Surface with edges shows transparent object in 6.0.1

ParaView Support
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I’m running 6.0.1 in ubuntu 26.04 LTS. To actually see the GUI, I have to export HWLOC_COMPONENTS=-gl, nothing shows otherwise.

With that setup, I have a transparent object under ‘surface with edges’ in 3D.

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Switching to 2D it looks like it should, but I lose the 3D controls and want to render in perspective:

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This looks a bit like this very old bug surface with edges representation in 5.7 - #4 by Kenichiro-Yoshimi , but this has been fixed?

What can I do? Thanks, Jens

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How did you install ParaView?
Please use the latest release from https://www.paraview.org/download/.

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I’m using the version that ships with Ubuntu, expecting a stable setup and minimal installation effort across my various devices. But as pointed out, that failed, no GUI came up, and I had to resort to the HWLOC fix

I’d assume that my issue is related to not being able to use -gl. This appears to be a known issue with paraview on 26.04. Ubuntu 26.04 ParaView compile and run issues

Is there a pending update to fix this?

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I’m using the version that ships with Ubuntu

This version is not shipped by Kitware.

If you reproduce the issue with the version from the latest release from https://www.paraview.org/download/, I would be happy to investigate the issue.

If not, you may want to reach out to ubuntu maintainers.

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I have downloaded and installed 6.1.1 from your download. Binaries. I used 6.1.1 as this appeared to be the most recent ‘stable’.

This runs without the HWLOC fix, but has the same problem rendering ‘surface w/ edges’.

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Got it, do this appear systematically ? (eg: Source → Sphere) or only with this specific data ?

Please share this data if that is so.

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Slightly different, but still messed-up behaviour with the source->sphere. (And yes, I did reset all my user prefs before.)

The files for my earlier geom are attached.

ubend_coarse.mesh.xmf (7.8 KB)

ubend_coarse.mesh.h5 (5.7 MB)

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Ok, can you share the content of Help → About ?

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Client Information:
Version: 6.1.1
VTK Version: 9.6.2
Qt Version: 6.9.0
vtkIdType size: 64bits
Embedded Python: On
Python Library Path: /usr/local/ParaView-6.1.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.12-x86_64/lib/python3.12
Python Library Version: 3.12.7 (main, May 22 2026, 22:56:14) [GCC 10.3.1 20210422 (Red Hat 10.3.1-1)]
Python Numpy Support: On
Python Numpy Path: /usr/local/ParaView-6.1.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.12-x86_64/lib/python3.12/site-packages/numpy
Python Numpy Version: 1.26.4
Python Matplotlib Support: On
Python Matplotlib Path: /usr/local/ParaView-6.1.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.12-x86_64/lib/python3.12/site-packages/matplotlib
Python Matplotlib Version: 3.7.2
Python Testing: Off
MPI Enabled: On
ParaView Build ID: superbuild 6d6f39f72855b629d19da92b2b7f651a7a02e9d5 (!1345)
Disable Registry: Off
Test Directory:
Data Directory:
SMP Backend: TBB
SMP Max Number of Threads: 8
OpenGL Vendor: Mesa
OpenGL Version: 4.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 26.0.8-1ubuntu0.3
OpenGL Renderer: NVE7
Accelerated filters overrides available: No

Connection Information:
Remote Connection: No

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So, If I’m not mistaken you are using a NVIDIA GK107, which is a chipset from 2012 ?
And you are not using the nvidia driver but the mesa OpenGL implementation.

Do you have a discrete GPU you could on your machine ?
Could you install nvidia driver ?

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Well, my k2000 was sold 2013-2020, probably around 8y old.

But yes, if I run the 6.1.1. download binaries on a more recent laptop, this gets around the HWLOC issue and renders ok.

OpenGL Vendor: Intel
OpenGL Version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 26.0.8-1ubuntu0.3
OpenGL Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (RPL-P)

I have other devices with more recent h/w, will try your suggestion there.

Thanks a lot for the quick help, Jens