[Paraview] Running pvserver 3.14.1 under OS X 10.6 and 10.7

[David Gobbi]

Hi All,

I'm having trouble getting pvserver to run on OS X.  If I run just a
single instance of pvserver everything works fine and I'm able to
connect ParaView to it.  But if I do this:

mpirun -np 4 /path/to/pvserver

then all the pvserver processes spin their wheels, taking up 100% of
the CPU, and if I try to connect ParaView, then ParaView freezes until
the pvserver processes are killed.  A stack trace of the pvserver
processes yields the following:

#0  0x00007fff87c77e46 in swtch_pri ()
#1  0x00007fff87d5301f in sched_yield ()
#2  0x000000010f755ab5 in mca_pml_ob1_recv ()
#3  0x00000001091beca8 in MPI_Recv ()
#4  0x0000000102c13f35 in vtkMPICommunicator::ReceiveDataInternal
(this=0x7fff5fbff2a0, data=0x7fff5fbff2a0 "??_?", length=512,
sizeoftype=1606414376, remoteProcessId=-1, tag=1606414672,
info=0x7fff5fbff1c8, useCopy=0, senderId=@0x10f001958) at
vtkMPICommunicator.cxx:269
#5  0x0000000102c13ad8 in vtkMPICommunicator::ReceiveVoidArray
(this=0x7fff5fbff220, data=0x7fff5fbff2a0, maxlength=512,
type=1606414880, remoteProcessId=1606414880, tag=1606414880) at
vtkMPICommunicator.cxx:856
#6  0x0000000102b2c696 in vtkCommunicator::Receive () at
/Users/dgobbi/Work/Kitware/paraview-git/VTK/Parallel/vtkCommunicator.h:544
#7  0x0000000102b2c696 in vtkMultiProcessController::ProcessRMIs
(this=0x10f000240, reportErrors=1606415568, dont_loop=0) at
vtkMultiProcessController.cxx:544
#8  0x0000000102b2cbed in vtkMultiProcessController::ProcessRMIs
(this=0x10f001900) at vtkMultiProcessController.cxx:531
#9  0x0000000100015b5b in RealMain [inlined] () at
/Users/dgobbi/Work/Kitware/paraview-git/CommandLineExecutables/pvserver_common.h:81
#10 0x0000000100015b5b in main (argc=251664640,
argv=0x5fbff29000000001) at pvserver_common.h:21

This occurs on OS X 10.6 and OS X 10.7.  This is with ParaView 3.14.1,
using the system MPI that is located in /usr/lib, and compiled with
RelWithDebInfo.  The client and server are on the same machine, and
are part of the same build.

I might be missing some important step, because this is the first time
that I've tried running ParaView in client/server mode.  Any help is
appreciated.

 - David