From a.robotham at bristol.ac.uk  Fri Dec  7 10:54:18 2007
From: a.robotham at bristol.ac.uk (Aaron Robotham)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:54:18 +0000
Subject: [Rd] os x crash using rpanel and tcltk (PR#10495)
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The machine in question is a black MacBook, a pretty standard setup
with the rest of the details as listed in my first post (R 2.6.1 OSX
10.4.11). I'll give the back trace a try and let you know the result.

On 06/12/2007, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Aaron Robotham wrote:
>
> > I know of gdb but I'm not certain how to use it with Mac OS X's
> > R.app, do you just do something like "gdb open R.app" in the
> > terminal?.
> >
>
> You can attach it once it's running - just type "attach R" in gdb
> while R is runningm then "c", then let it crash and then "bt".
>
> FWIW: I cannot reproduce the problem and I have tried 3 different
> machines... (you didn't even tell us what machine type this is ...).
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> > Interestingly I don't get this crash when I launch the X11 version of
> > R through the terminal, so this would suggest the bug in question is
> > to do with the actual Rgui in R.app. Hopefully this information might
> > help to narrow down the problem. Any advice for using gdb on R.app
> > would be appreciated, I couldn't find much in the way of guidance when
> > searching online.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > On 05/12/2007, Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> >> a.robotham at bris.ac.uk wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> I've recently discovered a persistent issue with rpanel when running
> >>> R.app (2.6.1) on Mac OS X 10.4.11. tcltk and rpanel load without any
> >>> apparent error, and the interactive panels appear to work as
> >>> expected,
> >>> however upon closing the panels rpanel has created I get
> >>> catastrophic
> >>> errors and R crashes completely. For the most part R manages to
> >>> crash
> >>> with dignity and work can be saved, but sometimes it will crash
> >>> straight out. Below is an example of an entire work session (only
> >>> base
> >>> packages loaded) with the crash at the end typical of those
> >>> encountered:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> library(tcltk)
> >>>>
> >>> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> >>>
> >>>> library(rpanel)
> >>>>
> >>> Package `rpanel', version 1.0-4
> >>> type help(rpanel) for summary information
> >>>
> >>>> density.draw <- function(panel) {
> >>>>
> >>> +   plot(density(panel$x, bw = panel$h))
> >>> +   panel
> >>> + }
> >>>
> >>>> panel <- rp.control(x = rnorm(50))
> >>>> rp.slider(panel, h, 0.5, 5, log = TRUE, action = density.draw)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> *** caught bus error ***
> >>> address 0x0, cause 'non-existent physical address'
> >>>
> >>> Possible actions:
> >>> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
> >>> 2: normal R exit
> >>> 3: exit R without saving workspace
> >>> 4: exit R saving workspace
> >>>
> >>> All packages that are required are up to date, and I can find no
> >>> evidence of similar issues from searching the mailing lists. Any
> >>> suggestions would be appreciated.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Can you run this under gdb? A breakpoint in the error handler and a
> >> backtrace could be valuable.
> >>
> >>> Aaron
> >>>
> >>> ______________________________________________
> >>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>   O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B
> >>  c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K
> >> (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark          Ph:  (+45)
> >> 35327918
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk)                  FAX: (+45)
> >> 35327907
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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>



[Rd] os x crash using rpanel and tcltk (PR#10495)
Aaron Robotham