Hello, I get the following error when I try to run a script with pvpython on a virtual machine (Ubuntu 16.04): ERROR: In /build/paraview-arsa8T/paraview-5.0.1+dfsg1/VTK/Rendering/OpenGL/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 333 vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x3acfad0): bad X server connection. DISPLAY=Aborte…

An X server is required for all ParaView packages except the osmesa package, even if offscreen rendering is used and no window is opened. This is because most OpenGL applications on linux still depend on X to draw anything, even if no window appears. There is a binary available here , but it will di…

What is the script doing that is causing a window to be required? It’d probably be easier to have a GUI-less ParaView build (no Qt) or to have it built to prefer offscreen rendering instead so it doesn’t need X at all.

If you don’t want to install an X server, you can use a binary of ParaView built against osmesa. We are going to produce official release binaries built against osmesa starting with ParaView 5.6. Using this build does away with the need for an X server. Our nightly builds for this package are down …

Thank you very much for your answers. I did not know that it was possible to run paraview without any X server. I will try to build my own version with osmesa. As I did not write the script myself, I cannot tell if opening a window is required in my case because I only used Paraview GUI by the pas…

Thank you very much. I will download it now and try to use it to see if it solves my problem.

It works fine. Thank you very much for your precious help!

Fantastic, I am glad it is working.

By the way, the ParaView 5.6.0 build with osmesa is now available at www.paraview.org/download .

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pvpython: bad X server connection

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