[Paraview] How to debug Paraview

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

I am guessing you are rendering on the client side. Go to Edit|Settings 
dialog. Then on the "Server" tab enable  "Remote Render Threshold" and 
change it to 0. Now, rendering will happen on the server side and you 
should see your volume correctly rendered. Delivering volume data to 
client and volume rendering is not supported.

Utkarsh

Weiguang Guan wrote:
> One more problems remains --- volume rendering doesn't work. I can only 
> see the outline of the volume when switching to "volume" in 
> Representation in the Display tab. Is this because IceT only supports 
> sort-last image compositing, which can not handle opacity?
> 
> Weiguang
> 
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> 
>> Actually, I think the answer is no.  If you want to see the image in 
>> the GUI window, then the answer is no.  Get rid of the -tdx and -tdy 
>> flags.
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Weiguang Guan [mailto:guanw at rhpcs.mcmaster.ca]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:54 AM
>>> To: Moreland, Kenneth
>>> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
>>> Subject: RE: [Paraview] How to debug Paraview
>>>
>>> I think the answer to your question is YES. I am running Paraview on 
>>> HP's
>>> SVA cluster. The paraview client (paraview) is running on one of the
>>> display nodes of the cluster.
>>>
>>> I lauch paraview through a script called sva_paraview.sh, which does job
>>> scheduling, allocating nodes, starting X servers besides mpirun-ing
>>> pvserver-s.
>>>
>>> Weiguang
>>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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