[R] grDevices segfault when building R4.4.0 on RHEL 9.1.

[Ivan Krylov]

Dear Miguel Esteva,

I couldn't get a Red Hat "ubi9" container to install enough
dependencies to build R. Is there a way to reproduce your setup on a
virtual machine somewhere?

On Fri, 3 May 2024 00:42:43 +0000
Miguel Esteva via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:

>  *** caught segfault ***
> 
> address 0x1801fa8f70, cause 'memory not mapped'
> 
> 
> Traceback:
> 
>  1: solve.default(rgb)

This seems to crash inside the BLAS. Which BLAS are you using? Any
custom ./configure arguments? Which compilers are you running?

To find out more information about the crash, try to follow it with a
debugger. Change directory to src/library/grDevices and run:

_R_COMPILE_PKGS_=1 R_COMPILER_SUPPRESS_ALL=1 \
 R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL LC_ALL=C \
../../../bin/R -d gdb --vanilla --no-echo -e \
 'tools:::makeLazyLoading("grDevices")'

(This assumes building straight from the source directory. Adjust the
paths if you're using a separate build directory.)

Use the "run" command to start the process. One you see a crash, use
"backtrace" to see the state of the call stack at the place of the
crash, or "backtrace full" to include the contents of local variables.
The first few entries are probably the most important ones.

Not sure what to do with this information yet, but it might provide
more clues.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan