[Rd] MacOS parallel::makeCluster fails

[Dominik Leutnant]

Hi all,

The call parallel::makeCluster(1L) hangs infinitely on my MacOS machine which seems to be already reported by some people (e.g., https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2018-February/075565.html).
However, the solutions posted on SO, GH or R-devel do not work in my case.

So far, I unsuccessfully tested …

  1.  Couple of reboots
  2.  Adding 192.0.0.1 to /etc/hosts
  3.  Using R.app instead of RStudio.app
  4.  Turn off the firewall

Following Hendriks advice, “cl <- future::makeClusterPSOCK(1L, verbose = TRUE, timeout = 60)” gives (note: without adding the timeout parameter, R just hangs):
> Sys.setenv(LANGUAGE='en')
> cl <- future::makeClusterPSOCK(1L, verbose = TRUE, timeout = 60)
[local output] Workers: [n = 1] ‘localhost’
[local output] Base port: 11867
[local output] Creating node 1 of 1 ...
[local output] - setting up node
Testing if worker's PID can be inferred: ‘'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rscript' -e 'try(cat(Sys.getpid(),file="/var/folders/5s/kgm05t2s0_52gz1s445mnlgw0000gn/T//RtmpZp1RX6/future.parent=835.3434fe0c5c6.pid"), silent = TRUE)' -e "file.exists('/var/folders/5s/kgm05t2s0_52gz1s445mnlgw0000gn/T//RtmpZp1RX6/future.parent=835.3434fe0c5c6.pid')"’
- Possible to infer worker's PID: TRUE
[local output] Starting worker #1 on ‘localhost’: '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rscript' --default-packages=datasets,utils,grDevices,graphics,stats,methods -e 'try(cat(Sys.getpid(),file="/var/folders/5s/kgm05t2s0_52gz1s445mnlgw0000gn/T//RtmpZp1RX6/future.parent=835.3434fe0c5c6.pid"), silent = TRUE)' -e 'parallel:::.slaveRSOCK()' MASTER=localhost PORT=11867 OUT=/dev/null TIMEOUT=60 XDR=TRUE
[local output] - Exit code of system() call: 0
[local output] Waiting for worker #1 on ‘localhost’ to connect back
[local output] Detected a warning from socketConnection(): ‘problem in listening on this socket’
Killing worker process (PID 903) if still alive
Worker (PID 903) was successfully killed: TRUE
Error in socketConnection("localhost", port = port, server = TRUE, blocking = TRUE,  :
  Failed to launch and connect to R worker on local machine ‘localhost’ from local machine ‘Dominiks-MBP.local’.
* The error produced by socketConnection() was: ‘cannot open the connection’
* In addition, socketConnection() produced 1 warning(s):
   - Warning #1: ‘problem in listening on this socket’
* The localhost socket connection that failed to connect to the R worker used port 11867 using a communication timeout of 60 seconds and a connection timeout of 120 seconds.
* Worker launch call: '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rscript' --default-packages=datasets,utils,grDevices,graphics,stats,methods -e 'try(cat(Sys.getpid(),file="/var/folders/5s/kgm05t2s0_52gz1s445mnlgw0000gn/T//RtmpZp1RX6/future.parent=835.3434fe0c5c6.pid"), silent = TRUE)' -e 'parallel:::.slaveRSOCK()' MASTER=localhost PORT=11867 OUT=/dev/null TIMEOUT=60 XDR=TRUE.
* Worker (PID 903) was successfully killed: TRUE
* Troubleshooting suggestions:
   - Suggestion #1: Set 'outfile=NULL' to see output from worker.
In addition: Warning message:
In socketConnection("localhost", port = port, server = TRUE, blocking = TRUE,  :
  problem in listening on this socket

My session looks like:
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.5

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

Random number generation:
RNG:     Mersenne-Twister
 Normal:  Inversion
 Sample:  Rounding

locale:
[1] de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/C/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.6.0
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Any help is greatly appreciated.
Best regards
Dominik

Dr. Dominik Leutnant

Muenster University of Applied Sciences
Department of Civil Engineering
Institute for Infrastucture·Water·Resources·Environment (IWARU)
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