[Paraview] Paraview segfaults on CentOS 7.2

[Ben Boeckel]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 14:38:08 -0600, Martin Cuma wrote:
> I have been having trouble running the release binary of Paraview on 
> relatively stock CentOS 7.2 using
> the OpenGL. It segfaults before it loads up the GUI window.. If I start 
> Paraview with the --mesa option,
> it works fine.
> 
> This happens with the 2.3 and 2.4 Paraview binaries, i.e. 
> ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit and
> ParaView-5.4.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit, as well as the latest build,
> ParaView-5.4.0-233-g9952b9f-Qt5-MPI-Linux-64bit.
> 
> The same executables start fine both in CentOS6, and in an Ubuntu 16.10 
> Singularity container that runs
> on the CentOS7 host.
> 
> Before I dig further, I am wondering what is the experience on running 
> Paraview on CentOS7.

The binaries are built in a CentOS 6 container, but CentOS 7 should
still work. Is there any other output? Can you get a backtrace from
running paraview under gdb?

--Ben