I currently have paraview 3.98.1 installed on a CentOS 6.2 cluster.  The head 
node has X installed, but the compute nodes do not.  I have built Paraview with 
the OSMesa, but cannot seem to get it to work on this server.  I have a Debian 
system with the same 3.98.1 installation built with OSMesa, and have no 
problems.

I have tried running with mpi and also just a single instance, and am using 
pvserver, with a 3.98.1 client on my windows machine.  I can make the 
connection on my client, and open a file.  As soon as I attempt to view the 
file, in every incantation I get similar error messages:

Waiting for client...
Connection URL: cs://hpc.fsl.orst.edu:11111
Accepting connection(s): hpc.fsl.orst.edu:11111
Client connected.
ERROR: In 
/usr/local/src/ParaView-3.98.1-source/VTK/Rendering/OpenGL/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
 line 383
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x1ebf3c0): Could not find a decent visual

[Further message, included in attached file]

Based on information from the paraview wiki, I was under the impression that I 
should be able to use: pvserver -use-offscreen-rendering to force it to ignore 
any X connections, but so far, I have had no luck.  The compute nodes do not 
have X installed at all, and so I tried the reverse connection on the client, 
with the -use-offscreen-rendering and -ch -rc options, with the same results.  
Am I misunderstanding the use of OSMesa and -use-offscreen-rendering?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Terralyn Vandetta
College of Forestry
Oregon State University

Attachment: pvserver.log
Description: pvserver.log

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