[R-SIG-Mac] CONFIRMED - R.app crashes at startup on MacOS Sierra

[Simon Urbanek]

Karl,

unfortunately I cannot reproduce it on 10.12.1. How exactly can you trigger it? I have tried dragging a file on the R icon and open -a /Applications/R.app test.R and neither crashed on me. Does it depend on the R file opened or its location?

Rainer,
it seems that your build is broken - I have seen crashes on error in builds that don't compile longjmp correctly so errors blow up the event loop - which seems to be the case in your build. How did you build it?

Cheers,
Simon



> On Dec 8, 2016, at 5:45 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
> 
> Karl Thomaseth <karl.thomaseth at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I regret to bother you, but since I upgraded to MacOS Sierra more than a month ago, I am experiencing
>> that whenever I open any “file.R”, which launches automatically R.app GUI the GUI crashes (see info below),
>> I removed also all .RData and .Rapp.history from my system with
>> sudo find / -name “.RData” -delete
>> sudo find / -name “.Rapp*” -delete
>> If I start R directly from the Dock, everything works fine.
> 
> First attempt: Nope - works. Then I realized it opened in emacs...
> 
> OK.
> 
> Opening a .R file via clicking on it actually results in the crash as
> well. The file is opened, but R crashes.
> 
> 
> How did you install R? I installed via homebrew (And no, I don't expect
> any help here for my case).
> 
> But I might add: maybe related - but R crashes in the GUI if I use
> e.g. a non-existing function - maybe related?
> 
> ,----
> | > version
> |                _                           
> | platform       x86_64-apple-darwin16.1.0   
> | arch           x86_64                      
> | os             darwin16.1.0                
> | system         x86_64, darwin16.1.0        
> | status                                     
> | major          3                           
> | minor          3.2                         
> | year           2016                        
> | month          10                          
> | day            31                          
> | svn rev        71607                       
> | language       R                           
> | version.string R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
> | nickname       Sincere Pumpkin Patch       
> | > version()
> | Error: could not find function "version"
> | 
> |  *** caught segfault ***
> | address 0x18, cause 'memory not mapped'
> | 
> | Possible actions:
> | 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
> | 2: normal R exit
> | 3: exit R without saving workspace
> | 4: exit R saving workspace
> | Selection: 
> `----
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rainer
> 
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
>> Karl Thomaseth
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) -- "Sincere Pumpkin Patch"
>> Copyright (C) 2016 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
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>> 
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>> 
>> [R.app GUI 1.68 (7288) x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0]
>> 
>> *** caught segfault ***
>> address 0x7f8bf2637f8, cause 'memory not mapped'
>> 
>> Possible actions:
>> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
>> 2: normal R exit
>> 3: exit R without saving workspace
>> 4: exit R saving workspace
>>> 
>> Selection: 
>> 
>> =======================================
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>> Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.1
>> 
>> 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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