[Paraview] Segmentation fault when launching Paraview

[Dan Mazur]

Hello,

I have placed the CMakeCache.txt file online in case it helps with
debugging:
http://pastebin.com/McaX1773

-Dan


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Dan Mazur <dan.mazur at clumeq.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have compiled Paraview v4.1.0 from source on CentOS-6.3.  It is my first
> time compiling any version of Paraview from source. The configuration,
> compilation, and installation all proceed without errors according to the
> installation documentation. However, I am having trouble launching the
> bin/paraview binary. I find that I get a segmentation fault shortly after
> issuing the paraview command, before anything else happens.
>
> The backtrace from the core dump is:
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x000000320807efe1 in strcat () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #1  0x00000000004018f5 in vtksys_shared_forward_to_real (argc=1,
> argv_in=0x7fff51113898) at
> $PARAVIEW/VTK/Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/SharedForward.h:837
> #2  0x0000000000401b88 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff51113898) at
> $PARAVIEW/Applications/ParaView/paraview-forward.c:28
>
> I have not found a solution to this problem from searching the Mailing
> list or Google, but I did find an unresolved case that appears to be the
> same issue:
>
> https://hpcforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=98&group_id=34&atid=217
>
> When I run 'make test', I find that many of the tests fail (37% tests
> passed, 668 tests failed out of 1061). Apparently, the application hasn't
> built properly. However, I am not sure what has gone wrong or how to
> diagnose the problem from the log files. I have tried rebuilding the
> application with the same settings, but got the same results.
>
> I appreciate any guidance/assistance that can be offered. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> -Dan
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