[Paraview] Black render view with python & MPI build

[Iain Bethune]

The OpenGL (Mesa) libraries are static in all cases.

Is this likely to be the problem?

I'll try doing a build with shared libs for Mesa instead.

Cheers

- Iain

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-----Original Message-----
From: Berk Geveci [mailto:berk.geveci at kitware.com] 
Sent: 10 April 2008 17:46
To: Iain Bethune
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Black render view with python & MPI build

What about the OpenGL libraries? Are they static or shared?

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Iain Bethune <ibethune at epcc.ed.ac.uk>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I have build a number of different configurations (PV 3.2.1) and the
>  following ones work OK:
>
>  Paraview serial with python
>  Paraview with MPI without python (static libs)
>
>  But not
>
>  Paraview with MPI with python (shared libs).
>  Paraview with MPI withoutpython (shared libs).
>
>  In these cases I can run a server (one or many MPI tasks) and connect to
it
>  OK.  It will read files, and run filters OK, but all I ever see is a
black
>  render view.  The trigger for this appears to be any build where I set
>  BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON and PARAVIEW_USE_MPI=ON.  I have tried MPI on, and
>  shared libs off and this works fine, but unfortunately if I want to build
>  with python I am forced into using shared libs.
>
>  There are no error messages logged on the client or server side as far as
I
>  can see, just nothing appears in the render view except the XYZ axes (but
>  not the centre-of-rotation crosshairs).
>
>  Any ideas how to go about debugging this, or what I might be able to do
to
>  work around this?
>
>  Cheers
>
>  - Iain
>
>  --
>  Iain Bethune
>  Applications Consultant, EPCC
>
>  Email: ibethune at epcc.ed.ac.uk
>  Tel/Fax: +44 (0)131 650 5201/6555
>  Addr: 2404 JCMB, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ
>
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>  with registration number SC005336.
>
>
>
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