paraview 6.0.1 boken since yesterday update of system?

ParaView Support
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Hello,
I had been using paraview 6.0.1 since its release on my system and it always worked, yesterday I did the classic update & upgrade of the system, and today when opening paraview i get an error and can not open at all.

VisRTX 0.1.6, using devices:
 0: NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU (Total: 3.9 GB, Available: 2.6 GB)
(   0.934s) [paraview        ]vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.:730   WARN| vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x7df76e0): Cannot create GLX context.
(   0.973s) [paraview        ]     pqOutputWidget.cxx:65    WARN| Detected reentry into OutputWindow display text with message: warning: In unknown, line 0
warning: QRhiGles2: Failed to create temporary context

(   1.009s) [paraview        ]     pqOutputWidget.cxx:65    WARN| Detected reentry into OutputWindow display text with message: warning: In unknown, line 0
warning: QRhiGles2: Failed to create context

(   1.009s) [paraview        ]     pqOutputWidget.cxx:65    WARN| Detected reentry into OutputWindow display text with message: warning: In unknown, line 0
warning: Failed to create QRhi for QBackingStoreRhiSupport

(   1.018s) [paraview        ]vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.c:920   WARN| vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x7df76e0): Failed to initialize OpenGL functions!
(   1.018s) [paraview        ]vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.c:939   WARN| vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x7df76e0): Unable to find a valid OpenGL 3.2 or later implementation. Please update your video card driver to the latest version. If you are using Mesa please make sure you have version 11.2 or later and make sure your driver in Mesa supports OpenGL 3.2 such as llvmpipe or openswr. If you are on windows and using Microsoft remote desktop note that it only supports OpenGL 3.2 with nvidia quadro cards. You can use other remoting software such as nomachine to avoid this issue.
(   1.158s) [paraview        ]vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.:730   WARN| vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x88e57b0): Cannot create GLX context.
(   1.158s) [paraview        ]vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.c:920   WARN| vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x88e57b0): Failed to initialize OpenGL functions!
(   1.158s) [paraview        ]vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.c:939   WARN| vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x88e57b0): Unable to find a valid OpenGL 3.2 or later implementation. Please update your video card driver to the latest version. If you are using Mesa please make sure you have version 11.2 or later and make sure your driver in Mesa supports OpenGL 3.2 such as llvmpipe or openswr. If you are on windows and using Microsoft remote desktop note that it only supports OpenGL 3.2 with nvidia quadro cards. You can use other remoting software such as nomachine to avoid this issue.

the same issue is happening with paraview 6.1.0.

2

Your graphic driver is broken: Paraview display is completely corrupted with white/grey triangles after a driver update

( i know, this is the windows version of this bug but probably the same)

3

thanks, i unisntalled and installed again, paraview is working now?
i am not sure if is seeing the graphic card:

Client Information:
Version: 6.0.1
VTK Version: 9.5.2
Qt Version: 6.9.0
vtkIdType size: 64bits
Embedded Python: On
Python Library Path: /home/franco/Programs/ParaView/ParaView-6.0.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.12-x86_64/lib/python3.12
Python Library Version: 3.12.7 (main, Sep 25 2025, 18:56:46) [GCC 10.3.1 20210422 (Red Hat 10.3.1-1)]
Python Numpy Support: On
Python Numpy Path: /home/franco/Programs/ParaView/ParaView-6.0.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.12-x86_64/lib/python3.12/site-packages/numpy
Python Numpy Version: 1.26.4
Python Matplotlib Support: On
Python Matplotlib Path: /home/franco/Programs/ParaView/ParaView-6.0.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.12-x86_64/lib/python3.12/site-packages/matplotlib
Python Matplotlib Version: 3.7.2
Python Testing: Off
MPI Enabled: On
ParaView Build ID: superbuild 8c0f929966f005396802f3b2957c734a6c68b3c1 (!1292)
Disable Registry: Off
Test Directory:
Data Directory:
SMP Backend: TBB
SMP Max Number of Threads: 16
OpenGL Vendor: Intel
OpenGL Version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 26.1.1-1~24.04-tux1
OpenGL Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (ADL GT2)
Accelerated filters overrides available: No

Connection Information:
Remote Connection: No

I am wrong or it is not?
because in my system i can see the card:

nvidia-smi
Tue Jun 23 10:24:03 2026       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.159.04             Driver Version: 595.71.05      CUDA Version: 13.2     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU         Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   59C    P8              4W /   35W |       0MiB /   4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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You are not using your NVIDIA GPU currently.

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what i thought, never configured this before, paraview was detecting it automatically. how one sets up to use the NVIDIA GPU? (linux/ubuntu in my case and paraview 6.0.1 downloaded from the tar file)

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It was not, ParaView is using whatever OpenGL you provide.

you can run glxinfo to check.

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okey, a little of chatgpt helped.
i needed to setup OpenGL to use NVIDIA,

sudo prime-select nvidia

thanks for your help, mathieu.