific node on the cluster 
not seeing the network properly

JB

> I've been using pv3 all day long to connect using reverse connection 
> to an mpi spawned server, then I though I'd save myself some fiddling, 
> by entering the command into the configuration dialog for the 
> connection so that paraview client would
> ssh machineX mpirun -hostfile /users/biddisco/build/pv3/bin/pvserver 
> -rc --client-host=machineA
> etc etc
> It worked ok the first time, then I fiddled some more and now despite 
> deleting all servers, removing the paraview .config file, reentering 
> servers the way I've been doing for weeks, I cannot get anything 
> except this message from the client
>
>
> ERROR: In 
> /users/biddisco/code/ParaView3/Servers/Common/vtkProcessModuleConnectionManager.cxx, 
> line 180
> vtkProcessModuleConnectionManager (0x4f69290): Failed to set up server 
> socket.
>
> ERROR: In 
> /users/biddisco/code/ParaView3/Servers/Common/vtkProcessModuleConnectionManager.cxx, 
> line 200
> vtkProcessModuleConnectionManager (0x4f69290): Invalid ServerSocket 
> id: -1
>
>
> I didn't do anything else to the system except change servers - then 
> delete them and re-enter them. Reverse connection just fils 
> immediately now, whereas it used to open up the dialog and wait for a 
> connection...
>
> What do the two lines of error above really tell me, and how can I 
> make them go away. Unless someone has secretly reconfigured the 
> network whilst I wasn't looking, I cannot imagine why these errors 
> suddenly appeared.
>
> Clues?
>
> thanks
>
> JB
>
>


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