# Seg fault reasons
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/seg-fault-reasons/4300
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 11, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/seg-fault-reasons/4300 "2020-05-11T15:25:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@ShogunHirei](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ShogunHirei)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/seg-fault-reasons/4300/1 "2020-05-11T15:25:56Z")
Greetings everyone!
I’m having problems with “Segmentation Fault (Core Dumped)” error, and I’m unable to find out why it is happening with my system, is there some way to find a log, or some way to track this error?
Kind regards,
Shogun.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/seg-fault-reasons/4300/2 "2020-05-11T15:39:48Z")
A little more detail please. Is this during startup? Large dataset? Dataset you created yourself?
Alan
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### Author:  [@ShogunHirei](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ShogunHirei)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/seg-fault-reasons/4300/3 "2020-05-11T15:56:09Z")
Hi Alan! Thanks for the quick reply!
So it occurs when I use pvpython and try to generate a RenderView, as explained in my earlier question [here](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/pvpython-seg-fault-when-creting-renderview/4230). But this time, I just wanted to see if there is some way to track any kind error, to solve this or at least get more information to bring here to expert users, for debugging purposes.
Kind regards,
Shogun.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/seg-fault-reasons/4300/4 "2020-05-12T01:36:53Z")
The right way to track a segfault require to compile ParaView yourself in debug mode.
While not en hard task, it can be complex for one not accustomed with it. Let me know if you need help with that.
I’ve answered in your other topic.
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### Author:  [@ShogunHirei](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ShogunHirei)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2020, 1:42am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/seg-fault-reasons/4300/5 "2020-05-12T01:42:36Z")
Thanks for the answer! Didn’t know that! I will try to compile Paraview myself later.
Looking forward for your help!
🙂
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/seg-fault-reasons/4300/6 "2020-05-12T01:44:36Z")
See here for a step by step guide :
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md)