[Paraview] How to debug Paraview

[Weiguang Guan]

Problem solved. Thank you very much!

weiguang

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:

> 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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