[Paraview] Bug 0006714: pvbatch requires X server

[Kent Eschenberg]

pvbatch cannot be run on a node unless that node has an X server. This makes it impossible to run a batch job on 99.99% of the parallel systems because most nodes don't have an X server.

The CVS version updated around 4/1/2008 12:10pm was used. It was linked to Mesa 7.0.1 and all of the GL-releated items point to Mesa. Also the "use offscreen rendering" option was set. The CMakeCache.txt file has been uploaded.

A Python program run by pvbatch works fine on one node, the one on which I have logged in to the parallel system, because it has access to an X server. However, the program crashes when using more than one node because the others don't have an X server.

P.S. I hope I am wrong and that I have merely done something stupid. Please let me know if there is a way to make this work.

Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center