[Paraview] pvserver : cannot connect to X server

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Ah! Nice catch. QApplication needed to be initialized by the
SMApplication for chart proxies when using them through
pvpython/pvbatch.
Attached is patch. Let me know if that fixes the issue? I'll commit it tomorrow.

Utkarsh

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Paul Edwards <paul.m.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Utkarsh,
>
> The X display is being opened when the QApplication is created in
> vtkQtInitialization constructor.  You added this call to vtkSMApplication
> last month although the code is inside ifdefs for VTK_USE_QVTK.  I couldn't
> see any cmake build option for this (unless it is VTK_USE_QVTK_QTOPENGL).
>
> My current workaround is just to remove these calls and it seems to work....
> - but I'm guessing you put it in there for a reason ;)
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
> On 28 January 2010 16:46, Paul Edwards <paul.m.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've just run into the same problem (CVS updated at earlier in the week)
>> and I cannot run pvserver without a X display.  It means I can't run it on
>> my cluster (not even when using OSMesa and the --use-offscreen-rendering
>> option....)
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 28 January 2010 12:57, Pierre-Olivier Dallaire
>> <pierre-olivier.dallaire at videotron.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well it does not solve my problem ...
>>>
>>> I never had this behaviour before / connecting with X was not necessary.
>>> This problem started this week / last week cvs was fine.
>>>
>>> Any idea why it's causing that ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> PO
>>>
>>> On 2010-01-27, at 2:43 PM, Pierre-Olivier Dallaire wrote:
>>>
>>> > I never used the the -X option when connecting with ssh on the server
>>> > in order to initialize pvserver.
>>> >
>>> > I think now the solution is to use the -X but start pvserver with
>>> > option "-dc"
>>> >
>>> > PO
>>> > On 2010-01-27, at 2:35 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Are you sure the display is accessible on the server machine? What
>>> >> happens when you open something like gvim?
>>> >>
>>> >> Utkarsh
>>> >>
>>> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Pierre-Olivier Dallaire
>>> >> <pierre-olivier.dallaire at videotron.ca> wrote:
>>> >>> Hi,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> when trying to start pvserver on the my ParaView server linux
>>> >>> machine, I'm getting this new
>>> >>> error with the latest cvs version, error that I never had before :
>>> >>>
>>> >>> pvserver
>>> >>> : cannot connect to X server
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks!
>>> >>>
>>> >>> PO
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