[Paraview] pvbatch offscreen rendering problems

Dave Partyka dave.partyka at kitware.com
Wed Apr 7 15:02:19 EDT 2010 

It is now in the branch as well.

/cvsroot/ParaView3/ParaView3/Servers/ServerManager/vtkSMChartViewProxy.cxx,v
 <--  Servers/ServerManager/vtkSMChartViewProxy.cxx
new revision: 1.8.2.1; previous revision: 1.8

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
> wrote:

> 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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