[Bioc-devel] segfault when building in veracruz2 for BioC 3.5

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

Dear All,

A package I maintain, ADaCGH2, is failing to build in veracruz2 with a
segfault that seems to happen when plotting (in a call to plotting that
happens inside a mclapply)

http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/ADaCGH2/veracruz2-buildsrc.html


these are some of the lines of the traceback:

Traceback:
 1: dev.hold()
 2: plot.default(c(2925836, 5135683.5, 6415674.5, 7169722, 9715199, 13220514.5, 15307852, 41589471, 44534348, 47975338, 52729020, 54225865, 54970734, 55406435.5, 57169693.5, 57359284.5, 66362289.5, 69947314.5, 72243027.5, 75218239, 75268559.5, 75683700, 76272391, 76901797, 77282738, 83724180, 88707195.5, 89536816.5, 102463647.5, 104082964, 107610854, 108945724, 120577571, 122947762.5, 124680401, 129086592, 144839226, 148940008.5, 154240128.5, 155887373.5, 178034441.5, 184199138, 184552484), c(0.397, 0.002, -0.179, -0.1385, -0.095, -0.611, -0.165, -0.54, -0.358, 0.172, -0.2435, -0.044, -0.048, 0.078, -0.344, -0.139, -0.513, -0.681, -0.406, 0.083, -0.325, -0.186, -0.138, 0.393, -0.075, -0.655, 0.123, -0.346, -0.099, -0.3465, 0.463, -0.18, -0.101, -0.175, -0.101, 0.371, -0.642, -0.13, -0.33, -0.491, 0.138, -0.187, 0.21), ylab = "log ratio",     xlab = quote("Chromosomal location"), col = c("orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange"), cex = 1,     axes = FALSE, main = quote("Chr4 at L.1"), pch = 20)
 3: plot(c(2925836, 5135683.5, 6415674.5, 7169722, 9715199, 13220514.5, 15307852, 41589471, 44534348, 47975338, 52729020, 54225865, 54970734, 55406435.5, 57169693.5, 57359284.5, 66362289.5, 69947314.5, 72243027.5, 75218239, 75268559.5, 75683700, 76272391, 76901797, 77282738, 83724180, 88707195.5, 89536816.5, 102463647.5, 104082964, 107610854, 108945724, 120577571, 122947762.5, 124680401, 129086592, 144839226, 148940008.5, 154240128.5, 155887373.5, 178034441.5, 184199138, 184552484), c(0.397, 0.002, -0.179, -0.1385, -0.095, -0.611, -0.165, -0.54, -0.358, 0.172, -0.2435, -0.044, -0.048, 0.078, -0.344, -0.139, -0.513, -0.681, -0.406, 0.083, -0.325, -0.186, -0.138, 0.393, -0.075, -0.655, 0.123, -0.346, -0.099, -0.3465, 0.463, -0.18, -0.101, -0.175, -0.101, 0.371, -0.642, -0.13, -0.33, -0.491, 0.138, -0.187, 0.21), ylab = "log ratio", xlab = quote("Chromosomal location"),     col = c("orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange", "orange",     "orange", "orange"), cex = 1, axes = FALSE, main = quote("Chr4 at L.1"),     pch = 20)
 4: do.call(funname, c(list(mf[[i]], y, ylab = yl, xlab = xl), dots))



It seems that what triggers the problem is an innocuous plot.default
followed by dev.hold? (none of which I call explicitly in my code)


At least another package, arrayQualityMetrics seems to experience a
somewhat similar problem:

http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/arrayQualityMetrics/veracruz2-buildsrc.html

where, again, an apparently innocuous plot.default followed by dev.hold
triggers a segfault (and there is no mclapply here)

Traceback:
 1: dev.hold()
 2: plot.default(-2, -1, pch = "", xlim = range(-1, (dim(mns)[2])),     ylim = range(min(as.vector(mns)) - 1, max(as.vector(mns)) +         1), xlab = "5' <-----> 3'\n Probe Number ", ylab = ylab,     axes = FALSE, main = "RNA degradation plot", ...)
 3: plot(-2, -1, pch = "", xlim = range(-1, (dim(mns)[2])), ylim = range(min(as.vector(mns)) -     1, max(as.vector(mns)) + 1), xlab = "5' <-----> 3'\n Probe Number ",     ylab = ylab, axes = FALSE, main = "RNA degradation plot",     ...)
 4: plotAffyRNAdeg(AffyRNAdeg(expressionset, log.it = TRUE), lwd = 1,     cols = x$arrayColors)




I am not sure how to proceed here. Any suggestions?


Thanks,


R.

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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
28029 Madrid
Spain

Phone: +34-91-497-2412

Email: rdiaz02 at gmail.com
       ramon.diaz at iib.uam.es

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