R help - Sep 2004 - loading error of the Rcmdr library on Debian Sid [SOLVED]

Hello,

hopefully someone will remember my previous problem to load the Rcmdr 
library from within GNU R resulting in an error message: 
"libnvidia-tls.so.1: cannot handle TLS data".

Some suggestions have been raised by Christian Schulz and others that 
unfortunately didn't work around this error.
Nevertheless I felt very grateful for your suggestions!

This morning I investigated this problem a bit more in depth. It turned 
out that a buggy NVidia driver (libnvidia-tls.so) is loaded by defualt 
provoking the reported problem.

After renaming /usrlib/tls/ too /usr/lib/tls_old (can also be entirely 
removed!) the problem vanished inmediately and R Commander works 
smoothly out of the box!

Just thought this might be of interest in case of someone else is 
affected by this NVidia related problem!

regards

Thomas

That sounds like the result of having a too-old nvidia-common and
booting between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

I believe that nvidia until 2.6 likes the TLS libs, under 2.4 doesn't.




Thomas Sch??nhoff <tom_woody at swissinfo.org> writes:
> Hello,
>
> hopefully someone will remember my previous problem to load the Rcmdr
> library from within GNU R resulting in an error message:
> "libnvidia-tls.so.1: cannot handle TLS data".
>
> Some suggestions have been raised by Christian Schulz and others that
> unfortunately didn't work around this error.
> Nevertheless I felt very grateful for your suggestions!
>
> This morning I investigated this problem a bit more in depth. It
> turned out that a buggy NVidia driver (libnvidia-tls.so) is loaded by
> defualt provoking the reported problem.
>
> After renaming /usrlib/tls/ too /usr/lib/tls_old (can also be entirely
> removed!) the problem vanished inmediately and R Commander works
> smoothly out of the box!
>
> Just thought this might be of interest in case of someone else is
> affected by this NVidia related problem!
>
> regards
>
> Thomas
>
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