[Paraview] Standalone vs client-server mandelbrot source

[Patricia Fasel]

Hi all,

I have written a custom paraview reader which populates a 3D  
vtkImageData and one of my users tried it with a 3D problem where the  
second dimension was of size = 1.   When I tried this with standalone  
ParaView_3.4.0 it seemed to work correctly by making a 2D image in  
the lower window of a split screen while the upper window left  
blank.  When I tried this with a client-server 3.4.0 paraview crashes  
saying

ERROR: In /Users/paraview/ParaView-3.4.0/VTK/Filtering/ 
vtkExecutive.cxx, line 757
vtkUpdateSuppressorPipeline (0x38f20e70): Algorithm  
vtkPVUpdateSuppressor(0x38f202d0) returned failure for request:  
vtkInformation (0x38f1fdd0)
   Debug: Off
   Modified Time: 123285
   Reference Count: 1
   Registered Events: (none)
   Request: REQUEST_DATA_OBJECT
   FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
   ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1




ERROR: In /Users/paraview/ParaView-3.4.0/Servers/Filters/ 
vtkImageSliceMapper.cxx, line 109
vtkImageSliceMapper (0x899fa00): Mapper has no vtkImageData input.



I was advised to try the Source->Mandelbrot because my reader should  
operate the same way, but I find that mandelbrot runs with standalone  
but crashes the same way with client-server.

Is this a paraview problem and if so, is there a workaround so that I  
can try to get my custom reader fixed?

Thanks.

Pat Fasel
Los Alamos National Laboratory