[Paraview] pvbatch offscreen rendering problems

Wed Apr 7 14:43:28 EDT 2010

Looks like the patch should resolve this issue. I've committed it to
CVS. Let me know if that doesn't work. We'll commit it to 3.8 branch
soon.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> Rick/ Carrie,
>
> My paraview is still building and will be a while before I can try
> this out. But attached is a patch that I think will solve this issue.
> Can you try it out?
>
> Thanks
> Utkarsh
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> I was writing a response when it struck me, are you building with
>> PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI ON? That's possible the only difference between
>> your build and mine. I am going to turn on PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI and
>> try to reproduce the problem.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Rick Angelini <rick.angelini at us.army.mil> wrote:
>>> So, we're really stumped.
>>>
>>> - Paraview (pvbatch) 3.6.2 works exactly as we'd expect.
>>> - pvbatch 3.8.0/3.9.0 fail with the "can't open display" error.  If we set a
>>> display variable, pvbatch works, but that's not really a solution.
>>> - All three are using the same exact Mesa library and use the same CMakeInit
>>> file during the build.  - We've also built by hand (without a CMakeInit
>>> file) and get the same error.
>>> - See the same display error when running pvbatch serially
>>>
>>> Not really sure where to turn.
>>>
>>> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That's exactly what I am doing as well ("unset DISPLAY"  that is), and
>>>> seems to work well. Is this a debug build. Can you track down where
>>>> the error message is coming from? I am not sure where this error
>>>> message is coming from since it doesn't look like a paraview message
>>>> and a quick "grep" didn't yield any result. When paraview spews a
>>>> display error, it looks something as follows:
>>>>
>>>> Process id: 0 >> ERROR: In
>>>>
>>>> /home/utkarsh/Kitware/ParaView3/ParaView3/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
>>>> line 542
>>>> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x3be47e0): bad X server connection.
>>>> DISPLAY=Process id: 0 >> ERROR: In
>>>>
>>>> /home/utkarsh/Kitware/ParaView3/ParaView3/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
>>>> line 344
>>>> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x3be47e0): bad X server connection.
>>>> DISPLAY=p0_29057:
>>>>
>>>> Also make sure that OSMESA_INCLUDE_DIR, and OSMESA_LIBRARY are set
>>>> correctly. Just for consistency sake, set the following to default
>>>> values:
>>>> VTK_USE_OFFSCREEN=OFF
>>>> VTK_USE_DISPLAY=ON
>>>>
>>>> These need not be changed at all for using OS mesa in ParaView.
>>>>
>>>> Utkarsh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Carrie E. Spear (Cont, CISD/ARL)
>>>> <carrie.spear at arl.army.mil> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Utkarsh,
>>>>>
>>>>> When I do an ldd pvbatch appears to be using the correct libraries GL
>>>>> libraries (I am building agains mesa-7.0.4, could it be that my version
>>>>> of
>>>>> mesa is too old). I ran the following test:
>>>>>
>>>>> bash-3.2$ echo $DISPLAY
>>>>> :0.0
>>>>> bash-3.2$ unset DISPLAY
>>>>> bash-3.2$ echo $DISPLAY
>>>>>
>>>>> bash-3.2$ mpirun -np 4 pvbatch --use-offscreen-rendering
>>>>> testParallelRender.py
>>>>> : cannot connect to X server
>>>>>
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> mpirun has exited due to process rank 0 with PID 4770 on
>>>>> node ls08270-l.arl.army.mil exiting without calling "finalize". This may
>>>>> have caused other processes in the application to be
>>>>> terminated by signals sent by mpirun (as reported here).
>>>>>
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> When I have DISPLAY set it works perfectly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Carrie
>>>>>
>>>>> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 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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