# Paraview crashing when trying to select cells

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-when-trying-to-select-cells/7968
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 9, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-when-trying-to-select-cells/7968 "2021-09-09T17:11:49Z")
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### Author: ![Max\_Amer](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/max_amer/32/6096_2.png) [@Max\_Amer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Max_Amer)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-when-trying-to-select-cells/7968/1 "2021-09-09T17:11:49Z")

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Hello, I am not very experienced with ParaView, but today I got a segmentation fault and the program crashed when using a feature that I have used many times with other projects. I’ll explain the steps I follow that lead to the crash.

1. Open “mir2\_grid.pvd” (See attachment)
2. Apply
3. Press “Find data” (v)
4. Select cells with “Select cells on” (s)

After doing the selection is where I get the segmentation error and ParaView crashes.

I have thought of uninstalling paraview and reinstalling latest version, but I’m not very fluent with linux and I have saved that option as a last resource.

Thank you.

[mir2\_grid.pvd](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/8TSICzWLlMFxPB9lI68dnvJePsJ.pvd) (3.3 KB)

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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: [September 10, 2021, 9:22am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-when-trying-to-select-cells/7968/2 "2021-09-10T09:22:52Z")

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.pvd file is not enough, you need to share the actual data as well.

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### Author: ![Max\_Amer](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/max_amer/32/6096_2.png) [@Max\_Amer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Max_Amer)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2021, 11:37am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-when-trying-to-select-cells/7968/3 "2021-09-11T11:37:09Z")

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Yes, sorry, I missed the data folder.

> **[mir2\_grid/mir2\_grid\_0.pvtu and 805 more files](https://wetransfer.com/downloads/9869e8fc1beb14ac56dd9b9dc902cd8b20210911110652/5de456)**
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> 806 files sent via WeTransfer, the simplest way to send your files around the world

This the data folder, I have uploaded al files in a link for download as there are many iterations and the attachment didn’t let me upload the entire folder at once.

Again, the steps I follow that lead to the segmentation error are the mentioned in the original post.

Thank you!

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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: [September 15, 2021, 10:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-when-trying-to-select-cells/7968/4 "2021-09-15T10:31:23Z")

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I reproduce on 5.9.1, this seems to have been fixed in paraview master though

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### Author: ![Max\_Amer](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/max_amer/32/6096_2.png) [@Max\_Amer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Max_Amer)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 9:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashing-when-trying-to-select-cells/7968/5 "2021-09-16T09:13:59Z")

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I have built paraview master following [these](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md#linux) instructions, and tried to plot selection over time, and I obtain the same segmentation error and crash, just after selecting the cells I want to analyze.

Maybe I have not built the master version in a correct manner, because I don’t understand what else I might be doing wrong.