[Paraview] Upgrade of GPU drivers

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Those are errors reported when paraVIew cannot connect to the Xserver.
Try any other tool that needs X, e.g. gvim, glxgears, all will fail
the same way. See this:
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server#X_Connections

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Sangeetha Banavathi Srinivasa
<bsangee at vt.edu> wrote:
> But after a recent upgrade of the GPU drivers on our cluster we are seeing
> the below error:
>
> bad X server connection. DISPLAY=ERROR:
>
> This is seen on ParaView/4.0.1.
>
> We have two different clusters that are supporting this version of ParaView
> and GPU drivers on both these clusters were updated.
> ParaView/4.0.1 is running fine on the first cluster whereas it is throwing
> the above error on the other.
> But on the first cluster all the compilers were recompiled after the GPU
> driver update but this wasn’t done on the second one.
> So I was wondering what change could have actually caused the above error.
>
>
> On Jun 2, 2016, at 4:26 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
> No, you don't need to recompile ParaView.
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Sangeetha Banavathi Srinivasa
> <bsangee at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to know if ParaView should be recompiled on HPC clusters after
> upgrading GPU drivers?
>
> Thanks,
> Sangeetha
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