On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> 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).

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