[Paraview] Bug 0006714: pvbatch requires X server

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Have you linked to the OSMesa library?  Once you do that, you should no longer need an X server.  See the Wiki.

  http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server#OSMesa_support

-Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
> On Behalf Of Kent Eschenberg
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:51 AM
> To: ParaView
> Subject: [Paraview] Bug 0006714: pvbatch requires X server
>
> 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
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