[Rd] is.vector() gives error (PR#7288)

[Jeffrey Horner]

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
[...]
> The other possibility is that you're tickling a low-level, system
> dependent bug in the evaluator. Can anyone reproduce this?
> 

I'm running up against this when embedding libR.so into apache2. 
Whenever I call Rf_initEmbeddedR(), I get the following message:

Error in lazyLoadDBfetch(key, datafile, compressed, envhook) :
         recursive default argument reference a

and then apache2 segfaults when it tries to run R_tryEval(). It happens 
with R-2.0.0 and R-patched_2004-11-05, but not with R-1.9.1.

Here's the code that I'm running in apache2:
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/* initialization code for apache process */
static void mod_R_register_hooks (apr_pool_t *p)
{
     char *argv[] = {"mod_R", "--gui=none", "--slave", "--silent", 
"--vanilla","--no-readline"};
     int argc = sizeof(argv)/sizeof(argv[0]);

     ap_hook_handler(mod_R_method_handler, NULL, NULL, APR_HOOK_MIDDLE);

     Rf_initEmbeddedR(argc, argv);

     R_Outputfile = NULL;       /* stdout */
     /* R_Consolefile = NULL; */ /* stderr */

     ptr_R_WriteConsole = Rscript_WriteConsole; /* stdout goes to browser */

}
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And then for every http request...
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static SEXP R_source_fun;
static SEXP R_source_arg;

static int mod_R_method_handler (request_rec *r)
{

     SEXP val, expr;
     int errorOccurred;

     // Only handle if correct handler
     if (strcmp(r->handler,"application/x-httpd-r")){
         return DECLINED;
     }

     // Setup CGI
     ap_add_common_vars(r);
     ap_add_cgi_vars(r);

     ap_set_content_type(r,"text/html");
     rapache_current_req = r;

     /* Call source(r->filename) */
     /* Setup source() function call */

     /* function */
     R_source_fun = Rf_findFun(Rf_install("source"), R_GlobalEnv);
     PROTECT(R_source_fun);

     /* argument */
     PROTECT(R_source_arg = NEW_CHARACTER(1));
     SET_STRING_ELT(R_source_arg, 0, COPY_TO_USER_STRING(r->filename));

     /* expression */
     PROTECT(expr = allocVector(LANGSXP,2));
     SETCAR(expr,R_source_fun);
     SETCAR(CDR(expr),R_source_arg);

     errorOccurred=1;
     val = R_tryEval(expr,NULL,&errorOccurred);
     if (errorOccurred){

         // Send a message to stderr (apache redirects this to the error 
log)
         fprintf(stderr,"apache2_mod_R: source(%s) failed: 
%x!\n",r->filename,val);
     }
     UNPROTECT(3);

     return OK;
}

The above code works fine with R-2.0.0, R-patched_2004-11-05, and 
R-1.9.1 when I run it as a standalone command-line app in the following 
code and link against appropriate libR.so:

--------------------
int main(int ac, char **av){
     FILE *fd;
     ParseStatus status;
     SEXP expr, R_source_fun, R_source_arg, val;
     Rboolean ok;
     int errorOccurred;

     char *argv[] = {"mod_R", "--gui=none", "--slave", "--silent", 
"--vanilla","--no-readline"};
     int argc = sizeof(argv)/sizeof(argv[0]);

     if (ac != 2){
         printf("Usage: %s filename\n",av[0]);
         exit(1);
     }

     Rf_initEmbeddedR(argc, argv);

     /* function */
     R_source_fun = Rf_findFun(Rf_install("source"), R_GlobalEnv);
     PROTECT(R_source_fun);

     /* argument */
     PROTECT(R_source_arg = NEW_CHARACTER(1));
     SET_STRING_ELT(R_source_arg, 0, COPY_TO_USER_STRING(av[1]));

     /* expression */
     PROTECT(expr = allocVector(LANGSXP,2));
     SETCAR(expr,R_source_fun);
     SETCAR(CDR(expr),R_source_arg);

     errorOccurred=1;
     val = R_tryEval(expr,NULL,&errorOccurred);
     if (errorOccurred){

         // Send a message to stderr (apache redirects this to the error 
log)
         fprintf(stderr,"source(%s) failed: %x!\n",av[1],val);
         //fprintf(stderr,"apache2_mod_R: handler is %s\n",r->handler);
         //fprintf(stderr,"apache2_mod_R: filename is %s\n",r->filename);
     }
     UNPROTECT(3);

}
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When I run apache2 inside gdb until it segfaults:
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$ gdb apache2/bin/httpd
GNU gdb 6.1-debian
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welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
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There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...Using host libthread_db 
library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run -X
Starting program: /home/hornerjr/R_MODULE/apache2/bin/httpd -X
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 16384 (LWP 15333)]
Detaching after fork from child process 15336.
httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, 
using 160.129.129.111 for ServerName

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 15333)]
0x403dc607 in Rf_applyClosure (call=0x83eab20, op=0x8ef8b74, 
arglist=0x8ea8168, rho=0x8ef8ca8, suppliedenv=0x8a9b814) at eval.c:561
warning: Source file is more recent than executable.

561             if (R_ReturnedValue == R_RestartToken) {
(gdb) where
#0  0x403dc607 in Rf_applyClosure (call=0x83eab20, op=0x8ef8b74, 
arglist=0x8ea8168, rho=0x8ef8ca8, suppliedenv=0x8a9b814) at eval.c:561
#1  0x08ef8b74 in ?? ()
#2  0x083eab20 in ?? ()
#3  0x08ef8b74 in ?? ()
#4  0x08ea8168 in ?? ()
#5  0x08ef8ca8 in ?? ()
#6  0x08a9b814 in ?? ()
#7  0x40403ea1 in Rf_protect (s=0x86aa094) at memory.c:2068
Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
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I'm not exactly sure if it's a threading issue (I compiled apache2 
--without-threads), and httpd -X runs exactly one process, but I'll post 
as soon as I have more information...


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Jeffrey Horner       Computer Systems Analyst         School of Medicine
615-322-8606         Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University