On 10/08/2014 07:01 PM, 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.

So X is clearly dying and that is what needs to be debugged.  What does 
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old contain after the crash - that's the previous 
Xorg log file.

What video driver?  Installed from where?


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