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Paraview no longer opens .pvtu files (linux)

I'm having a problem loading .pvtu files and .vtu files in general. When I try to open a file in Paraview (5.10.0-RC1) i get a long list of error messages related to parsing XML files:

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XMLParser/vtkXMLParser.cxx, line 375 vtkXMLDataParser (0x6409b1932ce0): Error parsing XML in stream at line 43, column 0, byte index 3152: not well-formed (invalid token)

ERROR: In ./VTK/IO/XML/vtkXMLReader.cxx, line 521 vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader (0x6409b7b8f910): Error parsing input file. ReadXMLInformation aborting.

ERROR: In ./VTK/Common/ExecutionModel/vtkExecutive.cxx, line 752 vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0x6409bb197960): Algorithm vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader(0x6409b7b8f910) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (0x6409bb2fd7c0) Debug: Off Modified Time: 2196890 Reference Count: 1 Registered Events: (none) Request: REQUEST_INFORMATION ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1 FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0

This is repeated many times, pointing at different lines.

Troubleshooting

I have no idea what I'm doing differently from before, I could load the files without problems yesterday...

I have tried this:

  1. I can load the files without problems on another setup / installation (my windows laptop).
  2. I have tried removing Paraview completely and re-installng:
    • $ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove paraview
    • $ sudo apt-get update
    • $ sudo apt-get -y install paraview

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.4.

Is there something wrong with my paraview preferences for loading the file type? Any help would be appreciated, new to posting on stack overflow!

Update (DATA)

I can open some simple .vtu files like this one: (download) https://people.math.sc.edu/Burkardt/data/vtu/triangle_mesh_linear.vtu

from the examples on the site: https://people.math.sc.edu/Burkardt/data/vtu/vtu.html

I can open my own files on my windows laptop setup, but not on my ubuntu setup like I need to.

An example of my own files (same file two different links):

https://filetransfer.io/data-package/9e5q1xSF#link or https://file.io/rqkfG4YnaLuQ

Test:

The file opens fine in Glance: https://kitware.github.io/glance/app/

Hope this helps!

Solved!

Installing latest binaries using this guide (if I understand that term correctly), I can now open my files. Thank you @NicoVuaille

Solution

  • Installing latest binaries using this guide, I can now open my files. Thanks to @NicoVuaille for the solution.

    Steps taken:

    $ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove paraview  

$ sudo apt-get install git cmake build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev libxt-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev libqt5help5 qttools5-dev qtxmlpatterns5-dev-tools libqt5svg5-dev python3-dev python3-numpy libopenmpi-dev libtbb-dev ninja-build qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools


$ git clone --recursive https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview.git
$ mkdir paraview_build
$ cd paraview_build
$ cmake -GNinja -DPARAVIEW_USE_PYTHON=ON -DPARAVIEW_USE_MPI=ON -DVTK_SMP_IMPLEMENTATION_TYPE=TBB -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../paraview
$ ninja

    And then running Paraview from ./bin/paraview Now the files open fine!