[R-sig-Debian] Segfault on ubuntu 18.04

[Göran Broström]

Den 2018-07-06 kl. 17:43, skrev Henrik Bengtsson:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 8:18 AM Göran Broström <goran.brostrom using umu.se>
> wrote:
>>
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>> Den 2018-07-06 kl. 16:28, skrev Dirk Eddelbuettel:
>>>
>>> On 6 July 2018 at 12:31, Enrico Schumann wrote: | Just as one
>>> more datapoint: I cannot reproduce the segfault, with | R 3.5.1
>>> on (L)Ubuntu 18.04. (I use the Ubuntu package, i.e. I did not |
>>> build from source.)
>>>
>>> I have been a little too busy and have not yet upgraded to 18.04
>>> so I can't attempt to replicate -- but it _looks_ just like a
>>> garden variety binary mismatch.
>>>
>>> We _know_ R 3.5.* requires _all_ binary packages to be
>>> reinstalled and it is easy to miss one.  So unless Göran shows us
>>> a generally reproducible bug I will suspect that this is simply a
>>> local deployment issue.
>>
>> I suspect that too, since the segfault does _not_ occur if run  R
>> via RStudio. _But_, I have run 'update.packages(checkBuilt =
>> TRUE)', and that should take care of reinstalling, right?
>>
>> Maybe it somehow is an issue with devtools::install_github.
>
> If you follow the error traceback (from the bottom of the stack to
> the top), the most recent package involved is 'curl'.  It appears
> that the segfault occurs when it is loaded.  You probably get the
> same if you attempt:
>
> library(curl)

Thanks for the suggestion, but that doesn't crash anything.

> in a fresh R session.  If so, as Dirk suggests:
>
>> We _know_ R 3.5.* requires _all_ binary packages to be reinstalled
>> and it is easy to miss one.
>
> make sure to reinstall 'curl'.  If that solves it, it's likely that
> other packages have the same issue, so you probably want to start
> from a clean slate and wipe your current package library, e.g.
> unlink(.libPaths()[1], recursive = TRUE).

Maybe I should do that anyway.

Göran

>
> /Henrik
>
>>
>> Göran
>>
>>> Dirk
>>>
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