[Paraview] How to debug Paraview

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Why do you have the -tdx and -tdy flags?  Are you driving a remote display?

-Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Weiguang Guan [mailto:guanw at rhpcs.mcmaster.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:22 AM
> To: Moreland, Kenneth
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] How to debug Paraview
>
> Hi Kenneth,
>
> I appreciate your time very much. I attach two screen shots --- generated
> by using 1 and 4 pvserver-s respectively.
>
> What I did are:
> (1) On node ic-rb18, "paraview --server=ic-rb1" is issued;
> (2) mpirun -f abc, where file abc has the contents shown below
> -h ic-rb1 -np 1 -e
> PATH=.:/home/guanw/visualization/software/install/bin:/opt/sva/chromium/bi
> n/Linux:/opt/sharcnet/par
> aview/bin:/opt/sharcnet/compile/bin:/opt/hptc/bin:/opt/hptc/lsf/top/6.2/li
> nux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-slurm/etc:/opt/hptc/l
> sf/top/6.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-
> slurm/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/
> opt/hpmp
> i/bin:/opt/sharcnet/pathscale/current/bin:/opt/sharcnet/pgi/pgi-
> 6.1/linux86-64/6.1/bin:/opt/sharcnet/sq/bin:/opt/sva/b
> in: -e DISPLAY=:0 pvserver -rc --client-host=ic-rb18 -tdx=1 -tdy=1
> -h ic-rb10 -np 1 -e
> PATH=.:/home/guanw/visualization/software/install/bin:/opt/sva/chromium/bi
> n/Linux:/opt/sharcnet/pa
> raview/bin:/opt/sharcnet/compile/bin:/opt/hptc/bin:/opt/hptc/lsf/top/6.2/l
> inux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-slurm/etc:/opt/hptc/
> lsf/top/6.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-
> slurm/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/
> opt/hpm
> pi/bin:/opt/sharcnet/pathscale/current/bin:/opt/sharcnet/pgi/pgi-
> 6.1/linux86-64/6.1/bin:/opt/sharcnet/sq/bin:/opt/sva/
> bin: -e DISPLAY=:0 pvserver -rc --client-host=ic-rb18 -tdx=1 -tdy=1
> -h ic-rb11 -np 1 -e
> PATH=.:/home/guanw/visualization/software/install/bin:/opt/sva/chromium/bi
> n/Linux:/opt/sharcnet/pa
> raview/bin:/opt/sharcnet/compile/bin:/opt/hptc/bin:/opt/hptc/lsf/top/6.2/l
> inux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-slurm/etc:/opt/hptc/
> lsf/top/6.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-
> slurm/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/
> opt/hpm
> pi/bin:/opt/sharcnet/pathscale/current/bin:/opt/sharcnet/pgi/pgi-
> 6.1/linux86-64/6.1/bin:/opt/sharcnet/sq/bin:/opt/sva/
> bin: -e DISPLAY=:0 pvserver -rc --client-host=ic-rb18 -tdx=1 -tdy=1
> -h ic-rb12 -np 1 -e
> PATH=.:/home/guanw/visualization/software/install/bin:/opt/sva/chromium/bi
> n/Linux:/opt/sharcnet/pa
> raview/bin:/opt/sharcnet/compile/bin:/opt/hptc/bin:/opt/hptc/lsf/top/6.2/l
> inux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-slurm/etc:/opt/hptc/
> lsf/top/6.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-
> slurm/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/
> opt/hpm
> pi/bin:/opt/sharcnet/pathscale/current/bin:/opt/sharcnet/pgi/pgi-
> 6.1/linux86-64/6.1/bin:/opt/sharcnet/sq/bin:/opt/sva/
> bin: -e DISPLAY=:0 pvserver -rc --client-host=ic-rb18 -tdx=1 -tdy=1
>
> I notice, in step (1) paraview --server=ic-rb1, there is a redundance of
> using the --server as I use --client-host for pvserver. But if I don't use
> --server for paraview, the connection can not be established.
>
> Weiguang
>
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
>
> > Can you post a screen shot?  That might help identify the problem.
> >
> > -Ken
> >
> >
> > On 3/11/08 3:59 PM, "Weiguang Guan" <guanw at rhpcs.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> >
> > I have tried to run paraview not in mpirun. Although it doesn't solve
> the
> > problem, at least it gets rid of the error message "MPI Application rank
> 0
> > exited before MPI_Init() with status 0".
> >
> > Weiguang
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> >
> >> Are you running the paraview application in mpirun?  You shouldn't.
> >> The server, pvserver, is an MPI application but the client, paraview,
> is
> > not.
> >>
> >> -Ken
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3/11/08 1:11 PM, "Weiguang Guan" <guanw at rhpcs.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I have run into a weird problem with Paraview and can not get a
> solution
> >> from the mailing list. Does anyone know how to debug Paraview? Does
> >> Paraview spit out log file?
> >>
> >> The problem I have is missing polygon from rendering when paraview run
> in
> >> client/server mode. This problem happens even if I run one pvserver.
> >>
> >> No abnormal message has been seen until we exit Paraview --- "MPI
> >> Application rank 0 exited before MPI_Init() with status 0"
> >>
> >> Weiguang
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