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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jan 23, 2013, at 8:37 PM, m p wrote:

> can't find anything specific for Apple's  X11 on CRAN. Would that be
> 
> R-2.15.2.pkg<http://streaming.stat.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx/R-2.15.2.pkg>
> (latest
> version)
> MD5-hash: 8935aaa6c90e522e7b1da487c50e0d3c
> (ca. 64MB)*R 2.15.2* binary for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and higher, signed
> package. Contains R 2.15.2 framework, R.app GUI 1.53 in 32-bit and 64-bit
> for Intel Macs. The above file is an Installer package which can be
> installed by double-clicking. Depending on your browser, you may need to
> press the control key and click on this link to download the file.
> 

Yes, that is the CRAN binary or R, but from your report you're using something else from Homebrew and that is likely what breaks. How exactly do you run X11 and R? Did you install anything from sources? Do you override any DYLD_* environment variables?

Cheers,
Simon


> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Simon Urbanek
> <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>wrote:
> 
>> 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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