I try it on windows and it works too:
I wonder if it could be due to some issue in your user setting, on windows it should be under a folder named ParaView in AppData\Roaming.
Could you please try to delete this folder and try it again? Doing a copy of this folder before deleting it, might be safer especially if you care about your user setting 
Alternatively, you can run paraview in dry run (with the option --dr)