[Paraview] Bug 0006714: pvbatch requires X server

[Kent Eschenberg]

Thanks! Sorry it took so long to try. The results are exactly the same in both the version using MPI (run with mpiexec -np 2 pvbatch) and the one without (run with pvbatch).

Both display windows. The non-mpi version doesn't crash because it finds an X server.

I know gdb and my versions have been compiled for debugging. Can you think of a key location where I could stop it and look at some variables? If we could convince the non-mpi version to refrain from looking for an X server we have probably fixed the mpi version too.

Kent

Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Kent,
> 
> Here's a patch to enable use-offscreen-rendering. Can you verify if that 
> helps?
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
>> Ah.  I didn't realize that pvbatch did not support 
>> --use-offscreen-rendering.
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kent Eschenberg [mailto:eschenbe at psc.edu]
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:45 PM
>>> To: Moreland, Kenneth
>>> Cc: ParaView
>>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Bug 0006714: pvbatch requires X server
>>>
>>> Yes, and have verfied what is being used with "ldd pvbatch". Note 
>>> that the
>>> Wiki reference you provide is about setting up a server, not batch.
>>>
>>> pvbatch does not support the option "--use-offscreen-rendering" and 
>>> should
>>> not need that option when the cmake option "use offscreen rendering" has
>>> been set.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Kent
>>>
>>> Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
>>>> 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