[Paraview] Why is pvbatch displaying images?

[David E DeMarle]

Haven't seen that one. What does google say that that part of mesa is for?
I am guessing that it is for video/movies and if so it doesn't matter to us.


David E DeMarle
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Pradeep Jha <pradeep at ccs.engg.nagoya-u.ac.jp
> wrote:

> just wondering, when I was making OSMesa, it gave me the following message
> during "configure":
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Project MESSAGE: Disabling video due the lack of GLib/Gio/GStreamer
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  is it ok? Or do I need to do something about it?
>
>
> 2013/3/6 David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
>
>> See the cmake config settings for pure offscreen rendering configuration
>> of pvserver in:
>>
>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Parallel_Rendering#Offscreen_Software_Rendering_via_OSMesa
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Pradeep Jha <
>> pradeep at ccs.engg.nagoya-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>>
>>> I installed PV with OSMesa on a linux supercomputer. When I am running
>>> "pvbatch --use-offscreen-rendering script_file.py", I get the following
>>> error:
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> [fe02s01:15756] *** Process received signal ***
>>> [fe02s01:15756] Signal: Segmentation fault (11)
>>> [fe02s01:15756] Signal code:  (128)
>>> [fe02s01:15756] Failing at address: (nil)
>>> [fe02s01:15756] [ 0] /lib64/libpthread.so.0 [0x357320eca0]
>>> [fe02s01:15756] [ 1]
>>> /home/hp120242/k00603/local/HH-1298/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1(glGetString+0xe)
>>> [0x2b747e417cee]
>>> [fe02s01:15756] *** End of error message ***
>>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> What is going wrong? Is there any problem with the installation of my
>>> Paraview with OSMesa support? This pvbatch works fine without
>>> --use-offscreen-rendering option when I "ssh" with the "-X" option.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Pradeep
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/1/31 Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>
>>>
>>>> Yes, you don't need OSMesa when there is graphics hardware support. In
>>>> that case though it will still pop up a render window to create screen
>>>> shots. OSMesa can still be used even if you have graphics hardware support
>>>> and is currently the only way to get around having a window to render into.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Pradeep Jha <
>>>> pradeep at ccs.engg.nagoya-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> From the online resources I gathered that we need OSMesa only when
>>>>> there is no graphics hardware on the system. Ok, so I guess I need to
>>>>> install OSMesa and then compile Paraview again with OSMesa support?
>>>>>
>>>>> Please confirm.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2013/1/30 Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Pradeep,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you don't want the window to pop up you'll need to use offscreen
>>>>>> rendering with OSMesa. WriteAnimation() needs to create a window in order
>>>>>> to generate the image. It is the same with WriteImage().
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andy
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Pradeep Jha <
>>>>>> pradeep at ccs.engg.nagoya-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I made my first PV python script using "Start Trace" and "End
>>>>>>> Trace". Now I am trying to run this script using pvbatch hoping it will
>>>>>>> execute everything on the command line and not display any graphics. I
>>>>>>> deleted the Render() statement which was at the end of the python script
>>>>>>> generated by Trace (file attached with this email). But still it keeps
>>>>>>> generating the image window and fails when I ssh without X option.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have attached the script file. I am executing pvbatch by the
>>>>>>> command
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $pvbatch export_movie.py
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why is this happening?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>> Pradeep
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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