[R] RGL crashes

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 08/12/2010 6:07 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
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> On 12/08/2010 12:05 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That's what I fear as well - could you give me any tips on how to
> proceed to identify the problem?

It might help to know which line of code in rgl actually triggered the 
error, but debugging X11 code is tricky.  The function that likely 
triggered the problem is X11WindowImpl::setWindowRect in 
rgl/src/x11gui.cpp; it makes calls to X11 functions that do the actual work.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> Rainer
>
>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
>>
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