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2010 Apr 19
0
R's unfortunate treatment of X11 failures
...forwarding), R usually
gives a scary warning like "Error: X11 fatal IO error: please save work and
shut down R." That's all well and good.
Then, if I ignore it and try to plot() something, R dies quite
ungracefully, producing (e.g.) something like this:
R: ../../src/xcb_io.c:385: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed.
Aborted
...and returning me to the shell. If I have not saved, I have lost my work.
Clearly, this is my fault--I ignored the warning. However, I just had the
above happen to me without my being warned...I lost some data, but not a
lot. I am working on cre...
2008 Jun 04
6
General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?
I've been a big fan of CentOS for a while, and didn't have many
issues with CentOS 4.X over the past few years. However, since
moving to CentOS 5.1 a few weeks ago, I have received more problem
reports from my users than in the last year and a half on CentOS
4.X. I've previously reported the problem with gnome-terminal
crashing (and since there is a single gnome-terminal