On 10/09/2014 08:49 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> 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?
>
>
We are Nvidia academic "partners" and need to run Nvidia CUDA.  CUDA 
requires the Nvidia proprietary X11 video driver.  I do not have access 
to the machine because of campus firewall policy and port closures.  I 
probably will install the latest Nvidia driver, although I was hoping to 
not do this until we moved to SL 7 (once it goes to a production -- not 
beta/testing -- release).
Once this is done, I will report if this solves the problem.