[rkward-users] [rkward:discussion] RKWard 0.6.1 with R 3.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 x64 --takes too long to open the help window

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi Alex,

ok, something is definitely going wrong on your system, then. This should not happen. It looks a bit like something is slowing down the frontend process, but I don't have a good idea what that could be.

Some things to try:

> I did options(browser = "firefox") and it loads instantly when doing ?ls

Could you also try options(browser = "konqueror")? If that works fast, we know the problem is specific to rkward. If it does not, we may be looking at a problem with KDE applications in general.

> Regarding the grayed window: the rkward window, the entire GUI.

This is highly unusual. The only time you should see the entire window go gray, is when a modal dialog is waiting for input.

Let's try to track this down. Since I can't reproduce this at all, I'll need your help gathering evidence. Could you please do some (ideally all) of the things below, for me?

1. Please locate and post the latest rkward.rbackend.XYZ and rkward.frontend.XYZ-files in your /tmp directory.
2. Start RKWard from the command line with "rkward --debug-level 4", quit once the status indicator has turned green, and also post the resulting rkward.frontend.XYZ and rkward.rbackend.XYZ-files.
3. Please post the output of rk.sessionInfo().
4. Please move your ~./Rprofile out of the way (if any), also please start rkward from a directory that does not contain any .RData file. Double check that no workspace is loaded after starting up (ls (all.names=TRUE)). Does this change anything?
5. Run
~~~~~~~~~~~
sudo apt-get install gdb     # if you don't already have gdb installed
rkward --debugger gdb
# At the gdb prompt, type:
start
cont
# Once you see the grayed window, go back to the terminal, and hit
Ctrl+C
# then type
thread apply all bt full
quit    # Answer "y"
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Copy the resulting output on the terminal and post it.

Thanks!
Thomas

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