[R-SIG-Mac] R-devel segmentation fault in combination RStudio/R GUI

[Simon Urbanek]

Sebastian,

if you want to replicate the CRAN builds, you have to also use the same settings, otherwise you may have a build which is not binary compatible. It is unclear from your description how you built R (there are several variants such as framework install vs "unix"-style install and they are incompatible). You can see the flags actually used at the top of ${R_HOME}/etc/Makevars.

As for macOS R binaries, all latest builds are always available from
https://mac.r-project.org/big-sur/last-success/

The fact that the main page itself is not showing R-devel is certainly not intentional since the binaries are there - I’ll look into that, thanks for reposting (you shouldn't wait months to report that ;)).

Thanks,
Simon



> On 24 Sep 2024, at 02:27, Sebastian Kreutzer <sebastian.kreutzer using uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
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> Hello, 
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> I am writing because I have been struggling for a couple of months to get R-devel to work in combination with 
> RStudio or the R GUI.
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> In the past, I had been downloading R-devel for macOS from https://mac.r-project.org/, which 
> nearly always worked, however, for some (months I have in mind), there aren't daily R-devel builds. So I started building 
> R from source following https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75595875/how-do-i-build-r-from-sources-on-macos
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> Adapted to my system, this worked surprisingly well, so I kept drawing R-devel from the SNV server on a regular 
> basis and built it from the source. However, it stopped working in mid-August. In a nutshell: 
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> - I can build R-devel from the source without any issue flagged, and when started in the terminal, it works as expected.
> - However, it crashes reproducibly when trying to load a package in RStudio (stable/nightly build) and the R GUI (always the latest version) 
> terminates the R session on start. Error messages in the console I get read as follows: 
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>> R GUI: Termination Reason:  Namespace SIGNAL, Code 11 Segmentation fault: 11 
>> RStudio: Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) ->    /usr/lib/dyld 0x0 - 0xffffffffffffffff ??? (*) <00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> ???
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> I can share the full logs, but I want to keep it short for now.
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> My questions are: 
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> - Did anybody encounter such an issue with the latest R-devel and R GUI, RStudio? 
> - Is this perhaps why an R-devel binary is currently not available on https://mac.r-project.org/?
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> If I know that this is a known issue, it is all good; however, if it works 
> For all others without, then the error must be on my end, and I have to keep digging further. 
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> - Tested systems: M2 -> macOS 14.5 to 15.0 with the Xcode on always the latest version available at the time.
> - SNV: Always the latest check out 
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> Kind regards, 
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> Sebastian Kreutzer
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