[Paraview] Paraview 3.8 RC2 makes the whole X restart

Fri May 14 07:47:51 EDT 2010

On Thursday, I was debugging an issue between 3.6.2, 3.8.0RC2 and the 
3.9.0 development tree.    My version of Paraview built against the GL 
libraries (not Mesa) and the command "pvbatch --use-offscreen-rendering" 
worked using 3.6.2 and 3.9.0, but failed against 3.8.0RC1 and RC2.    
There were a couple of error messages pointing to the GL libraries, so I 
upgraded my nVidia driver, and the problem went away.  Does it make 
sense - no.   But, sometimes, you just go with whatever works ......

Josef Dubsky wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Ok, so this is what I found in the Xorg.0.log file:
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x71) [0x488931]
> 1: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x30748302d0]
> 2:
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so(_swrast_depth_test_span+0x6b
> f) [0x2afe58a0b1bf]
> 3:
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so(_swrast_write_rgba_span+0x5b
> e) [0x2afe589ee69e]
> 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so [0x2afe589f1d2c]
> 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so [0x2afe58a1c13f]
> 6: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so [0x2afe58a1ffda]
> 7: 
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so(_tnl_run_pipeline+0x12b)
> [0x2afe58a38feb]
> 8:
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so(_tnl_playback_vertex_list+0x
> 1e4) [0x2afe58a20834]
> 9: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so [0x2afe589a0707]
> 10: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so(_mesa_CallList+0x47)
> [0x2afe589a3117]
> 11: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so(__glXRender+0xd7)
> [0x2afe4e7ed7e7]
> 12: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so [0x2afe4e7f2008]
> 13: /usr/bin/Xorg(Dispatch+0x1ca) [0x44b20a]
> 14: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x44e) [0x43351e]
> 15: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x307481d994]
> 16: /usr/bin/Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x229) [0x4327f9]
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
>
>
>
> So you think it might be GL problem after all? I don't have much 
> experience
> with that. The strange thing is it really never happens with the 3.6.2
> version.
> The bad thing for me is, that I cannot really experiment with the 
> driver, as
> I'm using VMware. (I fully aware of the fact that I lose on 
> performance, but
> the flexibility that VMware offers me is more valuable in my situation and
> also my models are really small).
>
>
> Josef
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul McIntosh [mailto:paul.mcintosh at internetscooter.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:53 AM
> To: 'Josef Dubsky'; 'Rick Angelini'
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: RE: [Paraview] Paraview 3.8 RC2 makes the whole X restart
>
> You might find some clues in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old
>
> As far has glx, I'd still update/downgrade the OpenGL driver even just to
> rule that out.
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josef Dubsky [mailto:josef.dubsky at gcsc.uni-frankfurt.de]
> Sent: Friday, 14 May 2010 7:24 PM
> To: 'Paul McIntosh'; 'Rick Angelini'
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: RE: [Paraview] Paraview 3.8 RC2 makes the whole X restart
>
> Well, I can confirm the problem doesn't occur with 3.6.2 (using the
> precompiled vision, downloaded directly from the web). However the 3.8 RC2
> (also the precompiled version from the web) does crash after some time
> exactly as the 3.7CVS does.
> So I think this shouldn't be a glx issue, right?
>
> Josef
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul McIntosh [mailto:paul.mcintosh at internetscooter.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 12:58 AM
> To: 'Rick Angelini'; 'Josef Dubsky'
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: RE: [Paraview] Paraview 3.8 RC2 makes the whole X restart
>
> Another thought - just try the precompiled RC2 binaries and see what the
> difference is.
>
> I also agree with checking the driver, the last issue I had was caused by
> this (an upgrade fixed it).
>
> For the list - are there any debug options that make ParaView 
> print/log what
> it is doing? E.g. export DEBUG_INFO=TRUE
>
> There seems to be a few instances like this where something goes wrong and
> there is no information. Even if there isn't ParaView should make use 
> of the
> QStatusBar to give some hints.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Angelini [mailto:rick.angelini at us.army.mil]
> Sent: Thursday, 13 May 2010 10:39 PM
> To: Josef Dubsky
> Cc: 'Paul McIntosh'; paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Paraview 3.8 RC2 makes the whole X restart
>
> Any chance you have a GL driver issue? Was your driver updated recently?
> Can you *still* run 3.6.2 without problems?
>
> Josef Dubsky wrote:
> >
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > Thanks for your hint, but I do have enough disk space (~10 GB). I've
> > already tried to look in /var/log/ but didn't really find anything
> > suspicious.
> >
> > The strange thing is that it never happened with 3.6.2 or 3.6.1. The
> > problem started to appear as of 3.7 (which I compiled from source) and
> > remains also for 3.8 RC2 too
> >
> > Josef
> >
> > *From:* Paul McIntosh [mailto:paul.mcintosh at internetscooter.com]
> > *Sent:* Thursday, May 13, 2010 1:23 PM
> > *To:* 'Josef Dubsky'
> > *Subject:* RE: [Paraview] Paraview 3.8 RC2 makes the whole X restart
> >
> > A thought - do you have enough disk space? I am using 3.8 RC1/2 on
> > Centos 5.5 with no issues. However I have noticed that if you run out
> > of disk space, you get no warning and the session just crashes. Maybe
> > ParaView is generating some file (swap?) that pushes your system to
> > the limit of disk.
> >
> > I am not sure how to debug ParaView (yet) so I don't know if there is
> > anything in the /var/log directory to look for.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> >
> > *From:* paraview-bounces at paraview.org
> > [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *Josef Dubsky
> > *Sent:* Thursday, 13 May 2010 8:37 PM
> > *To:* paraview at paraview.org
> > *Subject:* [Paraview] Paraview 3.8 RC2 makes the whole X restart
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have the following problem with Paraview 3.8 RC2. Actually the
> > problem already appeared with the version 3.7 which I built from
> > source. However, as it was a development version, I thought there
> > might be still some bugs. But the 3.8 RC2 which I've installed just
> > today behaves the same.
> >
> > So the problem is the following: After a few minutes (can really reach
> > from ~30 seconds to ~20 minutes) of working with Paraview suddenly my
> > whole Linux session restarts and I have to login again. Of course by
> > this I lose all the opened applications (not just Paraview), which is
> > pretty bad.
> >
> > There's no real way, how to exactly reproduce the problem. I mean the
> > time when the crash occurs seems more or less random. But after max
> > ~30 mins of working with Paraview, you can be almost sure it crashes.
> >
> > The only thing I can say is, that if I just leave Paraview minimized
> > and do something else, the crash doesn't occur. Thus it really happens
> > only if you actively do something in Paraview.
> >
> > I'm using CentOS 5.5.
> >
> > Are there any logs or error messages you could help to analyze the
> > situation more? I'm not sure where I could find something relevant.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Josef
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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