On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 18:01 -0700, Yasha Karant 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 > system allows me to log in and everything works unless I again invoke > paraview, in which case the cycle repeats. > > Does anyone have a working EL 6 X86-64 paraview, and if so, was it an > RPM install, the binaries as provided by Paraview as > a tar.gz file, or was it built from source? How is it configured? > > Thus far, there has been response via the paraview list (a different > list than SL). > > Yasha Karant
We have it installed from the ParaView-4.0.1-Linux-64bit.tar.gz file and it supposedly works - I am not a ParaView user but it certainly starts up and does not crash in the way you describe. -- Mark Whidby Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix) Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team IT Services, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
