[Paraview] ParaView 5 Crashes on macOS (Sierra)

[Cory Quammen]

Zach,

Thanks for trying it out! I'm glad to hear it is fixed.

To my knowledge, ParaView does not read Gmsh files directly. Apparently,
you can save out VTK files from Gmsh that can be read into ParaView:

https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam-meshing-open/139538-rendering-gmsh-files-paraview.html

Cory

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Zach Davis <zdavis at pointwise.com> wrote:

> Hi Cory,
>
> This build works for me.  I don’t have the crashing issue as before.  On a
> completely unrelated note since I’m replying to the entire mailing list, is
> there a way to view mesh files in the Gmsh format using ParaView?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> [image: Pointwise, Inc.]
> Zach Davis
> Pointwise®, Inc.
> Sr. Engineer, Sales & Marketing
> 213 South Jennings Avenue
> Fort Worth, TX 76104-1107
>
> *E*: zach.davis at pointwise.com
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> *F*: (817) 377-2799
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>
> On Apr 3, 2017, at 2:07 PM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Zach,
>
> Would you mind trying this nightly build of ParaView?
>
> http://www.paraview.org/paraview-downloads/download.
> php?submit=Download&version=nightly&type=all&os=all&
> downloadFile=ParaView-5.3.0-219-g24f5a44-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-OSX10.8-64bit.dmg
>
> I recently merged a change that should hopefully fix this crash.
>
> Thanks,
> Cory
>
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Zach,
>>
>> Thanks for the information.
>>
>> I mounted an SMB volume on my machine and did not get a crash when
>> opening a file in ParaView 5.3.0. That leaves NFS as causing some unhandled
>> condition in the code pointed out by your error report.
>>
>> I'll file a bug report and investigate for 5.4.0.
>>
>> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17310
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cory
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Zach Davis <zdavis at pointwise.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Cory,
>>>
>>> I have three SMB volumes and one NFS volume mounted at
>>> /Users/zdavis/Shares using Autofs.  As an aside, I have been able to revert
>>> to using ParaView 4.4.0, but obviously don’t want to be stuck on this
>>> version forever if it can be avoided.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> [image: Pointwise, Inc.]
>>> Zach Davis
>>> Pointwise®, Inc.
>>> Sr. Engineer, Sales & Marketing
>>> 213 South Jennings Avenue
>>> Fort Worth, TX 76104-1107
>>>
>>> *E*: zach.davis at pointwise.com
>>> *P*: (817) 377-2807 x1202 <(817)%20377-2807>
>>> *F*: (817) 377-2799
>>> <https://www.twitter.com/RcktMan78> <https://www.youtube.com/cfdmeshing>
>>> <https://www.facebook.com/pointwise> <https://www.github.com/pointwise>
>>>
>>> On Mar 21, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Zach,
>>>
>>> Someone else on this mailing list recently reported a similar crash. Do
>>> you have any unusual file systems mounted on the Mac in question? That will
>>> help debug the problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Cory
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Zach Davis <zdavis at pointwise.com> w
>>> rote:
>>>
>>>> Tuesday, 21 March 2017
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> I’ve been having issues with ParaView version 5 builds since their
>>>> release.  I’ve tried each new release as its announced, but run into the
>>>> same issue.  The application can be opened, but anytime I attempt to open a
>>>> file the application crashes before even displaying the Open/Save dialog
>>>> window.  The termination signal is a Segmentation fault of type 11.  I’ve
>>>> attached the crash report for anyone more knowledgeable about what the
>>>> issue is.  Has anyone else experienced this issue?  Is there a workaround?
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [image: Pointwise, Inc.]
>>>> Zach Davis
>>>> Pointwise®, Inc.
>>>> Sr. Engineer, Sales & Marketing
>>>> 213 South Jennings Avenue
>>>> Fort Worth, TX 76104-1107
>>>>
>>>> *E*: zach.davis at pointwise.com
>>>> *P*: (817) 377-2807 x1202 <(817)%20377-2807>
>>>> *F*: (817) 377-2799
>>>> <https://www.twitter.com/RcktMan78>
>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/cfdmeshing>
>>>> <https://www.facebook.com/pointwise>
>>>> <https://www.github.com/pointwise>
>>>>
>>>> enc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Cory Quammen
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>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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