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Segfaults on Ubuntu 14.04

5 messages · Carl Boettiger, Michael Rutter, Dirk Eddelbuettel +1 more

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Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On 22 April 2014 at 13:55, Carl Boettiger wrote:
| I've just upgraded my Ubuntu system to 14.04 / Trusty Tahr. I now find that
| when I launch the "R" software environment, I immediately get a
| segmentation fault with no further warning or error message.
| 
| I tried removing the relevant base package, which seemed to successfully
| remove R entirely from my system:
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|     sudo aptitude remove --purge r-base-core
| 
| I then simply reinstalled r-base-core, but same error persists.

Hm.

I upgraded a few (older, less used) machines at home on the weekend, and had
no issues.  But I didn't try R. 
 
| my sources.list shows:
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|     deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
|     deb-src http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/

That seems right.  Maybe Michael can chime in. 
 
| I then simply downloaded the Debian wheezy .deb for R 3.1.0 instead and
| installed that, which worked just fine.  Just wondering if anyone else has

That is potentially not the right thing as Debian can have different library
versions... 

| encountered this problem on the Ubuntu version and/or if I should report
| this as a bug, and to whom.  (My apologies, the Debian package information
| for the ubuntu .deb file isn't particularly clear on to whom I should
| report bugs).

Here is good. I read it, Michael reads it, ...

Dirk
Michael Rutter
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On 04/22/2014 05:21 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
I updated a laptop to trusty and added the RRutter Launchpad PPA. 
Downloaded R and it ran fine.  So, I would try that repository to see if 
it fixes the issue (https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rrutter). 
Since the PPA feeds CRAN, there should be no difference but you never know.

A couple of questions.

1. Did you do a fresh install or an upgrade of Ubuntu?
2. Are you using any of the non-standard libraries like OpenBLAS?
3. 32 or 64 bit Ubuntu?

This is the first I have heard of the issue for Trusty.  Not sure shy 
the Debian package works and not the I built.  Another suggestion would 
be use the version of R from the Ubuntu repository (remove any new 
sources) and see if that works.

Hope this helps,
Michael

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On 22 April 2014 at 22:06, Michael Rutter wrote:

        
| I updated a laptop to trusty and added the RRutter Launchpad PPA. 
| Downloaded R and it ran fine.  So, I would try that repository to see if 
| it fixes the issue (https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rrutter). 
| Since the PPA feeds CRAN, there should be no difference but you never know.
| 
| A couple of questions.
| 
| 1. Did you do a fresh install or an upgrade of Ubuntu?
| 2. Are you using any of the non-standard libraries like OpenBLAS?
| 3. 32 or 64 bit Ubuntu?
| 
| This is the first I have heard of the issue for Trusty.  Not sure shy 
| the Debian package works and not the I built.  Another suggestion would 
| be use the version of R from the Ubuntu repository (remove any new 
| sources) and see if that works.

Same here. Home now, and fired up the (older) laptop I converted. R runs
fine, both the pre-trusty version I had and the trusty version once I updated
the sources.list entry. That was with 32bit.

I stronly suspect a local issue. 

We would have heard from more than one user methinks.  We will try to help
but it does not look systemic to me or Michael.

Dirk

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
R from the PPA on Trusty with 64-bit is running fine here.

Scott


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