Message-ID: <83eeac26-8473-20ae-6cab-3431d6aad9d3@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2021-11-17T19:14:12Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Nightly build segfaults
In-Reply-To: <2b402ca6-8374-132d-1570-514b02c2f3d0@stats.ox.ac.uk>
On 17/11/2021 07:17, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On 16/11/2021 22:28, G?bor Cs?rdi wrote:
>> This is Monterey:
>> ? uname -a
>> Darwin Gabors-MacBook-Pro-3.local 21.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.1.0:
>> Wed Oct 13 17:33:01 PDT 2021; root:xnu-8019.41.5~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000
>> arm64
>>
>> The R-devel build segfaults:
>>
>> ? curl -O https://mac.r-project.org/monterey/R-devel/arm64/R-devel.tar.gz
>> ? sudo tar xzf R-devel.tar.gz -C /
>> ? R -q --vanilla
>> zsh: killed???? R -q --vanilla
>
> That is not a segfault, although they have been seen to cause this
> behaviour.? It more often indicates a security issue: arm64 macOS is
> prone to doing so with incremental rebuilds of R that it thinks have
> been tampered with.
With the tarball I get a popup telling me
?R.framework? cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
> Try installing the .pkg.? (Downloading from mac.r-project.org is far too
> slow at the moment for me to do so, but I recall past troubles with the
> tarballs not seen with Installer packages.)
And this evening downloads took a few seconds rather then the 2h
predicted when I wrote that.
The .pkg I tried is unsigned/not notarized so cannot be installed, not
even with 'Open With'. But packages are at least sometimes signed.
>
>>
>> So does the R-4.1 build:
>>
>> ? curl -O
>> https://mac.r-project.org/monterey/R-4.1-branch/arm64/R-4.1-branch.tar.gz
>> ? sudo tar xzf R-4.1-branch.tar.gz -C /
>> ? R -q --vanilla
>> zsh: killed???? R -q --vanilla
>>
>> The big-sur arm64 builds at
>> https://mac.r-project.org/big-sur/R-devel/arm64/R-devel.tar.gz
>> and
>> https://mac.r-project.org/big-sur/R-4.1-branch/arm64/R-4.1-branch.tar.gz
>> also do the same.
>>
>> I know that another user has seen this as well, so chances are that it
>> is not some issue on my machine. Can anyone reproduce this?
>>
>> Gabor
>
>
>
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford