[Paraview] segmentation fault

[Peter Brady]

I don't mean to flood the list but after some investigation it appears
that the PNGWriter is the ONLY image writer that leads to a seg fault.
 All the others work fine.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Peter Brady <petertbrady at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to install paraview such that I can do remote rendering
> through python scripting without the time consuming difficulty of
> having the render window pop up.  I've compiled mesa with osmesa
> support inorder to take advantage of the --use-offscreen-rendering
> option.
>
> Everything compiled correctly and things start running but when I try
> to write the image I get a segmentation fault.  I started paraview
> under gdb and found the source of the segmentation fault when trying
> to save an image:
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00002aaab7c31f2a in vtkPNGWriter::WriteSlice ()
>   from /opt/paraview-mpi/lib/paraview-3.4/libvtkIO.so.pv3.4
> Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install
> e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.4-4.fc10.x86_64 expat-2.0.1-5.x86_64
> keyutils-libs-1.2-3.fc9.x86_64 krb5-libs-1.6.3-18.fc10.x86_64
> libXau-1.0.4-1.fc10.x86_64 libXdmcp-1.0.2-6.fc10.x86_64
> libXt-1.0.5-1.fc10.x86_64 libgcc-4.3.2-7.x86_64
> libselinux-2.0.78-1.fc10.x86_64 libstdc++-4.3.2-7.x86_64
> libxcb-1.1.91-5.fc10.x86_64 ncurses-libs-5.6-20.20080927.fc10.x86_64
> python-libs-2.5.2-1.fc10.x86_64 qt-x11-4.4.3-15.fc10.x86_64
> readline-5.2-13.fc9.x86_64
>
> I'm using paraview 3.4 and mesa 7.4 on fedora 10.  Any ideas as to
> what's causing this and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter.
>