R devel - Apr 2008 - (PR#11231) [Solaris 9 segfault when closiing X11()]

We need to know a great deal more information, and asking on R-devel would 
be a lot kinder than blaming this on a bug in R (and please use a 
meaningful subject line).

What version of R is this?

Precisely what OS (Solaris 9 comes for several architectures)?

Assuming you compiled R yourself, what compilers did you use? (And where 
did you get those from if they are not Sun compilers?)  If got a 
pre-compiled version, you need to try compiling on the machine you are 
using.

Do you have a debugger for your compiler?  If so you can run R under the 
debugger (possibly R -d gdb) and debug the crash for yourself. (We cannot 
do this for you unless we can reproduce it.)

Given that Solaris 9 is long obsolete (Solaris 10 is more than 3 years' 
old), we don't hear of many R users on it.  But we do hear from some using 
it successfully.  And since R is in use on both Solaris 8 and 10, it is 
unlikely to be a generic Solaris issue.

Given all our experience, the most likely explanation is a bug in the 
software on your machine, e.g. in a compiler.  Please take this to your IT 
support team and get them to identify the problem -- if they are able to 
supply a patch to a current version of R that works around the problem it 
would be a positive contribution to the R project.


On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, liqun.xing at basf.com wrote:
> Thank you very much for the helps.
>
> However, it happened me on my Solaris OS 9 machine every time as long a>
s I
> closed the X11 window regardless how I launched the X11 window using pl>
ot,
> edit(dataset) , etc, even I specifically close the device using dev.off>
()
> command after I closed the window by clicking the close button.
>
> I will try the pass the DISPLAY and see how it will happen....
>
> Thanks again
> Liqun
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> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:15 PM, <liqun.xing at basf.com> wrote:
>> When first time launch X11(), it was fine. However, when closed the
X> 11
> windon
>> by clicking the close button, or closed it off by command Dev.off()
a> nd
> launched
>> the X11() again, got segfault, and asking for exiting R and other
> options.
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> A) Yes, that happens occasionally; particularly if I forget to call
> Dev.off() after closing the window.  Just try it again.
> B) Instead of calling x11 without arguments, you could pass DISPLAY,
> e.g., x11("localhost:0.0").
> C) I've seen that suggestion to exit R.  Usually I ignore it, and
> nothing bad happens.
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> Good luck
> /Christian
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