Are you using gcc 4.3?

I encountered similar problem before,

I haven't meet same problem after using gcc 4.4

(I don't know the actual cause yet)

Or you can use ATLAS, which is sightly less efficient, but it is very
stable.

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Ted Rosenbaum <ted.rosenbaum@yale.edu>wrote:

> Hi,
> i have been running R 2.11 compiles with the goto blas libraries
> successfully for about a year.  I am running Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit.
> However, recently I have been periodically getting a segfault when running
> R
> (and numpy -- also compiled against goto blas).
> When I check the dmesg error log I get the following message
> R[28792]: segfault at 7f4183ed4000 ip 00007f4196f05f03 sp 00007f4192d55d20
> error 6 in libgoto2.so[7f4196b73000+996000]
>
> I ran memtest on my computer -- and everything was fine there.  I also
> tried
> recompiling goto blas and running the tests -- and everything is fine
> there.
> Finally, I recompiled R (upgrading to 2.12) and I am still getting the same
> error.
>
> I appreciate insights that anyone has as to what could be going on.
> Thanks,
> Ted Rosenbaum
>
> Graduate Student
> Department of Economics
> Yale University
>
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