[R-SIG-Mac] rgl crashes after one successful draw on R.app

[Roger Koenker]

no,  I never get a window....  I get an immediate segfault as soon as
rgl.open() is called.


url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
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On May 29, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Robert J Goedman wrote:

> Roger,
> 
> Do you ever see an rgl window pop-up? Just wondering if this is the same issue.
> 
> Rob J. Goedman
> goedman at icloud.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 29, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Roger Koenker <rkoenker at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I doubt that this is helpful, but I get:
>> 
>>> rgl.open()
>> Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
>> 
>> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
>> Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x00000000000000e8
>> 0x0000000102e31a90 in gui::X11GUIFactory::createWindowImpl (this=0x1006871d0, 
>>    window=0x7fff5fbfd330) at x11gui.cpp:612
>> 612  ::Window xparent = RootWindow(xdisplay, DefaultScreen(xdisplay));
>> (gdb) Quit
>> 
>> url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
>> email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
>> vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
>> fax:       217-244-6678                Urbana, IL 61801
>> 
>> On May 29, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> 
>>> On 13-05-29 11:19 AM, Bryan Hanson wrote:
>>>> [originally on R-help, reposted here as the most relevent place]
>>>> 
>>>> NOTE: problem is with R.app, looks OK on command line R
>>>> 
>>>> This is really odd, and probably 100% local to me, but I'm at a loss as to a next step.
>>>> 
>>>> After narrowing things down, here's how to reproduce:
>>> 
>>> I don't see it, but it looks to me like it may be a timing problem.  I'm 
>>> guessing the destruction of the old window triggers events in the wrong 
>>> order and leaves rgl in an unstable state.  Unfortunately, without being 
>>> able to reproduce this, it looks really hard to track down.  Can anyone 
>>> reproduce it while running in gdb or some other debugger?
>>> 
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> library("rgl")
>>>> showSomething <- function() {
>>>> open3d()
>>>> points3d(rnorm(10),rnorm(10),rnorm(10))
>>>> axes3d()
>>>> title3d('main','sub','xlab','ylab','zlab')
>>>> }
>>>> showSomething() # works as expected.
>>>> # Close the current rgl window
>>>> showSomething() # crashes R with the following report:
>>>> 
>>>> *** caught segfault ***
>>>> address 0x0, cause 'unknown'
>>>> 
>>>> Traceback:
>>>> 1: .C(rgl_dev_open, success = FALSE)
>>>> 2: rgl.open()
>>>> 3: open3d()
>>>> 4: showSomething()
>>>> 
>>>> This will probably work fine for any of you, it's so simple and fundamental.  If I don't close the open rgl windows, it doesn't crash, and I can execute the function over and over successfully.  And the same thing happens if I just do the commands inside the function individually.  SessionInfo() below.
>>>> 
>>>> Perhaps something is corrupt with my X11 window system?  Thanks, Bryan
>>>> 
>>>> R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
>>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (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
>>>> 
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] rgl_0.93.940 sos_1.3-5    brew_1.0-6
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