# Paraview binaries fail to start on CentOS 7.5.1804

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-binaries-fail-to-start-on-centos-7-5-1804/2487
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 30, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-binaries-fail-to-start-on-centos-7-5-1804/2487 "2019-08-30T09:01:14Z")
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### Author: ![samfux84](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/samfux84/32/1959_2.png) [@samfux84](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/samfux84)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-binaries-fail-to-start-on-centos-7-5-1804/2487/1 "2019-08-30T09:01:14Z")

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Hi,

I have installed the ParaView 5.6.2 binaries on our universities HPC cluster. But when trying to start paraview, it only prints out a warning about a fontconfig issue and then abort.

The warning does not seem to be related to the crash.

```
[sfux@lo-login-02 ~]$ module load paraview
[sfux@lo-login-02 ~]$ paraview
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 146: blank doesn't take any effect anymore. please remove it from your fonts.conf
Aborted
[sfux@lo-login-02 ~]$

```

How can such a problem be debugged ?

Any help is appreciated.

Best regards

Sam

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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: [August 30, 2019, 9:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-binaries-fail-to-start-on-centos-7-5-1804/2487/2 "2019-08-30T09:08:13Z")

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What do you mean by installed ?  
From a compiled Paraview ? From the distribution repository ? Downloaded from our website ?  
Could you please download our binary release and see if that fixes the problem ?  
[https://www.paraview.org/download/](https://www.paraview.org/download/)

Which OS are you using ?  
(Edit: it’s in the title Centos 7.5)  
Which GPU and GPU driver are you using ?

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 12:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-binaries-fail-to-start-on-centos-7-5-1804/2487/3 "2019-08-30T12:02:54Z")

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Copied from the old thread:

Ah, sorry. I missed the “Aborted” after that output. A backtrace from gdb would be very helpful. If it is during the load of some library, `LD_DEBUG=libs` can help trace what is getting loaded when. It could be a library path conflict.