[R] R installation problems...

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Diego Kuonen <Diego at kuonen.com> writes:

> Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> > 
> > This is perplexing! Could you please try "/path/to/R -d gdb" and
> > inside gdb do
> > 
> > run  --verbose --vanilla
> > 
> > then at the point of the crash do a "bt" command and tell us what it
> > says.
> 
>   $ /usr2/R-patched/bin/R -d gdb 
>   GNU gdb 4.17
>   ...
>   (gdb) run  --verbose --vanilla
>   Starting program: /usr2/R-patched/bin/R.bin --verbose --vanilla
>   R : Copyright 2001, The R Development Core Team
>   Version 1.2.0 Patched (2001-01-09)
>   ...
>   now dyn.load(/usr2/R-patched/library/ctest/libs/ctest.so)..
>   >R_ReplConsole(): before "for(;;)" {main.c}
> 
>   Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>   0x4011e1d1 in _IO_fflush (fp=0x401cce60) at iofflush.c:41
>   iofflush.c:41: No such file or directory.
>   (gdb) bt
>   #0  0x4011e1d1 in _IO_fflush (fp=0x401cce60) at iofflush.c:41
>   #1  0x4004e738 in rl_prep_terminal ()
>   #2  0x4005835b in _rl_callback_newline ()
>   #3  0x400583c1 in rl_callback_handler_install ()
>   #4  0x80ec24e in Rstd_ReadConsole (prompt=0x81e3c00 "> ", buf=0xbfffec90 "", 

Aha. I think you need to look at your readline library installation.
Can you run R --no-readline ?

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