# Paraview 5.7 Mac Crashing

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-7-mac-crashing/3241
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [December 28, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-7-mac-crashing/3241 "2019-12-28T16:54:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![helenbrk](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b9bd4f/32.png) [@helenbrk](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/helenbrk)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-7-mac-crashing/3241/1 "2019-12-28T16:54:33Z")

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I am using Paraview 5.7 on the Mac and it reliably crashes when opening the following:

This is the state file:  
[multiblock\_scalar.pvsm](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/rTCjslL3DoF7gsHtKOzeVKLMPK3.pvsm) (513.6 KB)

which loads the following data:

[Archive.zip](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/9kJOMEsS7PiqfSeocfL68hk6tQm.zip) (19.4 KB)

To make it crash, load the state file (with the data bs…pvtu) then try to display the point probe time history.

I think this may have something to do with the fact that some of the numbers in the data files are small i.e. 1.0e-35 (which is my own issue), but this shouldn’t cause Paraview to crash in any case.

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-7-mac-crashing/3241/2 "2020-01-02T23:26:03Z")

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I don’t know the underlying cause, but I get a crash when loading this state file and showing the point probe history with the following stack trace:

```auto
    #0 0x12bbff1f0 in vtkDataSetAttributes::CopyData(vtkDataSetAttributes*, long long, long long) vtkDataSetAttributes.cxx:817
    #1 0x123a0dd17 in vtkExtractDataArraysOverTime::vtkInternal::AddTimeStepInternal(unsigned int, int, double, vtkDataObject*) vtkExtractDataArraysOverTime.cxx:569
    #2 0x123a0d241 in vtkExtractDataArraysOverTime::vtkInternal::AddTimeStep(int, double, vtkDataObject*) vtkExtractDataArraysOverTime.cxx:320
    #3 0x123a17a2f in vtkExtractDataArraysOverTime::RequestData(vtkInformation*, vtkInformationVector**, vtkInformationVector*) vtkExtractDataArraysOverTime.cxx:777

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### Author: ![helenbrk](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b9bd4f/32.png) [@helenbrk](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/helenbrk)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-7-mac-crashing/3241/3 "2020-01-03T03:35:49Z")

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Well. At least it is reproducible. I read another thread where numbers with a small negative exponent were causing crashes. I replaced everything with an exponent more negative than e-16 and the crash went away. Before I did that I was getting an error:

```
ERROR: In /Users/kitware/dashboards/buildbot-slave/a64f5607/build/superbuild/paraview/src/VTK/IO/XML/vtkXMLUnstructuredDataReader.cxx, line 527
vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x7ff50e906980): Cannot read points array from Points in piece 0. The data array in the element may be too short.
```