[Paraview] Crash using openmpi with more than 4 processes

[burlen]

Also, make sure you PV configuration uses the opengl and osmesa from 
your build. To make it easy I always run ccmake the first time with 
these options on the command line:

-DVTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA=ON 
-DOPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR=/u/burlen/apps/Mesa-7.5.1-Intel/include 
-DOPENGL_gl_LIBRARY=/u/burlen/apps/Mesa-7.5.1-Intel/lib64/libGL.so 
-DOPENGL_glu_LIBRARY=/u/burlen/apps/Mesa-7.5.1-Intel/lib64/libGLU.so 
-DOPENGL_xmesa_INCLUDE_DIR=/u/burlen/apps/Mesa-7.5.1-Intel/include 
-DOSMESA_INCLUDE_DIR=/u/burlen/apps/Mesa-7.5.1-Intel/include 
-DOSMESA_LIBRARY=/u/burlen/apps/Mesa-7.5.1-Intel/lib64/libOSMesa.so

that mitigates some of the configuration pain.

burlen wrote:
>>
>> Getting the exact same OSMesa setup as someone who has this working 
>> on many processors could help to confirm this.
>
> A possibility is that when run on the compute nodes open gl libraries 
> other than the one you expect are used. That can cause a strange 
> crash. I have seen it before. If you're not doing it, prepend your 
> mesa path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH before you launch pvserver.
>
> I always used OSMesa configured with mesa configs. eg. "make linux", 
> installed in my home directory, as long as I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH I 
> never have had any troubles.
>
> Hope it helps
>