Shiny: Problem with shiny and library/install.packages on Arch Linux

Created on 7 Aug 2018 · 5Comments · Source: rstudio/shiny

I'm having a problem compiling and/or loading shiny on my platform. Here's the error:

* installing *source* package ‘shiny’ ...
** package ‘shiny’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  Mutex creation failed
/usr/lib64/R/bin/INSTALL: line 34:  2047 Done                    echo 'tools:::.install_packages()'
      2048 Aborted                 (core dumped) | R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES= LC_COLLATE=C "${R_HOME}/bin/R" $myArgs --slave --args ${args}

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpkcxzEd/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("shiny") :
  installation of package ‘shiny’ had non-zero exit status

Here is my session information:

R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Arch Linux

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/libblas.so.3.8.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3.8.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.1 tools_3.5.1    tcltk_3.5.1

The library call fails with the same mutex initialization error. Would be very grateful if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance for your time!

Source

Alkonost

Most helpful comment

This is due to the 'later' package. The latest github release has a fix for this: devtools::install_github('r-lib/later'). For any future arch linux users wondering why everything broke.

stephensrmmartin on 12 Aug 2018

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Hi,

I just had the same problem. Revert glibc to the previous version (2.27-3) and you should be ok.
This glibc update seems to have broken electron apps as well, this is being investigated in the arch bugtracker.

MaximeWack on 7 Aug 2018

Ah, I see the bug report about it now. Thank you, Maxime.

Alkonost on 7 Aug 2018

This is due to the 'later' package. The latest github release has a fix for this: devtools::install_github('r-lib/later'). For any future arch linux users wondering why everything broke.

stephensrmmartin on 12 Aug 2018

👍7

Thanks for keeping up with the issue and providing the fix here!

MaximeWack on 13 Aug 2018

thank u