[Paraview] Something wrong with Ubuntu 10.10 -> compared with Ubuntu 10.04

Wed Jan 19 13:10:47 EST 2011

Hi all,

Thanks for your suggestions. Looks like it is an issue with ubuntu 
10.10, so I think I'll file it in as bug report. Just to show that I'm 
not the only one, I found this post with exactly the same problem by 
"Ken" on Nov. 24th:

http://www.mail-archive.com/paraview@paraview.org/msg10168.html

So now I want to tell ubuntu that they should please fix it - I'm not 
clever enough to do it myself (I think however I can use kitware 
binaries, if necessary). The only thing is, that I've never filed in bug 
reports to ubuntu before so I'm not quite sure I know where to do it. 
Maybe somebody on this list knows what to do? I found these pages:

https://launchpad.net/~techboard
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Thanks again for your help (I'll still read here, if anyone has any 
further good suggestions - if I don't receive any answers, I think I'll 
just try to write to somebody on the above two links)...

On 2011-01-19 15:18, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Okay that explains it. I am not sure how the ubuntu mainter built the
> 3.8.0 binary. I just tried the binaries available on ParaView website
> for 3.8.0 and there are no issues. I am guessing he somehow has
> brought in a more recent servermanager.py than 3.8.0.
>
> Solution would be to either use kitware binaries
> (http://paraview.org/files/v3.8/), or locate and edit servermanager.py
> manually to remove the offending line or wait for the next release.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Mr. M<newsboost at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Yes - the installed paraview is 100% a standard-package binary version
>> installed through the graphical package manager that ships with ubuntu 10.10
>> - I didn't build it myself, so there's no compile-options that could cause
>> this problem...
>>
>> To David: "So this is a package installed ParaView then"? Yes it is...
>> (sorry I answered before but my email program came up with error message
>> about the mailserver and after trying a couple of times, the mailprogram
>> crashed and refused to send you the answer, so here's the answer - and I
>> hope the mail-program will not complain this time...
>>
>> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>> I doubt it's ubuntu related. This is stop ParaView 3.8.0 or did you
>>> build it yourself?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Mr. M<newsboost at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for your suggestion.
>>>>
>>>> pvpython outputs exactly the same errors message as with
>>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/paraview python
>>>>
>>>> The error appears only the first time I try to load/import the module.
>>>> Despite the error message, the module seems to be loaded. However, if I
>>>> run:
>>>>
>>>> servermanager.vtkSMObject.GetProxyManager().GetProxyDefinitionsUpdated()
>>>>
>>>> I received:
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
>>>> AttributeError: GetProxyDefinitionsUpdated
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas? Isn't this a bug (or is it ubuntu-related)?
>>>>
>>>> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If you simply run pvpython executable and import paraview, does that
>>>>> work?
>>>>>
>>>>> Utkarsh
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Mr. M<newsboost at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry, no - I'm sure that there's only one version of paraview
>>>>>> installed
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> the machine has a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 installation...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you have multiple versions of paraview  installed by any chance?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM, newsboost guy<newsboost at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi David:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - thanks for LD_LIBRARY_PATH-suggestion
>>>>>>>> - I also found this suggestion on google and tried it earlier,
>>>>>>>> however
>>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>> still didn't / doesn't work (slightly different message):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---------------
>>>>>>>> $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/paraview python
>>>>>>>> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56)
>>>>>>>> [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
>>>>>>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>>>>>>>> information.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> from sys import path
>>>>>>>>>>> path.append('/usr/lib/paraview')
>>>>>>>>>>> from paraview.simple import *
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> paraview version 3.8.0, Date: 2010-03-26
>>>>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>>>>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/paraview/servermanager.py", line
>>>>>>>> 2922,
>>>>>>>> in _proxyDefinitionsUpdated
>>>>>>>>   if vtkSMObject.GetProxyManager().GetProxyDefinitionsUpdated():
>>>>>>>> AttributeError: GetProxyDefinitionsUpdated
>>>>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>>>>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/paraview/servermanager.py", line
>>>>>>>> 2922,
>>>>>>>> in _proxyDefinitionsUpdated
>>>>>>>>   if vtkSMObject.GetProxyManager().GetProxyDefinitionsUpdated():
>>>>>>>> AttributeError: GetProxyDefinitionsUpdated
>>>>>>>> ---------------
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any other clever ideas, please?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2011-01-18 20:49, David Partyka wrote: If you add
>>>>>>>> /usr/lib/paraview
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH does it work?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mr. M.<newsboost at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Dear all
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Please bear over with me, but I've tried to google for the following
>>>>>>>>> error
>>>>>>>>> messages and have seen that other people have the same problem as me
>>>>>>>>> (but
>>>>>>>>> the threads have been unanswered). I hope somebody can help me avoid
>>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>>> error:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -------------------
>>>>>>>>> $ python
>>>>>>>>> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56)
>>>>>>>>> [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
>>>>>>>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>>>>>>>>> information.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> from sys import path
>>>>>>>>>>>> path.append('/usr/lib/paraview')
>>>>>>>>>>>> from paraview.simple import *
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>>>>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
>>>>>>>>>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/paraview/simple.py", line 39, in
>>>>>>>>> <module>
>>>>>>>>>   import servermanager
>>>>>>>>>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/paraview/servermanager.py", line
>>>>>>>>> 43,
>>>>>>>>> in<module>
>>>>>>>>>   import paraview, re, os, new, sys, vtk
>>>>>>>>>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/paraview/vtk/__init__.py", line
>>>>>>>>> 4,
>>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>>> <module>
>>>>>>>>>   from libvtkCommonPython import *
>>>>>>>>> ImportError: libvtkCommonPythonD.so.pv3.8: cannot open shared object
>>>>>>>>> file:
>>>>>>>>> No such file or directory
>>>>>>>>>     -------------------
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> But it's not true - I've have the file it's looking for:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> martin at MEK-404-MFJO-01:~$ locate libvtkCommonPythonD.so
>>>>>>>>> /usr/lib/paraview/libvtkCommonPythonD.so
>>>>>>>>> /usr/lib/paraview/libvtkCommonPythonD.so.pv3.8
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ???
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I know somebody who's running Ubuntu 10.04 and doesn't have this
>>>>>>>>> problem
>>>>>>>>> so I think the problem is related to something that has changed
>>>>>>>>> between
>>>>>>>>> these two versions...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Please advice - any suggestions are most welcome...
>>>>>>>>>
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