Thanks Sebastien. It seems I'm getting somewhere - I installed "slim" instead of xdm, and had the paraview user login automatically. Now when I login via ssh, I can see the X server is running, and the paraview user has the ~/.Xauthority file created in its homedir (so I guess it did login successfuly). The DISPLAY variable is still unset, but I get a new error if I set it manually:

[paraview@vbl-sim ~] $ DISPLAY=:0 glxinfo
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyError: unable to open display :0

and the same error for any X program (so I can't run i.e. "xhost +" recommended somewhere). This situation persists through restarts. I trie ro remove the ~/.Xauthority file as recommended elsewhere, but that didn't help either.

(I also tried a second method - starting the launcher through .xinitrc, but it seems slim ignores this file altogether. That's a different problem anyways, as for testing it would be more comfortable if I could launch the server form command line)


Jiri



On 05/05/16 16:23, Sebastien Jourdain wrote:
You were on the right track with DISPLAY=:0 but I'm wondering if you setup a "virtual" monitor or if your "paraview" user is auto logged in a X session or if it stuck at the "login" panel?

You can find some information about the virtual screen here: (Search for 
"Screen")

http://kitware.github.io/paraviewweb/docs/guides/graphics_on_ec2_g2.html

And for the autologin if it is needed. (Note on EC2 the user start X hence no 
need to login...)

https://github.com/Kitware/paraviewweb/blob/master/tools/ansible/roles/paraview/tasks/Ubuntu.yml

Seb

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Jiří Vyskočil <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Hello,


    I'm trying to set up a Paraview Web server on a Fedora 23 machine. The 
serves is not connected
    to a monitor or a keyboard (I only have access through ssh), but it has a 
nvidia GPU which I
    want to use for paraview.


    I have installed xdm to run the X server, and verified that it is in fact 
running with the
    correct nvidia drivers (by checking the Xorg.0.log file). The problem is I 
don't know how to
    run the paraview webserver on the X display when there's no one physically 
logged in - I can
    only get to the server via ssh. When I log in, and switch to the paraview 
user, the DISPLAY
    and XAUTHORITY variables are empty.


    The webserver itself is running (apache + the python launcher), but when I 
try to open any of
    the example applications, I get an error like this:


    $ ./launch-paraview.sh
    2016-05-05 14:54:17,528:INFO:twisted:Site starting on 9000
    2016-05-05 14:54:17,528:INFO:twisted:Starting factory 
<twisted.web.server.Site instance at
    0x7fe20da6a998>
    2016-05-05 14:55:09,655:INFO:twisted:"127.0.0.1" - - [05/May/2016:12:55:09 
+0000] "POST
    /paraview/ HTTP/1.1" 503 78 "https://vbl-sim.eli-beams.eu/apps/Visualizer/"; 
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11;
    Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0"


    $ cat 965318f2-12c0-11e6-a3cb-002590e6af35.txt
    2016-05-05 14:55:06+0200 [-] Log opened.
    ERROR: In
    
/home/strazce/hax/ParaView-v5.0.0-source/VTK/Rendering/OpenGL/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
 line 333
    vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x3f00be0): bad X server connection. DISPLAY=


    Specifying DISPLAY=:0 when running the launcher gives this error:

    $ cat e73921bc-12c0-11e6-b002-002590e6af35.txt
    2016-05-05 14:57:22+0200 [-] Log opened.
    No protocol specified
    No protocol specified
    No protocol specified
    ERROR: In
    
/home/strazce/hax/ParaView-v5.0.0-source/VTK/Rendering/OpenGL/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
 line 333
    vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x4127c10): bad X server connection. DISPLAY=:0. 
Aborting.



    Thanks for any hints,

    Jiri




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