(Debian Bug 344248): R segfaults when pressing Delete (PR#8421)

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Resend after type in mailheader.  I have the bug on my system with
yesterday's R 2.2.1. A library mismatch is still a likely cause.

Dirk

On 21 December 2005 at 01:50, Ethan Glasser-Camp wrote:
| Package: r-base-core
| Version: 2.2.1-1
| 
| When I run R, I can cause a crash by simply pressing Delete. Backspace works
| fine, and I can use ESS without problems.

Uh-oh.

| ethan at sundance:~$ R
| 
| R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
| Version 2.2.1  (2005-12-20 r36812)
| 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.
| 
| 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.
| 
| [Previously saved workspace restored]

Could you (temporarily) remove that file?

| > Segmentation fault
| ethan at sundance:~$

That said, I just tried this where I seemed to have no ~/.RData file.
Pressing <Deletet><Return> leads to a SegFault.

I will pass this on R Core. 

Thanks for the bug report.
 
Dirk

| 
| 
| Here is a list of packages I thought might be relevant:
| 
| $ dpkg -l r-* libreadline*
| Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
| |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
| ||/ Name           Version        Description
| +++-==============-==============-============================================
| un  libreadline-co <none>         (no description available)
| un  libreadline-de <none>         (no description available)
| ii  libreadline-ru 1.8.3+1.8.4pre Readline interface for Ruby 1.8
| ii  libreadline4   4.3-18         GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
| un  libreadline4-d <none>         (no description available)
| ii  libreadline5   5.1-1          GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
| ii  libreadline5-d 5.1-1          GNU readline and history libraries, developm
| ii  r-base         2.2.1-1        GNU R statistical computing language and env
| ii  r-base-core    2.2.1-1        GNU R core of statistical computing language
| un  r-base-dev     <none>         (no description available)
| ii  r-base-html    2.2.1-1        GNU R html docs for statistical computing sy
| ii  r-base-latex   2.2.1-1        GNU R LaTeX docs for statistical computing s
| ii  r-cran-boot    1.2.24-1       GNU R package for bootstrapping functions fr
| ii  r-cran-cluster 1.10.2-1       GNU R package for cluster analysis by Rousse
| ii  r-cran-foreign 0.8.12-1       GNU R package to read/write data from other
| ii  r-cran-gdata   2.1.2-1        GNU R package with data manipulation tools b
| ii  r-cran-gplots  2.2.0-1        GNU R package with tools for plotting data b
| un  r-cran-gregmis <none>         (no description available)
| ii  r-cran-gtools  2.2.2-1        GNU R package with R programming tools by Gr
| ii  r-cran-kernsmo 2.22.15-1      GNU R package for kernel smoothing and densi
| ii  r-cran-lattice 0.12-11.1-1    GNU R package for 'Trellis' graphics
| ii  r-cran-lattice 0.1.1-1        GNU R package of additional graphical displa
| ii  r-cran-mgcv    1.3-12-1       GNU R package for multiple parameter smoothi
| ii  r-cran-misc3d  0.3-1-1        GNU R collection of 3d plot functions and rg
| ii  r-cran-nlme    3.1.62-1       GNU R package for (non-)linear mixed effects
| ii  r-cran-quadpro 1.4.7-2        GNU R package for solving quadratic programm
| ii  r-cran-rgl     0.65-1         GNU R package for three-dimensional visualis
| ii  r-cran-rpart   3.1.27-1       GNU R package for recursive partitioning and
| ii  r-cran-surviva 2.20-1         GNU R package for survival analysis
| un  r-cran-tkrplot <none>         (no description available)
| ii  r-cran-vr      7.2.23-1       GNU R package accompanying the Venables and
| un  r-doc-html     <none>         (no description available)
| ii  r-doc-info     2.2.1-1        GNU R info manuals statistical computing sys
| un  r-doc-pdf      <none>         (no description available)
| un  r-mathlib      <none>         (no description available)
| ii  r-recommended  2.2.1-1        GNU R collection of recommended packages [me
| 
| 
| Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.
| 
| Ethan