[Paraview] Mesa/Offscreen Rendering

[Rick Angelini(CISD/CIV)]

Does this need to be reported as a bug?

Jean Favre wrote:
>
> On 26, Aug 2008 09:58 PM, Rick Angelini(CISD/CIV) <angel at arl.army.mil>
> wrote:
>  
> >When I fire up pvserver and connect back to the client, and load up
> >some
> >geometry (max'd out sphere, for instance), I get a number of X-windows
> >errors on the server side, like it's trying to connect back to my
> >display.
> >
> >Process id: 3 >> ERROR: In
> >/build/src/ParaView-08.25.08/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
> >line 1478
> >vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xb62160): bad X server connection.
> >DISPLAY=hpc-cluster-l7:10.0
> >
>
> I ran pvbatch everyday on a parallel server without graphics and I can
> confirm it works fine. My trick was to comment out line 1478 of the file
> above. It does not complain anymore and it runs just fine.
>
>  //vtkErrorMacro(<< "bad X server connection. DISPLAY=" <<
> vtksys::SystemTools::GetEnv("DISPLAY") << "\n");
>
> sounds like a candidate for cleanup before a 3.4 official release...
>
> --
> Jean
> Swiss National Supercomputing Center
>