Hi. It seems that if I put a browser() in my Rprofile.site, I get a segfault. This happens on several machines, several versions of R.
Here it the valgrind output when using revision 62797: ==31314== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==31314== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==31314== Using Valgrind-3.8.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==31314== Command: /home/btyner/R62797/lib/R/bin/exec/R ==31314== R version 3.0.1 Patched (2013-05-24 r62797) -- "Good Sport" Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) <snip> Called from: top level Browse[1]> ls() ==31314== Invalid write of size 1 ==31314== at 0x4CF07D: R_IoBufferPutc (iosupport.c:135) ==31314== by 0x4D3C5C: Rf_ReplIteration (main.c:222) ==31314== by 0x4D4047: R_ReplConsole (main.c:307) ==31314== by 0x4D4353: do_browser (main.c:1137) ==31314== by 0x4B1E86: Rf_eval (eval.c:639) ==31314== by 0x4D22F0: R_ReplFile (main.c:101) ==31314== by 0x4D23FF: R_LoadProfile (main.c:663) ==31314== by 0x4D2965: setup_Rmainloop (main.c:892) ==31314== by 0x4D4558: Rf_mainloop (main.c:992) ==31314== by 0x41A4D7: main (Rmain.c:32) ==31314== Address 0x0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd ==31314== *** caught segfault *** address (nil), cause 'memory not mapped' And here is the gdb backtrace: #0 R_IoBufferPutc (c=c@entry=108, iob=iob@entry=0x9868c0 <R_ConsoleIob>) at iosupport.c:135 #1 0x00000000004d3c5d in Rf_ReplIteration (rho=rho@entry=0x9b9920, savestack=savestack@entry=9, browselevel=browselevel@entry=1, state=state@entry=0x7fffffffadb0) at main.c:222 #2 0x00000000004d4048 in R_ReplConsole (rho=rho@entry=0x9b9920, savestack=savestack@entry=9, browselevel=browselevel@entry=1) at main.c:307 #3 0x00000000004d4354 in do_browser (call=0x1464b20, op=<optimized out>, args=<optimized out>, rho=0x9b9920) at main.c:1137 #4 0x00000000004b1e87 in Rf_eval (e=0x1464b20, rho=rho@entry=0x9b9920) at eval.c:639 #5 0x00000000004d22f1 in R_ReplFile (fp=0x146fdb0, rho=rho@entry=0x9b9920) at main.c:101 #6 0x00000000004d2400 in R_LoadProfile (fparg=0x146fdb0, env=env@entry=0x9b9920) at main.c:663 #7 0x00000000004d2966 in setup_Rmainloop () at main.c:892 #8 0x00000000004d4559 in Rf_mainloop () at main.c:992 #9 0x000000000041a4d8 in main (ac=ac@entry=1, av=av@entry=0x7fffffffe058) at Rmain.c:32 #10 0x00007ffff6a87ea5 in __libc_start_main (main=0x41a4c0 <main>, argc=1, ubp_av=0x7fffffffe058, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe048) at libc-start.c:260 #11 0x000000000041a509 in _start () Lastly, here is my > sessionInfo() R version 3.0.1 Patched (2013-05-24 r62797) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base Figured I'd mention this here first before submitting a formal bug report, in case this is user error. Regards, Ben
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