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

[Sebastian Kreutzer]

Hi Simon, 

Many thanks for your prompt reply and the link; it greatly helps, and I appreciate it!

Yes, sorry for not detailing my issue further, but I did not want to 
spam anybody with the log and configuration files I am using, so I cut it short. 

I will also look more carefully into the differences between “my” build process and the CRAN builds; 
it seems evident that I have overlooked something. My initial thought was just that with all the API 
changes going on and me using a more recent version of macOS for the build than CRAN does, 
it would not surprise me that, at some point, something
had changed in macOS, causing this “user-interface-only” crash.

Anyway, so as not to bother you further, thanks again for the help. I am good for now, 
and if I figure out what has to be changed in my configuration to make it work again,  I will post it.


Kind regards, 

Sebastian 

> On 25. Sep 2024, at 01:40, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using R-project.org> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>> 
>> Hello, 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 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: 
>> 
>> - 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: 
>> 
>>> 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> ???
>> 
>> I can share the full logs, but I want to keep it short for now.
>> 
>> My questions are: 
>> 
>> - 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/?
>> 
>> 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. 
>> 
>> - 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 
>> 
>> 
>> Kind regards, 
>> 
>> 
>> Sebastian Kreutzer
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