# Paraview crashing in Mac for simple mesh.
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-in-mac-for-simple-mesh/12949
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 27, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-in-mac-for-simple-mesh/12949 "2023-09-27T20:05:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@SubhenduC](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/SubhenduC)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-in-mac-for-simple-mesh/12949/1 "2023-09-27T20:05:15Z")
Hi,
I was trying to use Paraview for visualization of a simple mesh data with 16 HEX8 elements and has 50 data set with nodal values and 5 set with cell values. It loads perfectly and also I can visualize the data set without any problem with ‘Surface’ turned on. But if I turn on the ‘Surface with Mesh’ then there is weird graphics issue that pops up. And if I select ‘Hover cells on’ to investigate the data of a particular cell, it crashes immediately. I have tried with some other mesh but same issue.
[CrashReport\_Paraview.txt](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/vHkMJPIGjSj8s5MbCDkgLd9VsTh.txt) (136.4 KB)
Attached is the crash report from Mac.
Best
Subhendu Chakraborty
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-in-mac-for-simple-mesh/12949/2 "2023-09-28T07:00:26Z")
Please share your data
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-in-mac-for-simple-mesh/12949/3 "2023-09-28T13:38:17Z")
This looks like a known issue on some Macs. See ["Surface With Edges" rendering goes wild when viewing multidimensional meshes](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/surface-with-edges-rendering-goes-wild-when-viewing-multidimensional-meshes/12741) and [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/20206](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/20206). I get it sometimes on my Mac, too.
The weird graphics are well reported. I haven’t heard about the crash, but I was able to replicate that on my Mac as well. I only got the crash if I was in `Surface with Mesh` mode. If I put it back in `Surface` mode, I did not see an issue. I expect the two issues are related.
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### Author:  [@SubhenduC](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/SubhenduC)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-in-mac-for-simple-mesh/12949/4 "2023-09-28T16:43:58Z")
Attached is the exodus file.
[Data\_ParaviewCrash\_2023-09-28-01-37-38.e](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/mOA7bcjQ0V7GdUTVx42x0drDIIb.e) (600.3 KB)
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### Author:  [@SubhenduC](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/SubhenduC)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-in-mac-for-simple-mesh/12949/5 "2023-09-28T16:45:42Z")
Thanks for the information.
The work around mentioned in those links will be enough for me for the time being.