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[SOLVED] Re: RKWard on Squeeze requests backend



AG wrote:
Hello

On Squeeze, am wanting to use front end to R (RKWard).

Error msg is: "R backend requests information" with a text box titled "Selection".

I don't know what it is looking fo and attempt to provide paths (e.g. /usr/lib/R, and so on) but nothing takes. Then click cancel and the program crashes.

Error on console is:
======
failed to find gam_server Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-ag- kbuildsycoca running... failed to find gam_server R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
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Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-ag-
Segmentation fault
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Why on earth would I need gam_server? Whenever that thing stirs my memory usage goes up significantly. I've had to disable the damn thing. Anyway, I re-enabled the gam_server and restarted RKWard and the same thing again. This time in the text box I entered the path to the gam_server, but no good, so clicked cancel and RKWard crashed.

This time though, the terminal output simply read "segmentation fault", without further info.

Anyone have any clues what this may be about? I have used RKWard fine on Lenny, so am used to it, but am happy to try out another GUI for R if someone has suggestions? I'm not a "hard-core" R user to try it on the CLI only!! Either this or a suggestion on how to get RKWard working on my machine.

BTW, yes R works fine - despite my CLI diffidence, I can run a few tests and yes R works fine. It is definitely the interface.

Now I'm off to disable that darn gam_server again.

TIA

AG


Don't know if this is the best work around or not, but I changed my sources list and downloaded RKWard from unstable - all works fine. Apparently the fixed version has not yet made its way into testing.

Anyway, if anyone else runs into this as an issue, then this would be a viable fix.

Cheers
AG


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