[R-SIG-Mac] rgl crashes after one successful draw on R.app
Bryan Hanson
hanson at depauw.edu
Thu May 30 14:06:46 CEST 2013
Yes, sorry. I just confirmed (for myself) that showSomething() works just fine from command line R where it uses XQuartz ( 2.7.4) and fails from R.app. Bryan
On May 30, 2013, at 4:05 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 30/05/2013 02:27, Bryan Hanson wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I already have XQuartz 2.7.4 and it gives the problem I reported. :-( Bryan
>
> But as I said way back in this thread, there are two different rgl devices and this trhead has conflated two problems, on in each.
>
> Roger was using the X11-based version, and that seemed to be an Xquartz issue.
>
> You are using the AGL-based version in R.app, which does not use X11 AFAIK.
>
>> On May 29, 2013, at 7:16 PM, Robert J Goedman <goedman at icloud.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Great, like with Rcmdr, example(rgl) seems to work well.
>>>
>>> Repeatedly just 'example(plot3d)' and each time removing all rgl windows, will lead to the same problem Bryan mentioned this morning.
>>>
>>> Rob J. Goedman
>>> goedman at icloud.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 29, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Roger Koenker <rkoenker at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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