segmentation fault when loading hyperview (linux)

Hadar Raz
Hadar Raz Altair Community Member
edited October 4 in Community Q&A

Hi,

Just installed hyperworks 2024 on fedora linux 40 (very similar to redhat). I know it is not supported but I installed the required packages for hypermesh by myself.

hypermesh runs fine as far as I can tell, but when running hyperview there is segmentation fault, either by running ./hv script directly or changing the interface to hyperview after loading hypermesh.

Tried with v2023.1, same result - hyperview gives segmentation fault.

Any experience using fedora, or maybe opensuse, will be helpfull.

Thanks!

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  • Hadar Raz
    Hadar Raz Altair Community Member
    edited September 30

    Anyone using hyperworks on openSUSE? fedora?

    There are other problems as well, mainly with graphics... The reason I'm not using redhat/centos is that I'm on a new laptop, I need to use recent kernel to have it working properly.

    Maybe someone from altair can help here?

  • thg
    thg Altair Community Member
    edited October 2

    Hello,

    I have the same issues. I think it had something to do with updating to Fedora 40 on my laptop (ThinkPad E14 Gen2 AMD). I never got that machine to display meshes properly tho. The component was just a little darker but no mesh lines. My workaround was the "Shrink Elements" view option but that sucks on large models. I remember hearing from support (three years ago) that they had issues with some graphics cards. And It looks like the could not be bothered to fix it.

    On a tower in my office (Fedora 39) I run HyperWorks (2022.3 and 2023) without any major issues. Can´t update that machine anyway any time soon due to a NVIDIA graphics card and Fedora 40 making wayland a first class citizen.

    I want to try going back to Fedora 39 on my laptop. I even had success running the older HW versions with the ancient GUI (until 2022.3) on Debian and Arch-based OS on the same laptop. However, the newer GUI did not work which was why I switched to Fedora.

    Best Regards and I feel your pain..
    Tobias

  • Hadar Raz
    Hadar Raz Altair Community Member
    edited October 4

    Hi,

    I have a thinkpad p14s gen 5 amd, with Radeon 780M Graphics. Should work according to "Altair HyperWorks Hardware Recommendations and Certifications Guide".

    Yes I have exactly the same mesh display problems. Tetra and tria meshes show fine, but hexa and quad meshes are never displayed. Working with "shrink elements" is slow, so not a good option. I tried with wayland and X11 sessions, both have the same problems.

    The tower in your office has nvidia card, while your laptop is radeon. If the graphics card driver is the problem, installing fedora 39 on the laptop might not work... However it is worth a try.

    I would like to hear if someone else with recent linux (fedora 40, opensuse tumbleweed, arch, ...), preferably on radeon graphics card, is having the same problems or maybe somehow it is working fine.

    Thanks for sharing, maybe together we can find a solution here.
    Hadar

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