[Paraview] Bug 0006714: pvbatch requires X server

[Kent Eschenberg]

That fixed it! The updated pvbatch just ran on our Linux cluster with 4 nodes and 32 processors.

Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Kent/Iain,
> 
> Here's another patch (the earlier patch had a typo--my bad)
> 
> Make sure you follows these steps:
> 
> * Update ParaView to current CVS head. The patch is against the CVS 
> head. There are a few fixes/changes in the CVS that affect the behaviour.
> 
> * Then apply the patch
> 
> * Ensure that paraview is built with OS mesa
> 
> * Use the command line option "--use-offscreen-rendering". This option 
> must be specified before the python script name is provided as follows:
>  > ./bin/pvbatch --use-offscreen-rendering test.py