Re: “guix pack -RR r“ fails?

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> The usual ‘./bin/R’ fails with:
>
> $ ./bin/R
> : unsupported Guix execution engine; ignoring

‘GUIX_EXECUTION_ENGINE’ is set to the empty string.

> ./bin/R
> R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) -- "Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out"
>
> [...]
>
>  *** caught segfault ***
> address 0x7f44f4b11008, cause 'memory not mapped'

[...]

> Error: package or namespace load failed for 'grDevices' in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
>  unable to load shared object '/gnu/store/nqqhaz59gdr5q6mb6mw9dd8jk133rna2-r-minimal-4.0.3/lib/R/library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.so':
>   /gnu/store/nqqhaz59gdr5q6mb6mw9dd8jk133rna2-r-minimal-4.0.3/lib/R/library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.so: cannot open shared object file: Bad address
> Error: package or namespace load failed for 'graphics' in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
>  unable to load shared object '/gnu/store/nqqhaz59gdr5q6mb6mw9dd8jk133rna2-r-minimal-4.0.3/lib/R/library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.so':
>   /gnu/store/nqqhaz59gdr5q6mb6mw9dd8jk133rna2-r-minimal-4.0.3/lib/R/library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.so: cannot open shared object file: Bad address
> Error: package or namespace load failed for 'stats' in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
>  unable to load shared object '/gnu/store/nqqhaz59gdr5q6mb6mw9dd8jk133rna2-r-minimal-4.0.3/lib/R/library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.so':

Can you try ‘strace -f -s 500 -o log ./bin/R’ and send the tail of the
‘log’ file?

> The cluster machine is an old kernel:
>
> HEAD$ uname -a
> Linux HEAD 2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 10 18:01:38 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Our libc is built with ‘--enable-kernel=3.2.0’ so it’s not clear whether
this can work at all (this ‘2.6’ kernel certainly contains stuff
backported from 3.x though, who knows.)

HTH,
Ludo’.