update: something was wrong with my Cairo package (not sure what) such that every call to CairoPDF() was crashing. re-installing Cairo solved the problem. Sorry to have troubled you. -- dan
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 09:25, Dan McCloy <[email protected]> wrote: > reproduced within RKWard, and similar crash when R run in the terminal (with > slightly different error message, see below). I'll contact Simon. thanks. > > *** caught segfault *** > address (nil), cause 'memory not mapped' > > Traceback: > 1: strwidth(legend, units = "user", cex = cex) > 2: legend("topleft", legend = leg, bty = "n", inset = 0.02, cex = 0.75) > > Possible actions: > 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled) > 2: normal R exit > 3: exit R without saving workspaceg > 4: exit R saving workspace > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 04:55, Thomas Friedrichsmeier > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Sunday 06 November 2011, Dan McCloy wrote: >> > What I was doing at the time: >> > >> > Had just been tweaking a set of seven graphs to plot in a 4x2 layout >> > using >> > par(mfcol=). The graphs were fairly simple scatterplots with Lowess >> > curves. I had gotten all the axes and cex values to where I wanted >> > them, >> > and closed the X11 graph window and ran the whole set of graph commands >> > again with a CairoPDF() and dev.off() wrapper. That's when the crash >> > occurred. The PDF was initialized but remains at zero bytes. The >> > specific >> > code is included as an attachment. Note that I had the following >> > packages >> > loaded: Cairo, Hmisc. >> >> [...] >> >> > let me know if i can be of further help in tracking down the source of >> > this >> > error. >> >> thanks for your detailed bug report. >> >> I don't have the data objects needed to run the example. I inserted some >> dummy >> plots, instead, but that did not cuase any problems. >> >> This crash might have been RKWard's fault, or it might have been a crash >> inside Cairo. Since, as far as I understand, no on-screen device was >> active at >> the time, I believe it is rather likely to be the latter. >> >> Here are some things for you to test: >> - If you run the same code again, does the crash happen, again? >> - If you run the same code in a "plain" R session on the terminal, what >> happens? >> >> If you can reproduce the bug, *and* you can also reproduce it in a >> terminal R >> session, then I suggest to report the bug to the maintainer of the Cairo >> package (Simon Urbanek). If you can reproduce the bug, but only inside >> RKWard, >> it would be very helpful, if you could send me the data objects. >> >> If you cannot reproduce the bug, then unfortunately, there is not much >> anybody >> can do about it. >> >> Regards >> Thomas > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel
