[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: ParaView is hanging Mac when closing

[Scott, W Alan]

I will ask regarding hardware. 

We tried running ParaView from the terminal, and it does NOT hang.  No warnings at all.  I was totally surprised.

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 11:15 AM
> To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> Cc: paraview-developers at paraview.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview-developers] ParaView is hanging Mac
> when closing
> 
> Alan,
> 
> What kind of Mac hardware does you user have? Also, what happened when
> you ran via the terminal? Does it still hang? Does it produce any output?
> 
> Next, if the issue is reproducible when you run via terminal, then try running
> via lldb (even for the release build) and where it hangs, Ctrl-C and let's see if
> the stack can point where it's hanging.
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
> > Utkarsh,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a user that is seeing a strange hang with PV 5.3.0, and his
> > Mac.  He is dealing with a different issue (probably a bad sideset on
> > a large dataset), which is crashing the ParaView server.  At this
> > point, ParaView client dies (not unexpected).  However, ParaView
> > continues to appear running.  If you right click on ParaView on the
> > doc, and you say close, ParaView disappears.  Terminal/ ps -ef does
> > not show ParaView.  But, it remains in the doc, with the little dot below
> saying it is running.
> >
> >
> >
> > At this point, my user can’t start up another ParaView instance and
> > connect remotely, since the port appears to be tied up.  The only
> > option is to reboot.  But, the mac won’t reboot!  It is hanging on the
> ParaView process
> > that is still coming down.   So, we are having to power cycle the Mac.
> >
> >
> >
> > I cannot replicate this on my macbook pro, thus am not writing up a bug
> > (yet).    When we tried running ParaView from a terminal window, no
> warning
> > messages were seen, and ParaView closed correctly.
> >
> >
> >
> > User’s OS is: 10.11.6 (El Capitan)
> >
> > My OS is: 10.11.6 (El Capitan)
> >
> >
> >
> > My user has two AMD FirePro D300 graphics cards.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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