Segmentation fault with OSMesa binary on Ubuntu 24.04

[ianhinder]

Hi,

I am trying to run pvbatch from the OSMesa ParaView build on Ubuntu 24.04 with a simple example script, and I get a segmentation fault.

There is a minimal example at GitHub - cfdemons/pvbatch-test with instructions for testing it with Docker.

I installed the Ubuntu packages

libglapi-mesa libgomp1 libgl1

to resolve missing symbol errors with pvbatch. I’m not sure if these are the right packages to install.

When I run it, I get

$ docker run paraview:test /opt/ParaView-5.13.1-osmesa-MPI-Linux-Python3.10-x86_64/bin/pvbatch /scripts/test.py

error: exception occurred: Segmentation fault

[mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

I'm using Ubuntu and ParaView osmesa binary crashes on rendering

This is a known issue that affect all binary versions of ParaView from https://paraview.org/download: https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/22350 How can I check if I am affected by this issue ? Run this: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 If it says something >= 2.35, you are affected and cannot use the osmesa binary release. What can I do to work around this bug ? Use the EGL release from https://paraview.org/download Compile ParaView with OSMesa yourself using the paravie…

[ianhinder]

Thanks. Not sure why I didn’t come across that FAQ! I assume I can’t use the EGL version if I am on a headless machine with no GPU? So I will have to compile it myself.

[mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

@ianhinder

I assume I can’t use the EGL version if I am on a headless machine with no GPU? So I will have to compile it myself.

Actually, with modern version of the libegl, you can use it with the CPU only!