[Paraview] pvbatch offscreen rendering problems

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

That sounds fishy, let me take a look. I'll get back to you.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Carrie E. Spear (Cont, CISD/ARL)
<carrie.spear at arl.army.mil> wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
> I am currently having issues with paraview-3.8.0 and paraview-3.9.0 when
> trying to use pvbatch and offscreen rendering. When I run with my DISPLAY
> variable set, I don't have any issues, when the DISPLAY variable is not set
> it fails with the "cannot connect to X server error". I have built paraview
> with the following flags to support the offscreen rendering capabilities:
>
> OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR
> OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY
> OPENGL_glu_LIBRARY
> OPENGL_xmesa_INCLUDE_DIR
> OSMESA_INCLUDE_DIR
> OSMESA_LIBRARY
> VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA=ON
> VTK_USE_OFFSCREEN=ON
> VTK_USE_DISPLAY=OFF
>
> I have built paraview-3.6.2 with these flags and the pvbatch offscreen
> rendering works perfectly without the DISPLAY variable being set, the same
> does not work for 3.8.0 and 3.9.0. Am I missing a new flag for these
> packages? The mesa version I am using is 7.0.4.
>
> The pvbatch command I am running is:
> mpirun -np 4 pvbatch --use-offscreen-rendering testParallelRender.py
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Carrie
>
> --
> Carrie Spear
> Software Engineer
> Lockheed Martin / Army DoD Supercomputing Resource Center
> Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005
> Phone:   410-278-9976
> Email: carrie.spear at us.army.mil
>
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