[R-sig-Debian] Problems with CRAN package rgl

[Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen]

see below.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 08:05, Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 10:15 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>
>> On 17 November 2010 at 17:48, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>> | sorry, forgot the following:
>> |
>> | > sessionInfo()
>> | R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>> | Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-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] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>> | [8] base
>> |
>> | other attached packages:
>> |  [1] catspec_0.95         anacor_1.0-1         car_2.0-6
>> |  [4] survival_2.35-8      nnet_7.3-1           MASS_7.3-8
>> |  [7] colorspace_1.0-1     fda_2.2.5            zoo_1.6-4
>> | [10] scatterplot3d_0.3-31 rgl_0.92.794
>> |
>> | loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> | [1] fortunes_1.4-0  grid_2.12.0     lattice_0.19-13 tools_2.12.0
>> | >
>> |
>> | kjetil
>> |
>> | On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 17:25, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
>> | <kjetil1001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> | > Hola!
>> | >
>> | > I am on debian squeeze, R-2.12.0 compiled from source running fine.
>>
>> Why?  CRAN has prebuild current binaries.
>>
>> | > I have installed rgl from source, installation proceeds without any messages,
>>
>> Why? We have a prebuilt binary package.
>>
>> | > but trying to load it with
>> | > library(rgl)
>> | > I get:
>> | > Warning messages:
>> | > 1: In rgl.init(initValue) : RGL: GLX extension missing on server
>> | > 2: In fun(...) : error in rgl_init
>> | >
>> | > What is missing?
>>
>> Google for the error message. Your graphocs card is not configured for GL
>> making the whole point of rgl a little ... difficult.
>
> This would be one possibility, indeed. Though X has become rather sophisticated
> about auto-detecting GL which would make we wonder a bit. I presume that
> some library is missing.
>
> Is the game neverball working for you? Does that install libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1
> or is it allready installed? What about BALLview, does that start?

I installed ballview with synaptic. It starts up, shows a screen, and
then disappears.

dmesg | tail contains:

[ 4410.631340] gnome-screensav[10833]: segfault at 4 ip
00007f5664f8ccae sp 00007fff0c29f9a0 error 4 in
libGL.so.1.2[7f5664f32000+ae000]
[ 6108.549381] BALLView[13892]: segfault at 4 ip 00007fc4ea43dcae sp
00007fffd6523190 error 4 in libGL.so.1.2[7fc4ea3e3000+ae000]
[ 6120.561160] BALLView[13916]: segfault at 4 ip 00007fd368fc2cae sp
00007fffe979da50 error 4 in libGL.so.1.2[7fd368f68000+ae000]

(this is debian amd64)

kjetil

( I tried twice as can be seen)

>
> Please give those programs a try and if they work then try rgl again. If the
> error persists then this will certainly cause some head scratching. If not,
> then the dependencies are incomplete.
>
> Best,
>
> Steffen
>
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