[Paraview] Segmentation fault in protobuf

[u.utku.turuncoglu at be.itu.edu.tr]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your help. The server is Scientific Linux release 7.3
(Nitrogen) and yes i install PV from source using NVIDIA EGL libraries. In
this case, I set USE_X OFF and also QT_GUI OFF. I tried both Intel (2017)
and gcc and result is same. I also installed PV 5.4.1RC4 and still same.
It is very annoying, the same setup is working in an other system which
has Centos and Intel 2014.

Regards,

--ufuk

> On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 21:44:41 +0300, u.utku.turuncoglu at be.itu.edu.tr
> wrote:
>> I am trying to install a code with support ParaView, Catalyst (version
>> 5.3) to a new system. In this case, the code crash (seg. fault) at the
>> beginning without giving any valuable hint about the problem. If I run
>> the
>> code under gdb I am getting following error messages,
>>
>> ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> 0x00007fffce45aee7 in _GLOBAL__sub_I_wire_format_lite.cc ()
>>    from
>> /home/ext-dell-guest1/rds/hpc-work/progs/paraview-5.3.0/egl/lib/libprotobuf.so
>>
>> It seems that the error triggered by paraview, protobuf component. I
>> used
>> both Intel and gcc compiler and both of them has same error. I also try
>> to
>> set VTK_USE_SYSTEM_PROTOBUF = ON but in this case I am getting bunch of
>> error related with protobuf library. I also tried to compile my own
>
> Care to paste these?
>
>> protobuf library but ParaView complains about the version and I think
>> that
>> ParaView is compatible with version 2.5 but I installed 3.0. It is weird
>> but I could able to run CFullExample without any problem. At this point
>> I
>> need your suggestion. Is there anybody faced similar problem? Do you
>> think
>> that upgrading 5.4 will help?
>
> Are you on Ubuntu? What version? Did you compile this ParaView yourself?
>
> --Ben
>