Paraview 5.9 Freezes when opening python shell

ParaView Support
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I’m running Ubuntu 20.04

I downloaded the Paraview .tar.gz file from the Downloads page and extracted into a directory inside Downloads. When I run the paraview executable within bin/ the GUI appears and works well until I open the Python shell view. As soon as I click in the shell, Paraview freezes and can only be closed by killing it. This happens for both 5.9.0 and 5.9.1. Is this a bug, or is just my setup? Paraview 5.8 doesn’t have this problem.

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Sounds like something in your environnement is breaking ParaView python interpreter.
I’d check any python env var like PYTHONPATH.

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same for me:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
python3.8

pvpython works