Can you try to reproduce with 3.98.1 from updates-testing?

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-2952/paraview-3.98.1-1.fc18

Exactly the same issue.

The same happens when I press "Edit color map", except that Resource id is then 0x1

Okay I got it. I tried to get a game running this afternoon and for some reason installed the AMD catalyst drivers. Now this one was called when rendering some Freetype stuff and it failed. This in turn triggered a chain reaction of X wanting to process this error which eventually got stuck. Installing debuginfo and running it through gdb gave me:

#0  0x00000032f104329b in _XReply () from /lib64/libX11.so.6
#1  0x00000032f1039886 in XQueryTree () from /lib64/libX11.so.6
#2  0x00000032f865a340 in QWidgetPrivate::updateFrameStrut() () from /lib64/libQtGui.so.4
#3  0x00000032f860c25b in QWidgetPrivate::frameStrut() const () from /lib64/libQtGui.so.4
#4  0x00000032f860c555 in QWidget::x() const () from /lib64/libQtGui.so.4
#5  0x00000032f8a7f3e4 in QDialog::adjustPosition(QWidget*) () from /lib64/libQtGui.so.4
#6  0x00000032f8a7f7ab in QDialog::setVisible(bool) () from /lib64/libQtGui.so.4
#7  0x00007ffff710ab07 in show (this=0xb10ce0) at /usr/include/QtGui/qwidget.h:494
#8  pqOutputWindow::onDisplayErrorText (this=0xb10ce0, text=...) at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/Qt/Core/pqOutputWindow.cxx:149
#9  0x00000032f018cebf in QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, QMetaObject const*, int, void**) () from /lib64/libQtCore.so.4
#10 0x00007ffff7164925 in pqOutputWindowAdapter::displayErrorText (this=<optimized out>, _t1=...) at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/fedora/Qt/Core/moc_pqOutputWindowAdapter.cxx:115
#11 0x00007ffff710937c in pqOutputWindowAdapter::DisplayErrorText (this=0xb0e1a0, text=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/Qt/Core/pqOutputWindowAdapter.cxx:91
#12 0x00000032f00714de in qt_message_output(QtMsgType, char const*) () from /lib64/libQtCore.so.4
#13 0x00000032f00716e8 in qt_message(QtMsgType, char const*, __va_list_tag*) () from /lib64/libQtCore.so.4
#14 0x00000032f0071e34 in qWarning(char const*, ...) () from /lib64/libQtCore.so.4
#15 0x00000032f8632c30 in qt_x_errhandler () from /lib64/libQtGui.so.4
#16 0x00000032f1045556 in _XError () from /lib64/libX11.so.6
#17 0x00000032f10427a1 in handle_error () from /lib64/libX11.so.6
#18 0x00000032f10427e5 in handle_response () from /lib64/libX11.so.6
#19 0x00000032f10433d8 in _XReply () from /lib64/libX11.so.6
#20 0x00007fffe72f7039 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/catalyst/libGL.so.1
#21 0x00007fffed3837e6 in ConvertGlyph (context=0x0, this=0x2ed2d80) at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/VTK/ThirdParty/ftgl/src/FTPixmapGlyph.cpp:60
#22 ftgl::FTPixmapGlyph::ConvertGlyph (this=0x2ed2d80, context=0x0) at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/VTK/ThirdParty/ftgl/src/FTPixmapGlyph.cpp:23
#23 0x00007fffed3836a6 in ftgl::FTPixmapGlyph::Render (this=0x2ed2d80, pen=..., context=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/VTK/ThirdParty/ftgl/src/FTPixmapGlyph.cpp:145
#24 0x00007fffed383214 in ftgl::FTGlyphContainer::render (this=0x2ee9920, index=<optimized out>, next=0, pen=..., context=0x0)
    at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/VTK/ThirdParty/ftgl/src/FTGlyphContainer.cpp:65
#25 0x00007fffed382829 in ftgl::FTFont::doRender (this=this@entry=0x2edf9a0, chr=49, nextChr=0, context=context@entry=0x0) at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/VTK/ThirdParty/ftgl/src/FTFont.cpp:288
#26 0x00007fffed382926 in ftgl::FTFont::render (this=0x2edf9a0, string=<optimized out>, context=0x0) at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/VTK/ThirdParty/ftgl/src/FTFont.cpp:258
#27 0x00007fffed382d3d in ftgl::FTGLPixmapFont::RenderOpenGL (this=0x2edf9a0, string=0x2ed2bf0 <Address 0x2ed2bf0 out of bounds>, context=0x0)
    at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/VTK/ThirdParty/ftgl/src/FTGLPixmapFontRenderOpenGL.cpp:29
#28 0x00007ffff0bb245c in vtkOpenGLFreeTypeTextMapper::RenderOverlay (this=0x2ed2330, viewport=<optimized out>, actor=<optimized out>)
    at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/VTK/Rendering/FreeTypeOpenGL/vtkOpenGLFreeTypeTextMapper.cxx:396
#29 0x00007fffeb92454c in vtkActor2D::RenderOverlay (this=0x2ed6c50, viewport=0x16c4930) at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/VTK/Rendering/Core/vtkActor2D.cxx:122
#30 0x00007ffff264bfd3 in vtkPVScalarBarActor::RenderOpaqueGeometry (this=0x2e5f9e0, viewport=0x16c4930) at /usr/src/debug/ParaView-3.98.1-source/ParaViewCore/VTKExtensions/Rendering/vtkPVScalarBarActor.cxx:308

which clearly identifies the problem to be in the catalyst driver. Now uninstalling it removed the issue. Next time I will need to take more care when following tutorials. Cheers for the help Orion.