[Paraview] Segmentation fault in protobuf

[Ben Boeckel]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 21:44:41 +0300, u.utku.turuncoglu at be.itu.edu.tr wrote:
> I am trying to install a code with support ParaView, Catalyst (version
> 5.3) to a new system. In this case, the code crash (seg. fault) at the
> beginning without giving any valuable hint about the problem. If I run the
> code under gdb I am getting following error messages,
> 
> ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007fffce45aee7 in _GLOBAL__sub_I_wire_format_lite.cc ()
>    from
> /home/ext-dell-guest1/rds/hpc-work/progs/paraview-5.3.0/egl/lib/libprotobuf.so
> 
> It seems that the error triggered by paraview, protobuf component. I used
> both Intel and gcc compiler and both of them has same error. I also try to
> set VTK_USE_SYSTEM_PROTOBUF = ON but in this case I am getting bunch of
> error related with protobuf library. I also tried to compile my own

Care to paste these?

> protobuf library but ParaView complains about the version and I think that
> ParaView is compatible with version 2.5 but I installed 3.0. It is weird
> but I could able to run CFullExample without any problem. At this point I
> need your suggestion. Is there anybody faced similar problem? Do you think
> that upgrading 5.4 will help?

Are you on Ubuntu? What version? Did you compile this ParaView yourself?

--Ben