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.

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Mark Whidby
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