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

[Roger Koenker]

Rob,

Well, that was easy....  I upgraded to XQuartz 2.7.4  and now can run example(rgl) 
and also close the windows that are created. ;-).  Many thanks!

Roger

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 5:41 PM, Robert J Goedman wrote:

> Roger,
> 
> Not sure if that would fix it, but my system is the patched R.3.0.1, using XQuartz 2.7.4 and a slightly newer version of rgl (rgl_0.93.940).
> 
> Rob J. Goedman
> goedman at icloud.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 29, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Roger Koenker <rkoenker at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
>> fax:       217-244-6678                Urbana, IL 61801
>> 
>> 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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