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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 25/09/2024 10:26, Sebastian Kreutzer wrote:
> 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,

The machine used for the M1mac additional issue is fully up-to-date, see 
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> 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 ;)).

I did report it a month ago to Simon.

>>
>> 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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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk
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