[Paraview] Crash occurs after clicking "File" then "Open"

[Cory Quammen]

Roman,

Thanks for reporting back. It looks like I need to handle some errors
conditions in ParaView better.

I have reported this issue at
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17310

- Cory

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Roman Kowch <rskowch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Cory,
>
> Thanks for your solution! I found that ParaView crashed when I had a volume
> mounted that belonged to another user on the Mac workstation, and that
> volume denied me access. For example, if I tried:
>
> ls -l /Volumes
>
> the error stream shows "ls: volume_name: Permission denied" for each volume
> denying me access. After unmounting those volumes, ParaView was able to open
> files normally.
>
> Thanks,
> Roman
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Roman,
>>
>> Thanks for the error report, it provides some useful clues. It looks
>> like ParaView is crashing when collecting information about the
>> mounted volumes on your system. Do you have an external drive or
>> network file system mounted on the Mac Pro that is crashing? If so,
>> could you try to unmount it and see if ParaView runs as expected?
>>
>> Barring that, are there any non-Latin characters in the names of the
>> volumes mounted on the Mac in question?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cory
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Roman Kowch <rskowch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm running ParaView on a Mac Pro
>> > computer, with OS X 10.11.6. The computer does not have DBaR.
>> >
>> > Another Mac Pro I've used, with OS X 10.11.6, does not reproduce the
>> > same
>> > crash I'm seeing on this particular computer. Again, I could send a
>> > crash
>> > report if that would help.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
>> > <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Do you have Dell Backup and Recovery (DBaR) tools installed on your
>> >> system? If so, the crash may be related to an issue with DBaR at Qt 5.
>> >> You may need to update DBaR to the latest version. See [1] for
>> >> details.
>> >>
>> >> [1]
>> >>
>> >> http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/software-os/f/3526/t/19634253
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Roman Kowch <rskowch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > I've compiled Paraview from source, v. 5.3.0 RC3 using Qt5 for the
>> >> > GUI.
>> >> > The
>> >> > application however crashes on one of my computers when I simply
>> >> > click
>> >> > "File" then "Open." It seems that the crash happens when it needs to
>> >> > bring
>> >> > up the dialog for selecting a file. It also happens if I do these
>> >> > menu
>> >> > clicks:
>> >> >
>> >> > 1. "File", "Load Window Layout"
>> >> > 2. "File", "Load State"
>> >> > 3. "File", "Save State"
>> >> >
>> >> > As you can see, the crash appears to happen whenever a directory
>> >> > dialog
>> >> > is
>> >> > expected to appear. Should I send a crash report to diagnose this
>> >> > problem?
>> >> >
>> >> > I should also mention that on another computer, this problem does NOT
>> >> > appear
>> >> > for the same build of Paraview. The problem seems unique to a
>> >> > particular
>> >> > computer I'm using.
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards,
>> >> > Roman
>> >> >
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Cory Quammen
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Kitware, Inc.