[R-SIG-Mac] x11/plot issue on Mac OSX

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jan 23, 2013, at 8:23 PM, m p wrote:

> running under dbg I get what's below. Any suggestions on that?

It seems like you may have some broken Homebrew build of R or the components. Please try the CRAN R binary with Apple's X11.

Cheers,
Simon

> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> Reading symbols for shared libraries ......................warni g: Could
> not find object file "/private/tmp/homebrew-libffi-3.0.
> 1-5bwq/libffi-3.0.11/x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.2/src/.libs/prep_ci .o" - no
> debug information available for "../src/prep_cif.c".
> 
> warning: Could not find object file "/private/tmp/homebrew-libff
> -3.0.11-5bwq/libffi-3.0.11/x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.2/src/.libs/t pes.o" -
> no debug information available for "../src/types.c".
> 
> warning: Could not find object file "/private/tmp/homebrew-libff
> -3.0.11-5bwq/libffi-3.0.11/x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.2/src/.libs/r w_api.o" -
> no debug information available for "../src/raw_api.c"
> 
> warning: Could not find object file "/private/tmp/homebrew-libff
> -3.0.11-5bwq/libffi-3.0.11/x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.2/src/.libs/j
> va_raw_api.o" - no debug information available for "../src/java_ aw_api.c".
> warning: Could not find object file "/private/tmp/homebrew-libff
> -3.0.11-5bwq/libffi-3.0.11/x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.2/src/.libs/c osures.o"
> - no debug information available for "../src/closures.c".
> 
> warning: Could not find object file
> "/private/tmp/homebrew-libffi-3.0.11-5bwq/libffi-3.0.11/x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.2/src/x86/.libs/ffi64.o"
> - no debug information available for "../src/x86/ffi64.c".
> 
> .................. done
> 
> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
> Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x0000000000000010
> 0x00000001052553a7 in cairo_get_target ()
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:
> 
>> On 23/01/2013 02:40, m p wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> I have R running on my Mac OSX 10.7.5 under X11 and when I interactively
>>> in
>>> R issue x11() and plot(..) it exits with messages below.
>>> I can display multiple image formats including xwd.
>>> Is that fixable under X11, how?
>>> 
>> 
>> What do you think seq(1:10) does?  Add pointless typing strokes ....
>> 
>> This works on my machine: that suggests the problem is with the X11 setup
>> on your machine, maybe missing fonts given the traceback.  Please run this
>> under a debugger to find out more.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>> Mark
>>> 
>>> R> x <- seq(1:10)
>>> R> y <- seq(1:10)
>>> R> plot(x,y)
>>> 
>>> *** caught segfault ***
>>> address 0x10, 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(x, y)
>>>  6: plot(x, y)
>>> 
>>> Possible actions:
>>> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
>>> 2: normal R exit
>>> 3: exit R without saving workspace
>>> 4: exit R saving workspace
>>> 
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