I tried CRAN R again, and could NOT reproduce this error, at least not this
time. Maybe I inadvertently used my own compiled version last time I tried CRAN
R. I may try the folks at homebrew to trace this issue. Thank you so much to
everybody who chimed in.
Cheers,
Martin
On 28 Jan 2012, at 20:35 , Simon Urbanek wrote:
> Martin,
>
> On Jan 28, 2012, at 9:31 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Never mind - you did in your first e-mail. But from that info it is clear
> that you're not using CRAN R, so I fear we can't really help you since this
> problem is specific to your own R build. You should try the R release on CRAN
> to see if you can reproduce it with that. If not, you may want to use gdb to
> trace the issue (R -d gdb) - it could be R or some library you're using ...
> If you want us to look int that, you'd have to provide exact details on how
> you compiled that R (compiler versions, configure flags etc.).
>
> Cheers,
> 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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