# crash paraview

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-paraview/8773
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 13, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-paraview/8773 "2022-01-13T20:33:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![nico](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nico/32/8355_2.png) [@nico](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nico)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-paraview/8773/1 "2022-01-13T20:33:58Z")

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hi  
I’m using paraview from one year and now it crash when i open xdmf or pvd files (i don’t use others formats). the error message when I oper paraview from terminal is:

```auto
Loguru caught a signal: SIGSEGV
Stack trace:
40 0x56313ac53dae paraview(+0x8dae) [0x56313ac53dae]
39 0x7f5e820400b3 __libc_start_main + 243
38 0x56313ac53c0a paraview(+0x8c0a) [0x56313ac53c0a]
37 0x7f5e80e3f116 QCoreApplication::exec() + 150
36 0x7f5e80e373ab QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) + 299
35 0x7f5e80e90435 QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) + 101
34 0x7f5e7ced14a3 g_main_context_iteration + 51
33 0x7f5e7ced1400 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x52400) [0x7f5e7ced1400]
32 0x7f5e7ced117d g_main_context_dispatch + 637
31 0x7f5e664ae32e /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5(+0x7932e) [0x7f5e664ae32e]
30 0x7f5e811fd35b QWindowSystemInterface::sendWindowSystemEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) + 187
29 0x7f5e8122310b QGuiApplicationPrivate::processWindowSystemEvent(QWindowSystemInterfacePrivate::WindowSystemEvent*) + 603
28 0x7f5e812217d3 QGuiApplicationPrivate::processMouseEvent(QWindowSystemInterfacePrivate::MouseEvent*) + 1763
27 0x7f5e80e3880a QCoreApplication::notifyInternal2(QObject*, QEvent*) + 394
26 0x7f5e8185a0f0 QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) + 816
25 0x7f5e81850a66 QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) + 134
24 0x7f5e818b21ec /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5(+0x1cc1ec) [0x7f5e818b21ec]
23 0x7f5e818af35d /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5(+0x1c935d) [0x7f5e818af35d]
22 0x7f5e81859457 QApplicationPrivate::sendMouseEvent(QWidget*, QMouseEvent*, QWidget*, QWidget*, QWidget**, QPointer<QWidget>&, bool, bool) + 439
21 0x7f5e80e3880a QCoreApplication::notifyInternal2(QObject*, QEvent*) + 394
20 0x7f5e8185a343 QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) + 1411
19 0x7f5e81850a66 QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) + 134
18 0x7f5e81a3a6a8 QToolButton::event(QEvent*) + 56
17 0x7f5e818932b6 QWidget::event(QEvent*) + 646
16 0x7f5e81a3a5fe QToolButton::mouseReleaseEvent(QMouseEvent*) + 14
15 0x7f5e81947035 QAbstractButton::mouseReleaseEvent(QMouseEvent*) + 229
14 0x7f5e81946e10 /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5(+0x260e10) [0x7f5e81946e10]
13 0x7f5e8184caa2 QAction::activate(QAction::ActionEvent) + 242
12 0x7f5e8184a3e6 QAction::triggered(bool) + 70
11 0x7f5e80e641d0 QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, int, int, void**) + 2000
10 0x7f5e81e42471 /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpqApplicationComponents-pv5.7.so.1(+0xc1471) [0x7f5e81e42471]
9 0x7f5e81eba611 pqLoadDataReaction::loadData() + 1201
8 0x7f5e81eb9736 pqLoadDataReaction::loadData(QList<QStringList> const&, QString const&, QString const&, pqServer*) + 806
7 0x7f5e81eb8ce2 pqLoadDataReaction::LoadFile(QStringList const&, pqServer*, QPair<QString, QString> const&) + 258
6 0x7f5e81f1a830 pqStandardRecentlyUsedResourceLoaderImplementation::addDataFilesToRecentResources(pqServer*, QStringList const&, QString const&, QString const&) + 1184
5 0x7f5e8060bf36 pqApplicationCore::recentlyUsedResources() + 70
4 0x7f5e80690931 pqRecentlyUsedResourcesList::load(pqSettings&) + 321
3 0x7f5e806bd91a pqServerResource::pqServerResource(QString const&) + 74
2 0x7f5e806c24ca /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpqCore-pv5.7.so.1(+0x1454ca) [0x7f5e806c24ca]
1 0x7f5e80cf2240 QString::operator=(QString const&) + 96
0 0x7f5e8205f210 /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x46210) [0x7f5e8205f210]
( 8.451s) [paraview] :0 FATL| Signal: SIGSEGV

```

I use the 5.7.0 version  
thanks for your attenction

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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: [January 14, 2022, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-paraview/8773/2 "2022-01-14T08:36:43Z")

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1. Use a more recent version of ParaView from [https://www.paraview.org/download/](https://www.paraview.org/download/)
2. share your data

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### Author: ![nico](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nico/32/8355_2.png) [@nico](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nico)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 9:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-paraview/8773/3 "2022-01-14T09:04:01Z")

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I downloaded the last version and I launched it as in [Install Paraview 5.8](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-5-8/4148) . the last version is:

```auto

Client Information:
Version: 5.10.0
VTK Version: 
Qt Version: 5.12.9
vtkIdType size: 64bits
Embedded Python: On
Python Library Path: /home/nico/Scaricati/ParaView-5.10.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/lib/python3.9
Python Library Version: 3.9.5 (default, Dec 22 2021, 22:21:42) [GCC 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)]
Python Numpy Support: On
Python Numpy Path: /home/nico/Scaricati/ParaView-5.10.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy
Python Numpy Version: 1.21.1
Python Matplotlib Support: On
Python Matplotlib Path: /home/nico/Scaricati/ParaView-5.10.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/matplotlib
Python Matplotlib Version: 3.2.1
Python Testing: Off
MPI Enabled: On
ParaView Build ID: superbuild 8ec820e478df782e5b6694c88237b77ea04fdf54 (!950)
Disable Registry: Off
Test Directory: 
Data Directory: 
SMP Backend: TBB
SMP Max Number of Threads: 8
OpenGL Vendor: Intel
OpenGL Version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.0.3
OpenGL Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)

Connection Information:
Remote Connection: No

```

the error message is the same. What data I have to share? I share the an example of xdmf file  
[u.xdmf](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/8R2Fkl1Ig5JedUsLQf7tRuPqk3.xdmf) (38.1 KB)  
[u.h5](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/rE87TitYTaFj5hLfPYJUOEB9gHD.h5) (2.0 MB)

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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: [January 14, 2022, 9:07am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-paraview/8773/4 "2022-01-14T09:07:25Z")

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I’m unable to reproduce, it opens fine here:

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/1/140e19e2187f8434014a2dbe38ddfd49f664b9e6.png)

I’d suggest reseting/deleting your settings

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### Author: ![nico](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nico/32/8355_2.png) [@nico](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nico)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 9:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-paraview/8773/5 "2022-01-14T09:13:15Z")

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now it works, thank you very mutch!! 🙂