[Paraview] Strange instability

[David E DeMarle]

Try running with the -rc argument to prevent it from trying your
application preferences, or move .config/ParaView into a temp
directory.

cheers,
Dave DeMarle

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Stephen Sintay <ssintay at lanl.gov> wrote:
> I downloaded and installed paraview-3.4.0 for Mac 10.5+ and have been using
> it without issue for the past month.  However, today it has stopped loading
> datasets....
>
> Here is an example of a dataset that fails.
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <VTKFile type="ImageData" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian">
>  <ImageData WholeExtent="0 8 0 8 0 0"   Origin="0 0 0" Spacing="1 1 0">
>   <Piece Extent="0 8 0 8 0 0">
>     <CellData Scalars="ID">
>       <DataArray Name="ID" type="Int32" format="ascii">
> 1 1 1 1 4 4 4 4 1 1 1 1 4 4 4 4 1 1 1 1 5 4 4 4 1 1 1 5 5 5 4 4 2 2 5 5 5 5
> 5 3 2 2 2 5 5 5 3 3 2 2 2 2 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3
>       </DataArray>
>     </CellData>
>   </Piece>
>  </ImageData>
> </VTKFile>
>
> When I switch to the representation to "Surface" and the label to "ID" it
> crashes the application. Both 3D and 2D datasets of this type fail without
> error when I attempt to switch to "Surface" and "ID".
>
> I deleted the previous paraview binary and installed a new one today without
> any success. I am guessing that there is a temporary file somewhere that I
> need to delete.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
> p.s. I am new to debugging paraview issues and I did not find a search on
> the mailing list so I apologize in advance if this is a common problem with
> a common fix.
>
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