[R-sig-Debian] mclapply Segmentation Fault for Ubuntu

[Michael Rutter]

On 03/27/2014 07:19 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Dario Strbenac
> <dstr7320 at uni.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
>> Running the example in the documentation causes R to crash.
>>
>> dario at bioinfo:~$ R
>>
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>>> library(parallel)
>>> simplify2array(mclapply(rep(4, 5), rnorm))
>>
>>   *** caught segfault ***
>> address 0x7fee2a7229d0, cause 'memory not mapped'

I had the same error on my machine when I tested this.  The problem was 
fixed by removing the package libopenblas-base that I made available on 
my RDev PPA.  My first attempt will be to update those packages and see 
if that solves the problem.

Michael
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