[vox-tech] troubleshooting Ubuntu Tahr upgrade

[Richard Harke]

I just installed R on debian wheezy and I don"t see this problem. Since
ubuntu derives
from debian it must be something the ubuntu folks did. You might try an
ubuntu
mailing list or help forum.

Richard



On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I've just upgraded my Ubuntu system to 14.04 / Tahr (thanks Alex for the
> pointer earlier). I now find that when I launch the "R" software
> environment, I immediately get a segmentation fault with no further warning
> or error message.
>
> I tried removing the relevant base package, which seemed to successfully
> remove R entirely from my system:
>
>     sudo aptitude remove --purge r-base-core
>
> I then simply reinstalled r-base-core, but same error persists.
>
> my sources.list shows:
>
>     deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
>     deb-src http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
>
> I've never encountered this problem in an upgrade before.  Any suggestions
> on how I should troubleshoot this one?  Many thanks!
>
> - Carl
>
> --
> Carl Boettiger
> UC Santa Cruz
> http://carlboettiger.info/
>
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