[Paraview] Segmentation fault when starting ParaView

[Andy Bauer]

Glad to hear you're up and running again. Also, glad that you figured out
that saying to use --dr didn't mess you up more. It should have been -dr.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Martin Reitzle <
martin.reitzle at itlr.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> thanks for your swift reply. Disabling the PV config file resulted in
> another error:
> vtkEventQtSlotConnect (0x1a18b10): Cannot connect NULL objects.
>
> However, your remark set me on the right track. The problem was an old
> PV_PLUGIN_PATH variable which pointed to python plugins that I built for a
> different PV version. A simple $ export PV_PLUGIN_PATH="" did the trick.
> Thanks again!
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
> Am 02.12.2016 um 14:59 schrieb Andy Bauer:
>
> This sounds like maybe something with your PV config. Try running with the
> --dr flag to disable reading in your config file.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> On Dec 2, 2016 5:38 AM, "Martin Reitzle" <martin.reitzle at itlr.uni-
> stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am running into a strange issue and hope someone can help me:
>>
>> I'm compiling ParaView 5.2.0 locally on my openSuse 13.1 system (gcc).
>> Configuring and compiling works just fine. However, as soon as is try to
>> execute ParaView, I immediately end up with a segmentation fault.
>>
>> Running ParaView with gdb shows that the error is somewhere in vtk. I
>> attached the backtrace below.
>> So I started asking around and no one I know ran into this error.
>> Therefore, I started experimenting and set up a virtual box with openSuse
>> 13.1. The strange thing now is, that everything works just fine in the
>> virtual environment. No warnings, no seg faults.
>>
>> I'm grateful for any help you can offer.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> Backtrace of debugger:
>>
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> 0x00002aaaacb745b1 in vtkInitializationHelper::LoadSettings ()
>>     at /home/mre/Software/paraview/ParaView-v5.2.0/ParaViewCore/Ser
>> verManager/SMApplication/vtkInitializationHelper.cxx:317
>> 317       vtkPVOptions* options = vtkProcessModule::GetProcessModule()->GetOptions();
>>
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0x00002aaaacb745b1 in vtkInitializationHelper::LoadSettings ()
>>     at /home/mre/Software/paraview/ParaView-v5.2.0/ParaViewCore/Ser
>> verManager/SMApplication/vtkInitializationHelper.cxx:317
>> #1  0x00002aaaacb74120 in vtkInitializationHelper::Initialize (argc=1,
>> argv=0x7fffffffd3f8, type=0,
>>     options=0x85e420)
>>     at /home/mre/Software/paraview/ParaView-v5.2.0/ParaViewCore/Ser
>> verManager/SMApplication/vtkInitializationHelper.cxx:240
>> #2  0x00002aaaac4bff89 in pqApplicationCore::pqApplicationCore
>> (this=0x85fab0,
>>     argc=@0x7fffffffcf64: 1, argv=0x7fffffffd3f8, options=0x85e420,
>> parentObject=0x0)
>>     at /home/mre/Software/paraview/ParaView-v5.2.0/Qt/Core/pqApplic
>> ationCore.cxx:128
>> #3  0x00002aaaaade644b in pqPVApplicationCore::pqPVApplicationCore
>> (this=0x85fab0,
>>     argc=@0x7fffffffcf64: 1, argv=0x7fffffffd3f8, options=0x0)
>>     at /home/mre/Software/paraview/ParaView-v5.2.0/Qt/ApplicationCo
>> mponents/pqPVApplicationCore.cxx:66
>> #4  0x000000000040ae85 in pqparaviewInitializer::Initialize
>> (this=0x7fffffffd280, argc=1,
>>     argv=0x7fffffffd3f8)
>>     at /home/mre/Software/paraview/ParaView-v5.2.0_build/Applicatio
>> ns/ParaView/pqparaviewInitializer.cxx:77
>> #5  0x000000000040ab49 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffd3f8)
>>     at /home/mre/Software/paraview/ParaView-v5.2.0_build/Applicatio
>> ns/ParaView/paraview_main.cxx:115
>>
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