Hello,

I installed paraview from the epel repo (version: 3.8.1-2). This runs
without any problems.

Best regards,

Horst

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 06:01:10PM -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