[Paraview] Data selection with tiled-display

[Christoph Willing]

We have paraview 3.8.0. running in a tiled display (20x pvserver  
instances to make a 4x5 display). In general, everything works as  
expected. However while working through the tutorial  
(ParaViewTutorial38.pdf) I found that exercise 2.18 (selection of  
cells or points with the mouse) causes all the pvserver instances to  
crash. There's no informative error message, just something along the  
lines that failure of rank #n caused a shutdown.

This seems to be a problem only in tiled display mode. If I change to  
client/server mode with just a single pvserver (either remote or  
localhost), the data selection works fine. Its a problem only in tiled  
display mode. All other tutorial exercises work fine.


Could anyone confirm that the data selection functionality as per the  
tutorial is (or isn't) working for them with paraview 3.8.0 on a tiled  
display please?


chris


P.S. I'm running SLackware 13.0 with mpich2-1.2.1p1 and  
paraview-3.8.0. The display cluster consists of 5 machines, each  
driving 4x 1920x1200 LCD's i.e. 4x pvserver instances per machine



Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8316
QCIF Access Grid Manager
University of Queensland