[Paraview] Memory problem in Contour-Filter?

[Bernhard Gschaider]

>>>>> On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:11:12 -0500
>>>>> "BG" == Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:

    BG> I am afraid the answer is

    >> - "That's an interesting one. Could you send us the
    >> pvd/vtp-file, but we don't commit to fixing it" I've got a 3MB
    >> pvd from the filter that can reproduce the problem

I thought so and therefore already opened a bug (with a vtp-file):

http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8667

Let me know if you need any further information

Bernhard

    BG> -berk

    BG> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Bernhard Gschaider
    BG> <bgschaid_lists at ice-sf.at> wrote:
    >> Hi!
    >> 
    >> I know that this is a bit like diagnosing a brain tumor using a
    >> passport picture, but I'd be grateful about any help.
    >> 
    >> I'm currently using Paraview 3.4. Using a programmable source I
    >> constructed a polyMesh (basically a number of particle
    >> trajectories).
    >> 
    >> The trajectories are displayed alright, and work with most
    >> filters (Tube, Slice etc) but when I apply the Contour-Filter
    >> it crashes (not always but more often than not). The funny
    >> thing is that when I apply the Clean-filter with large
    >> tolerances it works, but the problem is that the result is so
    >> coarse that it doesn't resemble the original. With finer
    >> tolerances the filter crashes again.
    >> 
    >> The traceback that I usually get (I added a clipped version
    >> below) leads me to the conclusion that some memory is returned
    >> twice inside the vtkContourFilter.
    >> 
    >> Answers that would help me would be:
    >> 
    >> - "That's an old one. It's already fixed one in the CVS" The
    >> point is  I don't want to fuzz around with the CVS if there
    >> isn't a slim  chance that it will work
    >> 
    >> - "Have you tried filter X to clean up the data" Using the
    >>  Clean-filter produces unsatisfactory results
    >> 
    >> - "That's an interesting one. Could you send us the
    >> pvd/vtp-file, but  we don't commit to fixing it" I've got a 3MB
    >> pvd from the filter  that can reproduce the problem
    >> 
    >> Bernhard
    >> 
    >> *** glibc detected ***
    >> /.autonfs/Programs/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView-3.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/lib/paraview-3.4/paraview-real:
    >> double free or corruption (!prev): 0x000000001cbb8f30 ***
    >> ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3213871834]
    >> /lib64/libc.so.6(cfree+0x8c)[0x3213874e7c]
    >> /.autonfs/Programs/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView-3.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/lib/paraview-3.4/libvtkCommon.so.pv3.4(_ZN20vtkDataArrayTemplateIdE11DeleteArrayEv+0x4d)[0x2ba8b7f7b88d]
    >> /.autonfs/Programs/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView-3.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/lib/paraview-3.4/libvtkCommon.so.pv3.4(_ZN20vtkDataArrayTemplateIdED2Ev+0x29)[0x2ba8b7f7e779]
    >> /.autonfs/Programs/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView-3.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/lib/paraview-3.4/libvtkCommon.so.pv3.4(_ZN14vtkDoubleArrayD0Ev+0x17)[0x2ba8b7f7ae17]
    >> /.autonfs/Programs/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView-3.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/lib/paraview-3.4/libvtkCommon.so.pv3.4(_ZN9vtkObject18UnRegisterInternalEP13vtkObjectBasei+0x5c)[0x2ba8b7fdda2c]
    >> /.autonfs/Programs/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView-3.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/lib/paraview-3.4/libvtkGraphics.so.pv3.4(_ZN16vtkContourFilter11RequestDataEP14vtkInformationPP20vtkInformationVectorS3_+0x56d)[0x2ba8b42e121d]
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