[Paraview] headless paraview installation

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Glad to hear that you solved your problem.

And please share your "hacks" if you think they could be useful to
other or if something can be improved in ParaViewWeb itself...

Thanks,

Seb

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Cagatay Bilgin <bilgincc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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