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I had a very similar looking problem on Ubuntu 10.04.1 server but it turned out to be the following:

I was running my Sage notebook server through ssh session in a console. This way X11 are not accessible to R and R reports no png/jpg/X11 support with capabilities().

I tried to run Sage through virtual framebuffer (xvfb-run), but it didn't work either (apparently sage spawns inner R server(s) outside xvfb). The only solution i've found was to run Sage under X11 through VNC.

I had a very similar looking problem on Ubuntu 10.04.1 server but it turned out to be the following:

I was running my Sage notebook server through ssh session in a console. This way X11 are not accessible to R and R reports no png/jpg/X11 support with capabilities().

I tried to run Sage through virtual framebuffer (xvfb-run), but it didn't work either (apparently sage spawns inner R server(s) outside xvfb). xvfb) (edit: it works now, so go on and try it). The only solution i've found was to run Sage under X11 through VNC.

I had a very similar looking problem on Ubuntu 10.04.1 server but it turned out to be the following:

I was running my Sage notebook server through ssh session in a console. This way X11 are not accessible to R and R reports no png/jpg/X11 support with capabilities().

I tried to run Sage through virtual framebuffer (xvfb-run), but it didn't work either (apparently (edit: now it works, with sage spawns inner R server(s) outside xvfb) (edit: it works now, so 4.6.2, go on and try it). The only solution i've found was to run Sage under X11 through VNC.