[Paraview] Bug 0006714: pvbatch requires X server

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Yup, I am aware of the message. It needs a bit more clean up. I'll get 
to it as soon as I have some spare time.

Utkarsh

Iain Bethune wrote:
> However, I do still get the problem mentioned earlier in the thread where
> there is a spurious message about the processes failing to open an X
> connection, even when --use-offscreen-rendering is specified.
> 
> I had a look for the VTK_USE_X setting but there's not one in my
> CMakeCache.txt, so I'm not sure what to change to get this to work.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> - Iain
> 
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> Iain Bethune
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain Bethune [mailto:ibethune at epcc.ed.ac.uk] 
> Sent: 15 April 2008 10:14
> To: 'Utkarsh Ayachit'; 'eschenbe at psc.edu'; 'paraview at paraview.org'
> Subject: RE: [Paraview] Bug 0006714: pvbatch requires X server
> 
> Works for me too.  Of course now I have the problem that with the server
> compiled from CVS, it now won't connect back to my 3.2.1 Windows client...
> 
> When is the next stable version going to be released so I can get a matching
> Windows binary?
> 
> 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
> 
> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
> with registration number SC005336.
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com] 
> Sent: 14 April 2008 13:55
> To: eschenbe at psc.edu
> Cc: Iain Bethune
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Bug 0006714: pvbatch requires X server
> 
> Cool. I'll commit the patch to CVS.
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> Kent Eschenberg wrote:
>> That fixed it! The updated pvbatch just ran on our Linux cluster with 4 
>> nodes and 32 processors.
>>
>> Kent
>> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>>
>> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>> Kent/Iain,
>>>
>>> Here's another patch (the earlier patch had a typo--my bad)
>>>
>>> Make sure you follows these steps:
>>>
>>> * Update ParaView to current CVS head. The patch is against the CVS 
>>> head. There are a few fixes/changes in the CVS that affect the behaviour.
>>>
>>> * Then apply the patch
>>>
>>> * Ensure that paraview is built with OS mesa
>>>
>>> * Use the command line option "--use-offscreen-rendering". This option 
>>> must be specified before the python script name is provided as follows:
>>>  > ./bin/pvbatch --use-offscreen-rendering test.py
> 
>