R devel - Nov 2009 - strange crashes caused by 'cairoDevice' and 'tcltk' dialogues

Dear developers
I get some strange crashes when 'cairoDevice' and 'tcltk' are
both
loaded in the same R vanilla session.

When executing the following in that order
require(relimp)
require(cairoDevice)
showData (iris)

I get a crash with the following message (see R-relimp-cairoDevice.txt):
The program 'R' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 2832 error_code 3 request_code 15 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


When I inverse the order of calls, I no longer seem to get issues.
(See R-cairoDevice-relimp.txt)
require(cairoDevice)
require(relimp)
showData (iris)

Initially I got issues with 'playwith' and 'Rcmdr', but managed
to pin
down to  'cairoDevice' and 'tcltk' (although it could still be
something else). At this point I'm stuck. I tried
R -d gdb --vanilla

but
> require(relimp)
Loading required package: relimp
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Cannot find new threads: generic error
(gdb) quit

I get the same error when trying to load Rcmdr in gdb.

Could someone point me to the right direction of investigating these
crashes? Thank you
Liviu



liviu at debian-liv:~$ uname -a
Linux debian-liv 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Aug 15 18:09:19 UTC 2009
x86_64 GNU/Linux
liviu at debian-liv:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep cran2deb
deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64/
testing/
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] relimp_1.0-1     cairoDevice_2.10

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tcltk_2.10.0
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liviu at debian-liv:~$ R --vanilla

R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
> require(relimp)
Loading required package: relimp
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> showData (iris)
> require(cairoDevice)
Loading required package: cairoDevice

Warning message:
package 'cairoDevice' was built under R version 2.9.0 and help may not
work correctly 
> 
> showData (iris)
> The program 'R' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 2832 error_code 3 request_code 15 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
-------------- next part --------------
liviu at debian-liv:~$ R --vanilla

R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
> require(cairoDevice)
Loading required package: cairoDevice
Warning message:
package 'cairoDevice' was built under R version 2.9.0 and help may not
work correctly 
> require(relimp)
Loading required package: relimp
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> showData(iris)
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) 
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] relimp_1.0-1     cairoDevice_2.10

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tcltk_2.10.0
> quit()