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Current rviz for groovy from .debs crashing when displaying data like pointclouds or laser scans is a known issue, see also here, here and here

There are two ways around this:

Compiling rviz yourself

Using the fuerte or hydro versions (the latter is recommended)

You´ll find info about those two in the links I posted.

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