NOT YET SOLVED: Re: [R] Error in postscript(....)

[Marcus Eger]

Is there a way to circumvent the problem or to solve it? I'd be very
glad to find a solution...
   M. Eger

> Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> > > Error in postscript(file = paste(getpath(file), getfname(file),
> > > as.character(num),  :
> > >       X11 fatal IO error: please save work and shut down R
> >
> > Argh. I think I saw a version of this on a laptop I borrowed in early
> > December and forgot about it when I couldn't reproduce the effect on
> > my other systems. I had it debugged far enough to see that it was
> > sending the main R loop into a spin where it was seemingly receiving
> > an X event but never handling it.
> >
> > What did you do to deserve having your machine do this to you? Shutting
> > down an X11 window with "destroy" triggered the effect in my case. It
> > might be window manager dependent snce I've only ever seen it under
> > FVWM2.
> 
> Yes, I 've got FVWM2 installed, but - as far as I know - I did not
> destroy
> any window or caused a similar event - though I am not totally sure.
> The R process ran inside xemacs (21.2) with ESS on another debian
> machine (2.2) via secure shell.

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