rview window pop out black and exit

Hi,
    I am working on a school project on glare evaluation on irregular glass
surface. I am newbie in radiance.
when I tried the tutorial on scene0, first the render window pops up black
then exit automatically with "rview: cannot open command line window". X11
setting is correct since xclock can run successfully.

    I really don't how to proceed. any help is much appreciated.

Ren Wei
Regards

The name "rview" got taken over by a version of "vi", so the program was renamed to "rvu".

This is one for the FAQ, if we had such a thing...

-Greg

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From: ren wei <[email protected]>
Date: April 25, 2009 3:07:58 AM PDT

Hi,

    I am working on a school project on glare evaluation on irregular glass surface. I am newbie in radiance.
when I tried the tutorial on scene0, first the render window pops up black then exit automatically with "rview: cannot open command line window". X11 setting is correct since xclock can run successfully.

    I really don't how to proceed. any help is much appreciated.

Ren Wei
Regards

Thanks for your reply. I switch to rvu followed with original option. but it
hangs forever in xterm without any window shown. something wrong with my X
server?
Ren Wei
Regards

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On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Greg Ward <[email protected]> wrote:

The name "rview" got taken over by a version of "vi", so the program was
renamed to "rvu".

This is one for the FAQ, if we had such a thing...

-Greg

From: ren wei <[email protected]>

Date: April 25, 2009 3:07:58 AM PDT

Hi,

   I am working on a school project on glare evaluation on irregular glass
surface. I am newbie in radiance.
when I tried the tutorial on scene0, first the render window pops up black
then exit automatically with "rview: cannot open command line window". X11
setting is correct since xclock can run successfully.

   I really don't how to proceed. any help is much appreciated.

Ren Wei
Regards

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It's rather difficult to diagnose a problem when the only symptom is "nothing happens." What is the command line that hangs? What do you get when you type "echo $DISPLAY" ?

-Greg

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From: ren wei <[email protected]>
Date: April 25, 2009 10:29:22 AM PDT

Thanks for your reply. I switch to rvu followed with original option. but it hangs forever in xterm without any window shown. something wrong with my X server?

Ren Wei
Regards

sorry about non technical terms. $DISPLAY shows 127.0.0.1:0.0. I tried
xclock it works. then I type in
rvu -vp 2.25 .375 1 -vd -.25 .125 -.125 -av .5 .5 .5 test.oct

it hangs there. I can see rvu in process manager but cpu usage is zero. I
read command manual. should i add -o output device option?

Thanks a lot

Ren Wei
Regards

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On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Greg Ward <[email protected]> wrote:

It's rather difficult to diagnose a problem when the only symptom is
"nothing happens." What is the command line that hangs? What do you get
when you type "echo $DISPLAY" ?

-Greg

From: ren wei <[email protected]>

Date: April 25, 2009 10:29:22 AM PDT

Thanks for your reply. I switch to rvu followed with original option. but
it hangs forever in xterm without any window shown. something wrong with my
X server?

Ren Wei
Regards

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Hi Ren,

I see nothing wrong with your command that I can see. I would suspect something with your scene file, except if oconv ran OK then your scene must be alright. It does seem likely that something is wrong with the X11 connection, but it's impossible to debug from here with no error messages or symptoms. You can kill rvu with ^\ to get it to dump a core file (if enabled) and find out where it's stuck that way, but you have to know something about programming and your system configuration. I know the former but not the latter, and I don't have access to your machine. This is not a common problem. It's the first I've heard of it.

Anyone else have suggestions?

-Greg

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From: ren wei <[email protected]>
Date: April 25, 2009 11:00:50 AM PDT

sorry about non technical terms. $DISPLAY shows 127.0.0.1:0.0. I tried xclock it works. then I type in

rvu -vp 2.25 .375 1 -vd -.25 .125 -.125 -av .5 .5 .5 test.oct

it hangs there. I can see rvu in process manager but cpu usage is zero. I read command manual. should i add -o output device option?

