On Jan 28, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Martin Renner wrote:
> Thank you to everybody who replied! Simon, on my machine, I can reproduce
> this segfault every time using these steps:
>
> - open Terminal.app (or iTerm or Aquamacs), start R --vanilla (RStudio, or
> R.app)
> in R:
> - x11() (in Terminal, my R defaults to x11, without me doing anything; in
> R.app or RStudio, I call x11() to reproduce this segfault.
> - plot (1:10) or any other plotting command.
Can you send us your sessionInfo(), please?
Thanks,
Simon
> I am not aware of any other conscious or subconscious steps I'm taking.
> Plotting to quartz() or pdf() works fine. My .bashrc sets R_LIBS and the
> usual additions to the default PATH, nothing that should affect R or x11.
> Since I haven't heard back a flood of people saying, 'yes, me too', I
> suspect, this issue is specific to my setup. I've tried clearing out any
> preference files related to x11, to no affect. When calling plot (1:10), I
> get a new x11 graphics window, ten circles and an x-axis with tick-marks, and
> a segfault. No box(), no y-axis. There's no .Rprofile in my home directory.
> Are there any other preference files that could be corrupted?
>
> My display variable looks fine, so Christian seems to have a different issue
> than me.
>> Sys.getenv ("DISPLAY")
> [1] "/tmp/launch-EepjEz/org.x:0"
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
>
>
> On 28 Jan 2012, at 10:17 , Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>> Martin,
>>
>> can you specify more precisely what you're doing? Issuing the code you sent
>> would use Quartz, so apparently you're doing other things that you didn't
>> mention - so can you share those so we can try to reproduce it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Martin Renner wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Is anybody else experiencing problems with X11 and R under Mac OS X 10.7
>>> (Lion)? If yes, maybe it's not specific to my machine. R segfaults when I
>>> try to plot to a X11 device, e.g. open R in the terminal and calling
>>>> plot (1:10)
>>> (see below). Plotting to a quartz device works fine. I'm using R-2.14.1
>>> (see below), compiled from source using homebrew. I've seen the same issue
>>> with the CRAN binaries, with a vanilla compile from source of R-2.14.1 and
>>> even with an old R-2.9.2.
>>>
>>> I wonder whether I'd have to wait for a fix from Apple, or whether there's
>>> a work-around like something that can be done during configuration?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> plot (1:10)
>>>
>>> *** caught segfault ***
>>> address 0x0, cause 'memory not mapped'
>>>
>>> Traceback:
>>> 1: axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...)
>>> 2: Axis.default(...)
>>> 3: Axis(...)
>>> 4: localAxis(if (is.null(y)) xy$x else x, side = 1, ...)
>>> 5: plot.default(1:10)
>>> 6: plot(1:10)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin11.2.0 (64-bit)
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>>>
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