[SOLVED] Re: RKWard on Squeeze requests backend

> 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              
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> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-ag-
> Segmentation fault
> ======
>
> 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
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