[Paraview] pvbatch and X server

[Tilaye Yismaw Alemu]

Thank you very much, Ken and Kent for your help. I tried to follow your 
suggestions which brought other problems, not a paraview bug though. But 
I did manage to find the problem, which is GLX not being (properly?) 
loaded. Even running "glxinfo" made the X server crash. Poking around I 
found out that starting firefox first does the job. Perhaps firefox is 
smart enough to load GLX...not sure whats going on but works for me.

Cheers,
Tilaye Y. Alemu
Applications Developer
EPCC, JCMB, Mayfield Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ
Mobile: +44 (0)7796824299
Email: talemu at epcc.ed.ac.uk

Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> Instructions for compiling ParaView with OSMesa, which allows you to use pvbatch without an X server are available on the Wiki:
> 
>   http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server#OSMesa_support
> 
> Note that if you upgrade (and I suggest you do if you can) that there is a major shift in the scripting.  ParaView moved from Tcl scripting to Python scripting.  This means your current script won't work with ParaView 3.2.1.  Unfortunately, ParaView does not currently have the ability to write out a script to get to its current state, although it is fairly easy to write a few lines of script to load a state file.  Either way, you will need to review the ParaView scripting document, which is also posted to the Wiki.
> 
>   http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/images/f/f9/Servermanager2.pdf
> 
> -Ken
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
>> On Behalf Of Kent Eschenberg
>> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:19 AM
>> To: Tilaye Y Alemu
>> Cc: 'Greg Katsaros'; paraview at paraview.org
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] pvbatch and X server
>>
>> I have no problems running pvbatch on a system with no X server. I link
>> paraview to Mesa and use off screen rendering. You are using a very, very
>> old
>> version of Paraview (2.4). You need to upgrade to 3.2.1.
>>
>> Kent
>> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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