[R-sig-Debian] undefined symbol: sgemv_thread_n

[Göran Broström]

Den 2017-12-01 kl. 20:24, skrev Dirk Eddelbuettel:
>
> On 1 December 2017 at 19:55, Göran Broström wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | the following is a part of a question asked on R-help. I realized that
> | it is better suited for asking here. Apologies for the cross-posting!
> |
> | I'm on Ubuntu artful, and upgraded with 'apt'. Then
> |
> | ----------------------------------------------------------------
> | goran at M6800:~/src/R-3.4.3$ /usr/bin/R
> | /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R: symbol lookup error:
> | /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblas.so.3: undefined symbol: sgemv_thread_n
> | ----------------------------------------------------------------
> |
> | Never seen this before. What can I do?
>
> At home:
>
> edd at bud:~$ COLUMNS=70 dpkg -l | grep blas
> ii  libblas-common 3.7.0-1      amd64        Dependency package for all BLAS i
> ii  libblas-dev    3.7.0-1      amd64        Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines
> ii  libblas3       3.7.0-1      amd64        Basic Linear Algebra Reference im
> ii  libopenblas-ba 0.2.19-2     amd64        Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) l
> edd at bud:~$
>
> At work:
> ........ at .....:~$ COLUMNS=70 dpkg -l | grep blas
> ii  libblas-common 3.7.0-1      amd64        Dependency package for all BLAS i
> ii  libblas-dev    3.7.0-1      amd64        Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines
> ii  libblas3       3.7.0-1      amd64        Basic Linear Algebra Reference im
> ii  libcublas8.0:a 8.0.44-3     amd64        NVIDIA cuBLAS Library
> ii  libnvblas8.0:a 8.0.44-3     amd64        NVBLAS runtime library
> ii  libopenblas-ba 0.2.19-2     amd64        Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) l
> ii  libopenblas-de 0.2.19-2     amd64        Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) l
> ........ at .....:~$
>
> In other words, I tend to use standard blas or openblas or atlas (but
> seemingly less often).  Both are 17.04, but that doesn't matter as they both
> have been updated regularly over the years.
>
> You must have gotten out of whack between what compiled R, and what runs it.
> Did you by chance compile R 3.4.3 locally?

Yes, first I installed R-3.4.3 from source and it started OK, but when I 
tried

 > library(eha)

I got the error above.

So I installed by apt, and then I got the above.

This is what I always have done, installing both from source and the 
ubuntu versions via 'apt upgrade', and it has always worked without 
problems. What has changed now? And how can I get out of this?

Göran
>
> Dirk
>