I have a executable file and when I double-click it, it works OK. but when I use terminal and type ./paraview it gives me this error message:
Segmentation fault(Core dumped)
How to run paraview in terminal?
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Whatever is going on here is specific to this paraview program and not especially related to the Linux shell. I don't know exactly what you're double-clicking on, but it could be a shortcut that includes specific command-line arguments, a specific working directory, etc. It could also be that the way you're running a terminal causes it to have different environment variables set or something.
At any rate, a program shouldn't just crash by segfaulting when it's run in a way it doesn't expect, so this would definitely count as a bug in paraview.
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To know more about what the program is doing and why failing you could use strace. based on your distro you could install it by using: apt-get install strace or yum install strace
Then give a try to this:
strace -f ./paraview
The option -f is to trace child processes, it will help to get more info and hopefully find the root cause of the problem.
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elias soltanie
I used strace but I don't understand the output. Could you please look at it and see if you understand what is going on? [pid 4834] recvmsg(10, 0x7ffd1832a070, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) [pid 4834] recvmsg(10, 0x7ffd1832a070, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) [pid 4834] --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0} --- [pid 4835] +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++ +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++ Segmentation fault (core dumped)
The problem arises from some permission issues. You will notice that if you are in PATH_TO_PARAVIEW_DIR/bin , try
sudo PATH_TO_PARAVIEW_DIR/bin/paraview
This should work.
sh paraview