# Bad file descriptor error
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-file-descriptor-error/3037
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [November 25, 2019, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-file-descriptor-error/3037 "2019-11-25T09:15:26Z")
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### Author:  [@bastian](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/bastian)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-file-descriptor-error/3037/1 "2019-11-25T09:15:26Z")
I am trying to get Paraview to run on an HPC Linux server.
Calling either `pvpython` or `pvbatch` from any of the two most recent pre-compiled versions
`ParaView-5.7.0-osmesa-MPI-Linux-Python3.7-64bit` and
`ParaView-5.7.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.7-64bit`,
I get the following error message.
```auto
[cli_0]: write_line error; fd=14 buf=:cmd=init pmi_version=1 pmi_subversion=1
:
system msg for write_line failure : Bad file descriptor
[cli_0]: Unable to write to PMI_fd
[cli_0]: write_line error; fd=14 buf=:cmd=get_appnum
:
system msg for write_line failure : Bad file descriptor
Fatal error in PMPI_Init: Other MPI error, error stack:
MPIR_Init_thread(565):
MPID_Init(175).......: channel initialization failed
MPID_Init(463).......: PMI_Get_appnum returned -1
[cli_0]: write_line error; fd=14 buf=:cmd=abort exitcode=1094415
:
system msg for write_line failure : Bad file descriptor
```
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### Author:  [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/bad-file-descriptor-error/3037/2 "2019-11-25T12:42:12Z")
ParaView (and other executables as pvbatch) _should_ be started with the MPI they were built with.
In the distributed binaries you can find a compatible `mpirun` executable.
It is mainly OK for desktop use BUT in your case, you probably have a specific mpi for your HPC server, so will need to build your own ParaView.