[Paraview] Segmentation fault when launching Paraview

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Are you running from the build directory or install directory? Can you
you try running from the build direactory first to see if that works?


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Dan Mazur <dan.mazur at clumeq.ca> wrote:
> 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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