[Rd] v2.8.1 crashes on quit(save="yes") or just won't save (PR#13612)

[Uwe Ligges]

anne.gilman at gmail.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Anne Gilman
> Version: 2.8.1
> OS: Mac OS X  10.4.11
> Submission from: (NULL) (132.177.75.245)
> 
> 
> Dear R Team,
> 
> Today I upgraded from R 2.2.2 to 2.8.1  ...then I restarted, did a bunch of
> work, and tried to quit.  (Note that I have oodles of stuff saved in the work
> environment; took almost a full minute to start up.)  After over 10 minutes, it
> was still trying to close up, and the problem (below) for DBfetch was mentioned,
> plus it said
> 
> *** caught segfault ***  
> address 0x7fffdeb1  
> cause 'memory not mapped'  
> 
> (retyped from my notes, no way to grab)
> 
> After about five more minutes, I did a Force Quit.  Then I reproduced the bug. 
> I opened R, loaded a CSV file from my previous day's work, then quit - here's
> what happened:
> 
>> quit(save="yes")
> Error in .Call("R_lazyLoadDBfetch", key, file, compressed, hook, PACKAGE =
> "base") : 
>   C symbol name "R_lazyLoadDBfetch" not in DLL for package "base"

The error message sounds like you mixed up an installation with new 
R-2.8.1 and some old packages (maybe including base itself?!) that are 
still in  some library you are loading packages from.

Please do a clean installation and update all you packages. If you have 
a separate library than the standard one, please remove all base 
packages from that library.

Uwe Ligges



>> quit(save="no")
 >>
> (that latter command worked, 2nd time, no need for Force Quit)
> 
> Yarg!  I know I can work around this using write.csv(), but I guess my lesson is
> never to change versions in the middle of one's dissertation analyses!
> 
> with thanks,
> 
> Anne G.
> 
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