# Paraview 5.1.4 on Ubuntu 18 becomes unresponsive
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-1-4-on-ubuntu-18-becomes-unresponsive/3258
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 2, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-1-4-on-ubuntu-18-becomes-unresponsive/3258 "2020-01-02T17:33:52Z")
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### Author:  [@MarcFrei](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/MarcFrei)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-1-4-on-ubuntu-18-becomes-unresponsive/3258/1 "2020-01-02T17:33:52Z")
— Running paraview 5.1.4 in virtualbox with Windows 10 host and Ubuntu 18 guest.
The paraview installation starts to become unresponsive after a few minutes of using it. Doing the same things as usual - open some pvd/vtu files and investigate them. Once paraview doesn’t respond anymore, I wait for a while, then attempt to close paraview. A message appears if I want to force quit or wait, and both options result in the virtual box completely shutting down. As it shuts down, the following windows error message appears: Instruction at 0x0000000000 referenced memory at 0x0000000000 The memory could not be read.
I tried to uninstall reinstall paraview (sudo apt-get install paraview), the problem remains. Any ideas what might be going wrong?
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-1-4-on-ubuntu-18-becomes-unresponsive/3258/2 "2020-01-02T18:18:59Z")
Marc, welcome to the ParaView community!
Although I have no idea at all about this issue, may I suggest a newer version of ParaView? We are now at 5.7.0. 5.1.4 was released many, many moons ago! You can get the newest/ latest/ greatest at [paraview.org](http://paraview.org).
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### Author:  [@MarcFrei](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/MarcFrei)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-1-4-on-ubuntu-18-becomes-unresponsive/3258/4 "2020-01-02T18:35:58Z")
Thanks Walter! As I understand it, the supported version of paraview for ubuntu 18 is 5.1.4, a newer version might cause trouble with dependencies. So I’d have to upgrade to ubuntu 19, which I don’t want to do yet for some reasons that I don’t want to bore you with. I will see if I find another way and if not, then I will go for it. Many thanks!
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-1-4-on-ubuntu-18-becomes-unresponsive/3258/5 "2020-01-02T19:18:28Z")
Just download 5.7.0 into a sandbox area, untar it, and try to run it. It should be standalone, further, should not need to be installed…
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### Author:  [@MarcFrei](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/MarcFrei)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-1-4-on-ubuntu-18-becomes-unresponsive/3258/6 "2020-01-02T22:28:07Z")
Cool, I’ll give that a try, many thanks!