[Paraview] using pvbatch without X server

[Marzio Sala]

Hi Kent,

following your advice, I checked out the CVS version of ParaView,  
compiled, and now pvbatch works with OSMesa and without X server.  
Thanks!

-Marzio

On May 27, 2008, at 8:36 PM, Kent Eschenberg wrote:

> Hi Marzio,
>
> I am doing exactly what you want but had to switch to the CVS  
> version. Kitware has fixed the problems in that version.
>
> With it you will see warnings about it being unable to find an X  
> server but it will still work. I ran pvbatch in parallel to generate  
> over 2,000 frames for a movie, saving the images as PNG files.
>
> Kent
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>
> Marzio Sala wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am using ParaView, latest stable release 3.2.1, compiled on suse  
>> 64 bits. I wrote a python script with pvbatch to produce some  
>> images, and all works fine with the X server. (And the python  
>> interface is really nice and easy to use!)
>> Then, I compiled ParaView using MESA, since I'd like to use pvbatch  
>> without the X server. Unfortunately, pvbatch crashes while saving  
>> the image as JPEG. There was something on the mailing list: http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2008-April/007590.html 
>> , but it is not clear to me what to expect: is the bug fixed, or I  
>> am doing something wrong? Is it possible to use pvbatch with MESA  
>> and without an X server? Thanks for your help,
>> -Marzio