[Paraview] running pvserver on OS X 10.6.2 from a remote client

[Berk Geveci]

Thanks for the solution :-)

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Takuya OSHIMA
<oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a hard time trying to run pvserver on OS X 10.6.2 from a remote
> client with the system OpenMPI. At the very moment I was about to hit
> "Send" for the following email asking for help, somehow I found a
> solution. :) In case it is of any help to someone else, I am sending
> the mail as-is anyway, but with the solution, which is to add
> --no-daemonize to the mpirun command line.
>
>> mpirun --no-daemonize --hostfile hostfile -np 2 pvserver
>
> -----
> I am having a hard time trying to run pvserver (built from 3.7-cvs of
> around a week ago) on an OS X 10.6.2 box from a remote OS X 10.6.2
> client using the system OpenMPI.
>
> First, when pvservers are launched locally with mpirun from the
> console on the server and connected from the client, everything works
> perfectly. Next, I launch pvservers on the server from the client
> using OpenMPI with mpirun
>
>> mpirun --hostfile hostfile -np 2 pvserver
>
> (where hostfile contains the hostname of the server) the ParaView
> client can connect to the server. Further, I was able to open a small
> case and see its (locally rendered) visualization.
>
> However, as soon as I apply a filter that generates complex geometry
> (e.g. Glyph) and the rendering switches to the server, the pvservers
> crash leaving the following error message.
>
> pvserver[7023] <Error>: kCGErrorRangeCheck: On-demand launch of the Window Server is allowed for root user only.
> pvserver[7023] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
> pvserver[7024] <Error>: kCGErrorRangeCheck: On-demand launch of the Window Server is allowed for root user only.
> pvserver[7024] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
> (backtrace follows)
>
> I googled for "kCGErrorRangeCheck: On-demand launch of ..." but found
> no useful info. Is anyone successful in this usage scenario? If so,
> how?
>
> Thanks,
> Takuya
>
> Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
> Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
> 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
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