R.exe crashes on R v2.12.0dev (Windows Vista)
Hi, by pure luck, I discovered that it has to do with the number of characters (or similar) in the Windows system environment variable 'PATH'. I used a custom PATH when it crashed. When I tried to a plain/fresh Command prompt, the PATH is shorter and then R.exe doesn't crash. This is that working PATH: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;c:\Rtools212\bin;c:\Rtools212\perl\bin;c:\Rtools212\MinGW\bin;c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\perl\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\GTK2-R~1\bin;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin;c:\program files\imagemagick-6.4.2-q16;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo;C:\Program Files\ThinkPad\ConnectUtilities;C:\Program Files\Lenovo\Client Security Solution;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Files\GTK2-Runtime\lib;C:\Program Files\aspell\bin;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\DivX Shared\;C:\Program Files\SlikSvn\bin\;C:\Program Files\ThinkPad\ConnectUtilities\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files\SSH Communications Security\SSH Secure Shell;C:\Users\hb\bin Starting with this PATH and making it longer and longer I can eventually reproduce the crash again. It occurs when my PATH is ~1182 characters long: path C:/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/;%PATH% path C:/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/;%PATH% path C:/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/1234567890/;%PATH% path C:/1234567890/1234567/;%PATH% echo %PATH% | wc "%ProgramFiles%/R/R-2.12.0dev/bin/i386/R.exe" If I make it a few characters shorter, R.exe starts, but when I do quit() it crashes. Note that there is no problem with Rterm.exe. Thanks /Henrik PS. I've installed Microsoft Debug Diagnostic Tool v1.1 and tried to get something useful out of it without much success. If the above PATH troubleshooting is not enough, I'll spend more time trying to figure out how that tool works. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
On 26/07/2010 10:25 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
Shame on me; I put important only in the subject line. It's Windows Vista Business 32-bit (Service Pack 2) English with the latest updates.
Oops, didn't notice that. ?I don't have a Vista machine to test on. ?I don't see the crash on a slightly newer build of R on XP SP3 or Windows 7. If you know of a debugger that can dump a stack trace at the time of the crash, that would be helpful information. ?(We used to use Dr. Watson for this, but I don't think it works in Vista/Win 7. ?I've heard of something called "userdump", but never tried it.) Duncan Murdoch
/Henrik On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
On 26/07/2010 5:15 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
Just FYI: Problem remains (on same system) with "R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-07-21 r52590)": Problem signature: ?Problem Event Name: ? APPCRASH ?Application Name: ? ? R.exe ?Application Version: ?2.120.52590.0 ?Application Timestamp: ? ? ? ?4c471362 ?Fault Module Name: ? ?R.exe ?Fault Module Version: 2.120.52590.0 ?Fault Module Timestamp: ? ? ? 4c471362 ?Exception Code: ? ? ? c0000005 ?Exception Offset: ? ? 0000240e ?OS Version: ? 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.6
What is your OS? I don't know the MS numbering scheme... Duncan Murdoch
?Locale ID: ? ?1033 ?Additional Information 1: ? ? 8772 ?Additional Information 2: ? ? 9431192a7274b0ee769861df31ecee58 ?Additional Information 3: ? ? f768 ?Additional Information 4: ? ? 930d06d3f6aed4162dca7601993082f5 Anyone knows if there anything else I can do to provide more debug information on this? /Henrik On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
Using the latest developers version of R [2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-05-21 r52061)], R.exe crashes: "%ProgramFiles%/R/R-2.12.0dev/bin/i386/R.exe" with Windows reporting: Problem signature: ?Problem Event Name: ? APPCRASH ?Application Name: ? ? R.exe ?Application Version: ?2.120.52061.0 ?Application Timestamp: ? ? ? ?4bf638bd ?Fault Module Name: ? ?R.exe ?Fault Module Version: 2.120.52061.0 ?Fault Module Timestamp: ? ? ? 4bf638bd ?Exception Code: ? ? ? c0000005 ?Exception Offset: ? ? 00001d94 ?OS Version: ? 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.6 ?Locale ID: ? ?1033 ?Additional Information 1: ? ? 1c1d ?Additional Information 2: ? ? e064c795479179a5f08d19e37de8915e ?Additional Information 3: ? ? 50ea ?Additional Information 4: ? ? 02a385f4f3dcffff3301c3a9d270f946 same occurs when calling: "%ProgramFiles%/R/R-2.12.0dev/bin/R.exe" However, C:\Users\hb\braju.com.R\R.matlab,R-forge>"%ProgramFiles%/R/R-2.12.0dev/bin/i386/Rterm.exe" -e "sessionInfo()" R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-05-21 r52061) Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) 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.
sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-05-21 r52061) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base
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