Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 448514
paraview crashes with segmentation fault upon start
Last modified: 2008-05-27 11:49:20 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080416 Fedora/2.0.0.14-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.14 Description of problem: I recently installed paraview to try it out. Unfortunately, upon start it crashes with a Segmentation fault. From dmesg: paraview[16682]: segfault at 0 rip 2aaabba72aae rsp 7fffb3e38d80 error 4 I have generated a strace file using: strace -o paraview.trace paraview I did this because long ago someone said to do this with another program. And, well, I don't know gdb. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): paraview-3.2.1-3.fc8.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run paraview 2. 3. Actual Results: Segmentation fault Expected Results: Paraview should run and not crash. Additional info: My smolt information is: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_39b3535b-b6a4-4256-b19d-0bc9e79c7107
Created attachment 306762 [details] strace output for paraview This output generated by: > strace -o paraview.trace paraview
And, because I'm an idiot, I have also tried this in various ways. The above is when I just run paraview without calling pvserver. Maybe the Fedora version cannot do this? (I've never installed and setup Paraview myself, so perhaps I missed a configuration step.) But, in case pvserver must be started explicitly, I started pvserver in various ways. I tried: pvserver pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering mpirun -np 4 /usr/bin/pvserver mpirun -np 4 /usr/bin/pvserver Now, I note that I actually have MPICH on this box, and so I'm more interested in a "non-parallel" version just for my own learning use (since MPICH + OpenMPI can be...fun). But I thought I'd try anyway. Also, I have tried the server commands above as both root and my local user.
Can you post "lspci | grep -F VGA"? Are you using the ATI binary X drivers? Anything showing up in /var/log/Xorg.0.log when you run paraview?
Also, please run paraview under gdb: gdb paraview run then post the output of "bt" after it crashes. Thanks!
(In reply to comment #3) > Can you post "lspci | grep -F VGA"? Are you using the ATI binary X drivers? > Anything showing up in /var/log/Xorg.0.log when you run paraview? Yes, I do run the Livna ATI binary drivers. And, I remember upgrading them at some point this morning. So, I did a reboot and voila, paraview now works! Guess I'm still not used to rebooting with Linux...on Windows, this would have been no problem. Apologies for the inconvience, and thanks for the quick reply. Closing.