[Paraview] headless paraview installation

[Cagatay Bilgin]

Using the latest ParaView solved the problem.
We were using 3.12 before. There were quite
a few hacks that we had to do to get things working.

It is a joy to watch once things start rolling :)

Cagatay

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Sebastien Jourdain <
sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:

> I've posted it on the mailing list, but as I followed the thread,
> Goodwin end-up being in the to: and not you...
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sebastien Jourdain <sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com>
> Date: Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] headless paraview installation
> To: Goodwin Lawlor <goodwin.lawlor.lists at gmail.com>
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> the WebGL export need to be requested by the client. Is the issue
> happening with the sample applications or with a custom one ?
> Do you know if switching back to another render just work or as
> Goodwin suggested a segfault occurred ?
> You can look at the log files in the working.dir/logs/pw-xxxx.log
>
> Moreover, which version of ParaView are you using ? 3.14.1 ?
>
> Seb
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Goodwin Lawlor
> <goodwin.lawlor.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Cagatay,
> >
> > What version of PVW are you using?
> >
> > I installed PVW on a headless AWS server last Aug and WebGL rendering
> > wouldn't work because of a bug
> > in  vtkPVSynchronizedRenderWindows::GetIsInCave()
> >
> > To fix the bug, just replace the method body with "return false;"
> >
> > I would think that the bug has been fixed in a release version since then
> > though.
> >
> > Goodwin
> >
> > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Cagatay Bilgin <bilgincc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> We are interested in using paraviewweb in
> >> our lab and integrate it with the segmentation
> >> tools we are developing.
> >>
> >> We were able to install and use paraviewweb on my
> >> local machine. All the examples, shuttle, service etc
> >> worked as expected.
> >>
> >> Our second installation was on a server without X.
> >> The installation went fine but webgl does not
> >> seem to work for this installation however JS, Java, Flex are
> >> all working. Could this be related to the graphics card of
> >> the machine ? I am not a paraview or GL expert but if
> >> paraview is doing server side rendering and the graphics
> >> card is not compatible for webgl, then this would be a
> >> problem I guess ?
> >>
> >> Any clues are greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Cagatay
> >>
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