# Paraview OpenGL RenderWindow Crash on start

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-opengl-renderwindow-crash-on-start/15951
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** opengl
**Created:** [January 6, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-opengl-renderwindow-crash-on-start/15951 "2025-01-06T13:11:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![MoonBridge](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/moonbridge/32/15753_2.png) [@MoonBridge](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/MoonBridge)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-opengl-renderwindow-crash-on-start/15951/1 "2025-01-06T13:11:40Z")

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Hey,  
I have been using OpenFOAM 11 with paraview but had to downgrade to ver. 10 due to work related issues. Since doing this paraview does not start up anymore. I tried reinstalling paraview in itself but it doesn’t seem to work. I am using a WSL. This is the same error stack trace I get everytime:

> Loguru caught a signal: SIGSEGV  
> Stack trace:  
> 29 0x55b16ddbc2d5 paraview(+0x92d5) [0x55b16ddbc2d5]  
> 28 0x7fad863e6e40 \_\_libc\_start\_main + 128  
> 27 0x7fad863e6d90 /lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x29d90) [0x7fad863e6d90]  
> 26 0x55b16ddbbfa4 paraview(+0x8fa4) [0x55b16ddbbfa4]  
> 25 0x55b16ddc19e4 paraview(+0xe9e4) [0x55b16ddc19e4]  
> 24 0x55b16ddbd15d paraview(+0xa15d) [0x55b16ddbd15d]  
> 23 0x7fad8624fce0 pqParaViewBehaviors::pqParaViewBehaviors(QMainWindow\*, QObject\*) + 2432  
> 22 0x7fad861a4e72 pqAlwaysConnectedBehavior::pqAlwaysConnectedBehavior(QObject\*) + 322  
> 21 0x7fad854ce4a6 pqObjectBuilder::createServer(pqServerResource const&, int) + 406  
> 20 0x7fad84464906 vtkSMSession::ConnectToSelf(int) + 38  
> 19 0x7fad836878f3 vtkProcessModule::RegisterSession(vtkSession\*) + 147  
> 18 0x7fad81283782 /opt/paraviewopenfoam510/lib/libvtkCommonCore-pv5.10.so.1(+0x514782) [0x7fad81283782]  
> 17 0x7fad81165b3d vtkCallbackCommand::Execute(vtkObject\*, unsigned long, void\*) + 29  
> 16 0x7fad845cc691 /opt/paraviewopenfoam510/lib/libvtkGUISupportQt-pv5.10.so.1(+0x29691) [0x7fad845cc691]  
> 15 0x7fad8497a7c8 /lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5(+0x2f17c8) [0x7fad8497a7c8]  
> 14 0x7fad85431456 pqServerManagerObserver::connectionCreated(long long) + 70  
> 13 0x7fad8497a7c8 /lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5(+0x2f17c8) [0x7fad8497a7c8]  
> 12 0x7fad8551b5c6 pqServerManagerModel::onConnectionCreated(long long) + 838  
> 11 0x7fad8542df76 pqServerManagerModel::serverAdded(pqServer\*) + 70  
> 10 0x7fad8497a7c8 /lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5(+0x2f17c8) [0x7fad8497a7c8]  
> 9 0x7fad8620fa26 pqDefaultViewBehavior::onServerCreation(pqServer\*) + 86  
> 8 0x7fad84368489 vtkPVSessionCore::GatherInformation(unsigned int, vtkPVInformation\*, unsigned int) + 377  
> 7 0x7fad8436819a vtkPVSessionCore::GatherInformationInternal(vtkPVInformation\*, unsigned int) + 58  
> 6 0x7fad7877c21d vtkPVRenderingCapabilitiesInformation::CopyFromObject(vtkObject\*) + \>13  
> 5 0x7fad7877c1e3 vtkPVRenderingCapabilitiesInformation::GetLocalCapabilities() + 339  
> 4 0x7fad83b04675 vtkOpenGLRenderWindow::SupportsOpenGL() + 1029  
> 3 0x7fad83b08d05 vtkOpenGLRenderWindow::OpenGLInit() + 133  
> 2 0x7fad83811f93 vtkglew\_glewInit + 611  
> 1 0x7fad837f833a /opt/paraviewopenfoam510/lib/libvtkglew-pv5.10.so.1(+0x5c33a) [0x7fad837f833a]  
> 0 0x7fad863ff520 /lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x42520) [0x7fad863ff520]  
> ( 0.362s) [paraview] :0 FATL| Signal: SIGSEGV

Thanks for your help. (I tried searching the forum but didn’t find something that could help me. I’m sorry if I overlooked anything).

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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: [January 6, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-opengl-renderwindow-crash-on-start/15951/2 "2025-01-06T13:17:22Z")

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> [@MoonBridge](#):
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> /opt/paraviewopenfoam510/lib/libvtkglew-pv5.10.so.1(+0x5c33a)

Please use ParaView for Windows from [https://www.paraview.org/download/](https://www.paraview.org/download/) instead

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### Author: ![MoonBridge](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/moonbridge/32/15753_2.png) [@MoonBridge](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/MoonBridge)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-opengl-renderwindow-crash-on-start/15951/3 "2025-01-06T13:19:45Z")

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Thank you for the fast reply