[R-SIG-Mac] R crashes on preferences screen

John Magnotti john.magnotti at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 02:17:37 CET 2013


I removed my current R.app and installed the one at:
http://r.research.att.com/#GUI
R-3.0-branch-snowleopard-signed.pkg

but I still get an immediate crash when I 1) open the preferences
window and 2) click any of the icons in the main "Show All" screen
(but not the tabs)

I also noticed that switching away from either the Color or the Syntax
tab briefly flashes (open then close) the color wheel selection dialog

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.2 Patched (2013-11-04 r64155)
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


Is there any other specific information that would help?

Thanks,

John

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Brandon Hurr <bhive01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> I never could reproduce what Brian, John or Ranier were seeing with my
> install (downloaded from http://r.research.att.com/ .
>
> Perhaps they could chime back in and give you more details.
>
> I'm now running Mavericks and still cannot replicate.
> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> 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
>
> Brandon
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Robert J Goedman <goedman at icloud.com>wrote:
>
>> Brandon,
>>
>> Do you still see this problem?
>>
>> Are you using Simon's build?
>>
>> Regards,
>>  Rob J. Goedman
>> goedman at icloud.com
>>
>>
>> On Jan 2, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/01/2013 17:48, Robert J Goedman wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for taking a look. I'll dig a bit further after getting back home
>> tomorrow. It only happens through 'Apple-,' and is then not limited to
>> just the Startup preferences (contrary to what I thought earlier).
>>
>>
>> There is a bug report, PR#15017, related to this that we also have not
>> been able to reproduce.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rob J. Goedman
>> goedman at icloud.com <mailto:goedman at icloud.com <goedman at icloud.com>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 1, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> <mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>>> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, cannot reproduce (with Simon's build or mine, on Lion).
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On 31/12/2012 19:37, Robert J Goedman wrote:
>>
>> Simon & Brian,
>>
>> Surely this is not high on your minds today, but I did notice an
>> issue with R.app.
>>
>> Using below versions of R-3.0 and the Lion64 version of R.app I
>> noticed that by immediately invoking the Startup preferences. e.g. by
>> Command/Apple-, R.app will segfault:
>>
>> *** caught segfault ***
>> address 0x10121d000, cause 'memory not mapped'
>> ...
>>
>> Above route seems to always create the crash. I've seen a few other
>> occurrences, always with the Startup preferences screen not being
>> mapped, but less reproducible. Same behavior in Simon's build as in
>> my own build of R.app.
>>
>> A reasonable work around is to get there through the Set Colors icon.
>> I'm on OSX8.3 preview 3 and using Xcode 4.6 dp4. And using the CRAN
>> version of R, did not yet build R myself as outlined in the Install file.
>>
>> Happy New Year, regards,
>> Rob J. Goedman
>> goedman at icloud.com <mailto:goedman at icloud.com <goedman at icloud.com>>
>>
>>
>> ------------ my own build----------------------------
>>
>> R Under development (unstable) (2012-12-30 r61489) -- "Unsuffered
>> Consequences"
>> Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>>
>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>>
>>  Natural language support but running in an English locale
>>
>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>>
>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>
>> [R.app GUI 1.53 (6418) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>>
>> [Workspace restored from /Users/rob/Projects/.RData]
>> [History restored from /Users/rob/Projects/.Rapp.history]
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R Under development (unstable) (2012-12-30 r61489)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (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
>>
>>
>> -------------R.app from
>> Simon---------------------------------------------
>>
>> R Under development (unstable) (2012-12-30 r61489) -- "Unsuffered
>> Consequences"
>> Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>>
>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>>
>>  Natural language support but running in an English locale
>>
>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>>
>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>
>> [R.app GUI 1.53 (6418) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>>
>> [Workspace restored from /Users/rob/Projects/.RData]
>> [History restored from /Users/rob/Projects/.Rapp.history]
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R Under development (unstable) (2012-12-30 r61489)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk <mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>> >
>> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 2, 2013, at 6:09 AM, Brandon Hurr <bhive01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I cannot reproduce on my mac mini (2011). OS X 10.8.5.
>>
>> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
>> 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
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:03 PM, John Magnotti <john.magnotti at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> Going to the preferences screen in R.app (Command + , or
>> R->preferences) and selecting any of the icons causes R to crash with
>> a segfault. If I click any the tabs at the top of the preferences
>> window R doesn't crash, but if I go back to the  "show all" tab and
>> choose an option it causes an immediate failure.
>>
>> I'm running OS X 10.8.5, sessionInfo pasted below
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
>> 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
>>
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