Thanks a lot

Ren Wei
Regards

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Greg Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
It's rather difficult to diagnose a problem when the only symptom is "nothing happens." What is the command line that hangs? What do you get when you type "echo $DISPLAY" ?

-Greg

Hi Greg,
    now the problem is back to rvu: cannot open command line window. same
symptone as rview

Many thanks

Ren Wei
Regards

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On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Greg Ward <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Ren,

I see nothing wrong with your command that I can see. I would suspect
something with your scene file, except if oconv ran OK then your scene must
be alright. It does seem likely that something is wrong with the X11
connection, but it's impossible to debug from here with no error messages or
symptoms. You can kill rvu with ^\ to get it to dump a core file (if
enabled) and find out where it's stuck that way, but you have to know
something about programming and your system configuration. I know the
former but not the latter, and I don't have access to your machine. This is
not a common problem. It's the first I've heard of it.

Anyone else have suggestions?

-Greg

From: ren wei <[email protected]>

Date: April 25, 2009 11:00:50 AM PDT

sorry about non technical terms. $DISPLAY shows 127.0.0.1:0.0. I tried
xclock it works. then I type in

rvu -vp 2.25 .375 1 -vd -.25 .125 -.125 -av .5 .5 .5 test.oct

it hangs there. I can see rvu in process manager but cpu usage is zero. I
read command manual. should i add -o output device option?

Thanks a lot

Ren Wei
Regards

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Greg Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
It's rather difficult to diagnose a problem when the only symptom is
"nothing happens." What is the command line that hangs? What do you get
when you type "echo $DISPLAY" ?

-Greg

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Sounds like an incompatibility with the X11 server. This is the second such report we've seen this week, though the symptoms are different. Check the thread entitled "fatal XIO - newbie" to see if there are any useful hints there. Otherwise, we'll just have to wait to hear from others with more experience about similar problems. What is your exact system configuration? It could be something as simple as missing fonts.

-Greg

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From: ren wei <[email protected]>
Date: April 25, 2009 11:41:51 AM PDT

Hi Greg,

    now the problem is back to rvu: cannot open command line window. same symptone as rview

Many thanks

Ren Wei
Regards

  Otherwise, we'll just have to wait to hear from others with more
experience about similar problems. What is your exact system
configuration? It could be something as simple as missing fonts.

Are these problems appearing with downloaded binaries, with binaries
from a Linux distribution, or did you compile yourself?

Lars.

Hi Greg,
    it is indeed due to missing fonts. I install all the component under X11
package. it works fine so I can start exploring Radiance!

Ren Wei
Regards

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On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Greg Ward <[email protected]> wrote:

Sounds like an incompatibility with the X11 server. This is the second
such report we've seen this week, though the symptoms are different. Check
the thread entitled "fatal XIO - newbie" to see if there are any useful
hints there. Otherwise, we'll just have to wait to hear from others with
more experience about similar problems. What is your exact system
configuration? It could be something as simple as missing fonts.

-Greg

From: ren wei <[email protected]>

Date: April 25, 2009 11:41:51 AM PDT

Hi Greg,

   now the problem is back to rvu: cannot open command line window. same
symptone as rview

Many thanks

Ren Wei
Regards

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it is indeed due to missing fonts. I install all the component under
X11 package. it works fine so I can start exploring Radiance!

Hi,

can you still tell us what release you are working with? If you installed a binary release from a Linux distribution, and required fonts were not automatically installed, it should be reported as a dependency error to the package maintainer.

CU Lars.

Hi Lars,
       I am using binary release 3R9 for windows. I am using cygwin

Ren Wei
Regards

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Lars O. Grobe <[email protected]> wrote:

it is indeed due to missing fonts. I install all the component under

X11 package. it works fine so I can start exploring Radiance!

Hi,

can you still tell us what release you are working with? If you installed a
binary release from a Linux distribution, and required fonts were not
automatically installed, it should be reported as a dependency error to the
package maintainer.

CU Lars.

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