[Paraview] pvbatch offscreen rendering problems

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Carrie,

I just tried it with CVS ParaView and I could not reproduce it. Can
you reproduce this when running on a single node? Try running ldd on
pvbatch, is it getting the right OpenGL libraries?

Utkarsh

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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