problem on upgrading to RH6.2 (was problem with ts pack

plummer at iarc.fr said:

On 24-May-00 Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Christian Posse wrote:

 >>  >> I just encountered a problem with the ts package: >>  >> >

library(ts) >> Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local),
as.logical(now)) : >>         unable to load shared library >> "/usr/
local/lib/R/library/ts/libs/ts.so": >>   /usr/local/lib/R/library/ts/
libs/ts.so: undefined symbol: ma >
... >
I have no idea what is going on: ma is not a symbol in the ts package,
so the problem is definitely elsewhere. We do know that this works
correctly when compiled and run on an RH6.2 system.

I'm afraid dlerror() can return garbage on RH6.2 so the "undefined
symbol: ma" message is probably not helpful.

The latest R RPM for Red Hat Linux is compiled on RH6.2 and works
fine. I suggest you try that. 

I have similar problems with R 1.0.1 on RH6.2 (pre-compiled rpm binaries). 
Some of the old packages ceased to work and when I tried to re-install them 
through `R INSTALL package.tar.gz', some just fail and give similar error 
messages. My `ts' works, but it is of the old original version, and I don't 
dare to check if it stops working after re-installation. However, re-installed 
`tripack' gives the following error message:

 > library(tripack)
Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : 
	unable to load shared library "/usr/lib/R/library/tripack/libs/tripack.so":
  /usr/lib/R/library/tripack/libs/tripack.so: undefined symbol: ?

If I first gunzip the package, I get another undefined symbol, but the net 
effect is the unchanged: a failure to load a library. Otherwise the message is 
the same as for `ts' above.

Downgrading to the old binaries of the package does not help, since they fail 
for other reasons, in this case because they can't find e_wsfe. This, I think, 
is caused by libf2g growing independent of libf2c which had this function 
(originally in libI77.a).

cheers, jari oksanen

Jari Oksanen - Dept Ecol Env Sci, Univ Helsinki, 15140 Lahti
Ph. +358 3 89220312, Fax -- 89220289, Mobile +358 40 5136529
jari.oksanen at helsinki.fi    http://www.helsinki.fi/~jhoksane



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