[rkward-devel] RKward Crash while updating CRAN packages

[Aaron Sheldon]

Sucks this is the first message I post to this list. I did want to float 
volunteering to write a plug-in/wizard for survival analysis. Oh well, here is 
the mostly unhelpful details:

Application: rkward (0.5.7)
KDE Platform Version: 4.8.2 (4.8.2)
Qt Version: 4.8.1
Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Steps to reproduce:

1. Run kdesudo rkward from konsole
2. Open the update CRAN packages dialogue
3. Click on Select All Updates

Result:

Hard crash

Expected Result

1. Check marks in all packages that can be updated

Stack trace:

#6  0x00007eff1ab0f8b3 in QString::operator== (this=0x7efef45e1d08, other=...) 
at tools/qstring.cpp:2192
#7  0x00000000004879cb in _start ()

This latest round of updates to Qt pushed with Kubuntu 12.04 seems to be 
especially flaky, so this might not be a pure RKward bug, but rather a bad Qt 
library.

-- 
Aaron Sheldon

Graduate Student
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Calgary

sheldona at ucalgary.ca