Thomas, Check your graphics drivers. You can use tools like `glxinfo` to tell you which OpenGL version is supported. ParaView now requires 3.2 or newer. If you cannot upgrade your graphics drivers, you can use software OpenGL implementation packaged by ParaView binaries as follows:
.../paraview --mesa Hope that helps, Utkarsh On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 7:45 AM, Fastl, Thomas <thomas.fa...@kcl.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear Community, > > > I've recently upgraded to ParaView 5.4.1 since ParaView 5.0.0 stopped > working on my workstation. Therefore, I've downloaded and unpacked > ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit.tar.gz, however, receive the > following error message upon execution: > > > Warning: In > /home/buildslave/dashboards/buildbot/paraview-pvbinsdash-linux-shared-release_superbuild/build/superbuild/paraview/src/VTK/Rendering/OpenGL2/vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, > line 838 > vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow (0x3846580): VTK is designed to work with > OpenGL version 3.2 but it appears it has been given a context that does not > support 3.2. VTK will run in a compatibility mode designed to work with > earlier versions of OpenGL but some features may not work. > > Segmentation fault > > > I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 on my workstation and should probably mention that > I receive this error message right after execution of 'paraview', i.e., the > Graphical User Interface never appears. Does anybody have a similar problem > or know on how to resolve this issue? Thanks! > > > Best, Thomas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > https://paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
