[R] RGL crashes

[Duncan Murdoch]

Matthew Dowle wrote:
> Might Wayland fix it in Narwhal ?

I hope those names mean something to Rainer, because they mean nothing 
to me.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:4CFF7177.7030402 at gmail.com...
>> On 08/12/2010 6:07 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
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>>> On 12/08/2010 12:05 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>> Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> rgl crashes my R session, when resizing the rgl graphic window.
>>>>
>>>> I am using Ubuntu Maversick, with dual monitor setup. If I disconnect
>>>> one monitor, I can resize it "a little bit", but it still craches if I
>>>> enlarge it to much.
>>>>
>>>> I assume that the problem has to do with allocated graphic memory in the
>>>> kernel, but why is R crashing completely, and not evn giving the usual
>>>> crash options?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Rainer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>>>> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>>   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>>   [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
>>>>   [5] LC_MONETARY=C             LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
>>>>   [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8       LC_NAME=C
>>>>   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>>
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] rgl_0.92.794
>>>>>>> version
>>>>                 _
>>>> platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>>> arch           i686
>>>> os             linux-gnu
>>>> system         i686, linux-gnu
>>>> status
>>>> major          2
>>>> minor          12.0
>>>> year           2010
>>>> month          10
>>>> day            15
>>>> svn rev        53317
>>>> language       R
>>>> version.string R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>>>>
>>>> After executing
>>>>
>>>> library(rgl)
>>>> example(rgl)
>>>>
>>>> and resizing the graph window, R crashes witrh the following message:
>>>>
>>>> drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command
>>>> stream. See dmesg for more info.
>>>>
>>>> from dmesg:
>>>>
>>>> [ 7349.471959] [drm:r100_cs_track_check] *ERROR* [drm] Buffer too small
>>>> for color buffer 0 (need 413696 have 262144) !
>>>> [ 7349.471964] [drm:r100_cs_track_check] *ERROR* [drm] color buffer 0
>>>> (256 4 0 404)
>>>> [ 7349.471967] [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Invalid command stream !
>>>>
>>>>> Those messages look like they're coming from your graphics driver, not
>>>>> from R.  So rgl may be doing something it shouldn't do, but you'll
>>>>> probably have to diagnose what that is.  It's unlikely to be
>>>>> reproducible on another system.
>>> That's what I fear as well - could you give me any tips on how to
>>> proceed to identify the problem?
>> It might help to know which line of code in rgl actually triggered the 
>> error, but debugging X11 code is tricky.  The function that likely 
>> triggered the problem is X11WindowImpl::setWindowRect in 
>> rgl/src/x11gui.cpp; it makes calls to X11 functions that do the actual 
>> work.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>> Rainer
>>>
>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>
>>>>
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