[R-SIG-Mac] Lion and X11

[Martin Renner]

I tried CRAN R again, and could NOT reproduce this error, at least not this time. Maybe I inadvertently used my own compiled version last time I tried CRAN R.  I may try the folks at homebrew to trace this issue. Thank you so much to everybody who chimed in. 

Cheers,
Martin



On 28 Jan 2012, at 20:35 , Simon Urbanek wrote:

> Martin,
> 
> On Jan 28, 2012, at 9:31 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 28, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Martin Renner wrote:
>> 
>>> Thank you to everybody who replied! Simon, on my machine, I can reproduce this segfault every time using these steps:
>>> 
>>> - open Terminal.app (or iTerm or Aquamacs), start R --vanilla  (RStudio, or R.app)
>>> in R:   
>>> - x11()   (in Terminal, my R defaults to x11, without me doing anything; in R.app or RStudio, I call x11() to reproduce this segfault. 
>>> - plot (1:10) or any other plotting command. 
>> 
>> Can you send us your sessionInfo(), please?
>> 
> 
> Never mind - you did in your first e-mail. But from that info it is clear that you're not using CRAN R, so I fear we can't really help you since this problem is specific to your own R build. You should try the R release on CRAN to see if you can reproduce it with that. If not, you may want to use gdb to trace the issue (R -d gdb) - it could be R or some library you're using ... If you want us to look int that, you'd have to provide exact details on how you compiled that R (compiler versions, configure flags etc.).
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> I am not aware of any other conscious or subconscious steps I'm taking. Plotting to quartz() or pdf() works fine. My .bashrc sets R_LIBS and the usual additions to the default PATH, nothing that should affect R or x11. Since I haven't heard back a flood of people saying, 'yes, me too', I suspect, this issue is specific to my setup. I've tried clearing out any preference files related to x11, to no affect. When calling plot (1:10), I get a new x11 graphics window, ten circles and an x-axis with tick-marks, and a segfault. No box(), no y-axis. There's no .Rprofile in my home directory. Are there any other preference files that could be corrupted? 
>>> 
>>> My display variable looks fine, so Christian seems to have a different issue than me. 
>>>> Sys.getenv ("DISPLAY")
>>> [1] "/tmp/launch-EepjEz/org.x:0"
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 28 Jan 2012, at 10:17 , Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Martin,
>>>> 
>>>> can you specify more precisely what you're doing? Issuing the code you sent would use Quartz, so apparently you're doing other things that you didn't mention - so can you share those so we can try to reproduce it?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Simon
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Martin Renner wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is anybody else experiencing problems with X11 and R under Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)? If yes, maybe it's not specific to my machine. R segfaults when I try to plot to a X11 device, e.g. open R in the terminal and calling   
>>>>>> plot (1:10)
>>>>> (see below). Plotting to a quartz device works fine. I'm using R-2.14.1 (see below), compiled from source using homebrew. I've seen the same issue with the CRAN binaries, with a vanilla compile from source of R-2.14.1 and even with an old R-2.9.2. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I wonder whether I'd have to wait for a fix from Apple, or whether there's a work-around like something that can be done during configuration? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Martin
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> plot (1:10)
>>>>> 
>>>>> *** caught segfault ***
>>>>> address 0x0, cause 'memory not mapped'
>>>>> 
>>>>> Traceback:
>>>>> 1: axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...)
>>>>> 2: Axis.default(...)
>>>>> 3: Axis(...)
>>>>> 4: localAxis(if (is.null(y)) xy$x else x, side = 1, ...)
>>>>> 5: plot.default(1:10)
>>>>> 6: plot(1:10)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
>>>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin11.2.0 (64-bit)
>>>>> 
>>>>> locale:
>>>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>>> 
>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
>>>>>> 
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