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

peter dalgaard pdalgd at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 12:00:04 CET 2013 

I was just about to tell you guys that have the problem to try running R.app with gdb attached to the process. Then I realized that gdb has gone in Mavericks to be replaced by lldb, which I don't have much of a clue about how to operate....

However, at least the first few steps seem to be similar to using gdb:

Get the process ID for R.app using

Peters-iMac:~ pd$ ps aux | grep R.app
pd              28620   0.1  0.5  3877356  21724   ??  S     1Nov13   0:43.29 /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R
pd              74190   0.0  0.0  2432784    596 s005  S+   11:45AM   0:00.01 grep R.app

Then attach to it using

Peters-iMac:~ pd$ lldb -p 28620

give your password to allow the debugger to control the process, then, when lldb fires up, tell it to resume the process

(lldb) continue
Process 28620 resuming

Next, you should try doing whatever it takes to reproduce the crash, figure out how to get a traceback, and report back to the list.

-pd

On 07 Nov 2013, at 10:19 , Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:

> I have to confirm both, the crash and the flashing of the colour wheel.
> 
> 
>> 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
>> version
>               _
> platform       x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0
> arch           x86_64
> os             darwin10.8.0
> system         x86_64, darwin10.8.0
> status
> major          3
> minor          0.2
> year           2013
> month          09
> day            25
> svn rev        63987
> language       R
> version.string R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> nickname       Frisbee Sailing
>> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rainer
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/07/13, 02:17 , John Magnotti wrote:
>> 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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