On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: > I have downloaded and yum installed > > paraview-3.10.1-4.el6.x86_64.rpm > > paraview-data-3.10.1-4.el6.noarch.rpm > > The application installs, but immediately crashes X windows. > /var/log/Xorg.*.log and /var/log/messages, and the like, show > nothing obvious (to me). The screen goes black, and then I am back to the > window manager SL 6 login splash screen. The
Sounds your X session is dying. Did you check ~/.xsession-errors right after crash? (I have not used paraview otherwise, but ~/.xsession-errors would be the place I'd look at first). -- Serguei Mokhov http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~mokhov http://marf.sf.net | http://sf.net/projects/marf
