Hi,
try to run it via 'strace' command from CLI, like eg.

strace paraview

and see where it stops, sometime it gives usefull hint..

On 10/09/2014 09:09 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> 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
>