[Paraview] Segfault in ParaView 4.4 RC2

[Dorier, Matthieu]

Hi,

Indeed, disabling 3D acceleration makes ParaView work. I initially enabled it because when it's off, my Catalyst script gives me this:

OpenGL Warning: Failed to connect to host. Make sure 3D acceleration is enabled for this VM.

and the PNG image resulting from my script is just white (now that may be unrelated, maybe there is just a problem with my Catalyst adaptors...)

Also when running the simulation, I see a white-filled window briefly appearing an disappearing before this message shows up. This also happens when I run it through SSH (but I have to use the -X option in SSH, otherwise I get another error saying "bac X server connection").

Thank,

Matthieu

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From: Utkarsh Ayachit [utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 9:11 AM
To: Cory Quammen
Cc: Dorier, Matthieu; paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Segfault in ParaView 4.4 RC2

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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