[Rd] repeatable segfault - on Mac

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
>>>>>     on Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:33:23 -0400 writes:

    > On Sep 8, 2011, at 4:01 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:

    >>>>>>> David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
    >>>>>>> on Tue, 6 Sep 2011 00:38:13 -0400 writes:
    >> 
    >>> I can reproduce:
    >>> eigen(crossprod(matrix(1:2000, 50)) + (0+0i), T, T)
    >> 
    >>> *** caught segfault ***
    >>> address 0x102d0e028, cause 'memory not mapped'
    >> 
    >>> Traceback:
    >>> 1: .Call("La_rs_cmplx", x, only.values, PACKAGE = "base")
    >>> 2: eigen(crossprod(matrix(1:2000, 50)) + (0 + (0+0i)), T, T)
    >>> ##---- after restart
    >>>> sessionInfo()
    >>> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
    >>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
    >> 
    >>> locale:
    >>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
    >> 
    >>> attached base packages:
    >>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
    >> 
    >>> With OSX 10.5.8
    >> 
    >>> Also happens with 32 bit R
    >>> [R.app GUI 1.41 (5874) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0]
    >> 
    >> It does not happen on Linux (different versions) 
    >> nor Windows (2.13.1 patched, early August).
    >> 
    >> As this is calling LAPACK code,
    >> I guess that this is yet another case where the Mac version
    >> of optimized BLAS / LAPACK is playing wrongly.
    >> 

    > Nope, this is R's BLAS / LAPACK! 

yes, it seems, as Peter is confirming as well.

*BUT* as far as we currently know, the problem was never seen 
outside of MacOS X , right?

Martin Maechler

    >>> David Winsemius
    >> 
    >>> On Sep 6, 2011, at 12:12 AM, robin hankin wrote:
    >> 
    >>>> Hi.  macosx 10.6.8
    >>>> 
    >>>> With R-2.13.1 and also revision 56948 I get the following repeatable
    >>>> segfault:
    >>>> 
    >>>> 
    >>>> 
    >>>> wt118:~% R --vanilla --quiet
    >>>>> R.Version()
    >>>> $platform
    >>>> [1] "x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0"
    >>>> 
    >>>> $arch
    >>>> [1] "x86_64"
    >>>> 
    >>>> $os
    >>>> [1] "darwin9.8.0"
    >>>> 
    >>>> $system
    >>>> [1] "x86_64, darwin9.8.0"
    >>>> 
    >>>> $status
    >>>> [1] ""
    >>>> 
    >>>> $major
    >>>> [1] "2"
    >>>> 
    >>>> $minor
    >>>> [1] "13.1"
    >>>> 
    >>>> $year
    >>>> [1] "2011"
    >>>> 
    >>>> $month
    >>>> [1] "07"
    >>>> 
    >>>> $day
    >>>> [1] "08"
    >>>> 
    >>>> $`svn rev`
    >>>> [1] "56322"
    >>>> 
    >>>> $language
    >>>> [1] "R"
    >>>> 
    >>>> $version.string
    >>>> [1] "R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)"
    >>>> 
    >>>>> eigen(crossprod(matrix(1:2000, 50)) + (0+0i), T, T)
    >>>> 
    >>>> *** caught segfault ***
    >>>> address 0x1038000a8, cause 'memory not mapped'
    >>>> 
    >>>> Traceback:
    >>>> 1: .Call("La_rs_cmplx", x, only.values, PACKAGE = "base")
    >>>> 2: eigen(crossprod(matrix(1:2000, 50)) + (0 + (0+0i)), T, T)
    >>>> 
    >>>> Possible actions:
    >>>> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
    >>>> 2: normal R exit
    >>>> 3: exit R without saving workspace
    >>>> 4: exit R saving workspace
    >>>> Selection: 2
    >>>> wt118:~%
    >>>> 
    >>>> 
    >>>> 
    >>>> 
    >>>> 
    >>>> -- 
    >>>> Robin Hankin
    >>>> Uncertainty Analyst
    >>>> hankin.robin at gmail.com
    >>>> 
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    >> 
    >>> David Winsemius, MD
    >>> Heritage Laboratories
    >>> West Hartford, CT
    >> 
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