[R] RGL crashes

[Duncan Murdoch]

Rainer M Krug wrote:
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> Hi
> 
> rgl crashes my R session, when resizing the rgl graphic window.
> 
> I am using Ubuntu Maversick, with dual monitor setup. If I disconnect
> one monitor, I can resize it "a little bit", but it still craches if I
> enlarge it to much.
> 
> I assume that the problem has to do with allocated graphic memory in the
> kernel, but why is R crashing completely, and not evn giving the usual
> crash options?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rainer
> 
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
> 
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C             LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] rgl_0.92.794
>> version
>                _
> platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i686
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          12.0
> year           2010
> month          10
> day            15
> svn rev        53317
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> 
> After executing
> 
> library(rgl)
> example(rgl)
> 
> and resizing the graph window, R crashes witrh the following message:
> 
> drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command
> stream. See dmesg for more info.
> 
> from dmesg:
> 
> [ 7349.471959] [drm:r100_cs_track_check] *ERROR* [drm] Buffer too small
> for color buffer 0 (need 413696 have 262144) !
> [ 7349.471964] [drm:r100_cs_track_check] *ERROR* [drm] color buffer 0
> (256 4 0 404)
> [ 7349.471967] [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Invalid command stream !

Those messages look like they're coming from your graphics driver, not 
from R.  So rgl may be doing something it shouldn't do, but you'll 
probably have to diagnose what that is.  It's unlikely to be 
reproducible on another system.

Duncan Murdoch

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