# Cannot read gmsh file

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-read-gmsh-file/14337
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [April 4, 2024, 10:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-read-gmsh-file/14337 "2024-04-04T10:14:33Z")
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### Author: ![Boone](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@Boone](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Boone)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 10:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-read-gmsh-file/14337/1 "2024-04-04T10:14:33Z")

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Hi all,

I tried to import a .msh mesh with Paraview but it created a crash: “Loguru caught a signal: SIGSEGV, error: exception occurred: Segmentation fault”

I am using Paraview-5.11.0 and I pay attention to load the gmshIO plugin as shown on the figure below:

 ![Sélection_652](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5452de02acf226f55992bf7fda2c4c2c6f45dfd7.png)

Can someone help with this?  
Thanks a lot!

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-read-gmsh-file/14337/2 "2024-04-04T15:19:58Z")

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Please share your data

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### Author: ![Boone](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@Boone](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Boone)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-read-gmsh-file/14337/3 "2024-04-04T15:51:48Z")

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Here is a very coarse .msh file that can be used: [tmp.msh](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/yQDtPJqMWZggHO9LKAJbwmqVh7w.msh) (1.2 MB)

Thanks for your help!

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-read-gmsh-file/14337/4 "2024-04-04T15:53:41Z")

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Loads fine in ParaView 5.12.0 Linux Binary Release

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e16277002b6f8b07487292ef1980da25f1ba7f1f.png)

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### Author: ![Michael\_Li](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/michael_li/32/13976_2.png) [@Michael\_Li](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Michael_Li)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-read-gmsh-file/14337/5 "2024-04-22T15:52:21Z")

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I cannot find this plugin in Paraviw 5.12.0’s Windows edition, but it is there in the Linux edition. Does anyone else have the same issue on Windows 10?

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-read-gmsh-file/14337/6 "2024-04-22T15:55:48Z")

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It is not enabled in Windows, because the libgmsh is Linux only.

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### Author: ![Michael\_Li](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/michael_li/32/13976_2.png) [@Michael\_Li](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Michael_Li)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-read-gmsh-file/14337/7 "2024-04-22T15:59:20Z")

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Is there a workaround to load gmsh file on Windows?

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cannot-read-gmsh-file/14337/8 "2024-04-22T16:00:27Z")

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Open it on linux and save it to another format that can be opened on Windows.