[Paraview] Segfault in ParaView 4.4 RC2

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

What Cory suggested may be it. I can't spot anything fishy in the
CMakeCache.txt. Also try running another OpenGL enabled app, eg.
glxgears to see if that works. I believe it's provided by the
`mesa-utils` package on Ubuntu.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Matthieu,
>
> My hunch is that there is a problem with the OpenGL provided by VirtualBox
> with 3D acceleration enabled. I have not found 3D acceleration to work well
> with my Ubuntu 140.04 installation, so I just disable it.
>
> Could you try disabling 3D acceleration and see if ParaView still crashes?
>
> Thanks,
> Cory
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Dorier, Matthieu <mdorier at anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I compiled ParaView 4.4 RC 2 from sources on Debian (Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64,
>> Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u3 x86_64), in order to try Catalyst, but I got
>> segmentation faults when Catalyst runs my python script. I initially thought
>> something was wrong with my script but then I realized ParaView also
>> creashes with the same segfault when I try to start it (I see the
>> splashscreen, and the interface appears, but then it immediately crashes).
>> The error reported is:
>>
>> *** glibc detected ***
>> /home/mdorier/local/paraview/lib/paraview-4.4/paraview: munmap_chunk():
>> invalid pointer: 0x00000000048e4970 ***
>>
>> And a backtrace follows (which I attach. I wanted to get more info using
>> the core dump but ParaView doesn't seem to have been compiled with -g so
>> there is no other info).
>>
>> Here is how I installed ParaView:
>>
>> My compiler is gcc 4.7.2. MPI is Mpich 3.1.3.
>>
>> I (apt-get) installed the packages:
>>
>> libphonon-dev libphonon4 qt4-dev-tools libqt4-core libqt4-gui qt4-qmake
>> libxt-dev g++ gcc cmake-curses-gui libqt4-opengl-dev mesa-common-dev
>> python-dev
>>
>> I then configured ParaView using ccmake; I attach the resulting
>> CMakeCache.txt. Basically Catalyst and Python are turned ON, MPI as well,
>> rendering backend is set to OpenGL.
>>
>> I'm running on a virtual machine using VirtualBox, 3d acceleration is
>> enabled, and
>> glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"
>> returns
>> OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 INTEL-10.6.31)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matthieu
>>
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