Two information items:

1.  I did yum remove (all existing paraview rpm installs) followed by 
the GUI install of the X86-64 versions from EPEL referenced below in 
this thread.  Execution of paraview failed in the same manner -- 
immediate "death" of X

2.  As I maintained a login screen as a terminal on a different screen 
(ctrl-alt-F4), the postmortem in  ~/.xsession-errors, where ~ is my
home (not root) directory. is

paraview: Fatal IO error:  client killed

with no additional messages

I can provide the various log files in /var/log if this will help.

Any additional suggestions?  Is there a way to execute paraview within 
some sort of tracing shell to find the exact call or calls that failed?

Thanks,

Yasha Karant

On 10/09/2014 02:59 AM, Horst Hettrich wrote:
> 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