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"UserWarning: Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list." never resolves

asked 2020-01-12 16:40:25 +0100

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updated 2020-01-12 17:58:58 +0100

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Hi,

I just downloaded and installed Sage 9.0 on windows. Typing the following:

plot(x^3, (x,0,5))

Gives the following error:

/opt/sagemath-9.0/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:281: UserWarning: Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. This may take a moment.
   'Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. '

The kernel is running and nothing happens, even after waiting for a long time.

I did some googling. This stackexchange answer suggesting using

import matplotlib as mpl
print mpl.get_cachedir()

To get the directory of matplotlib, in order to (as suggested here) delete these files:

fontList.cache
fontList.py3k.cache 
tex.cache

I did this, the folder I got was: /home/sage/.sage/matplotlib-1.5.1

But this folder is empty (according to the Sage shell). There are no files to delete there.

Any suggestions for how to get plot to work?

Thanks.

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I downgraded to Sage 8.8 and now the plot command works as expected.

eod gravatar imageeod ( 2020-01-14 09:50:33 +0100 )edit
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I experienced the same problem. I first tried to upgrade matplotlib by launching the sagemath shell running pip install --upgrade matplotlib. Then I use the following command to try the plotting function P = matrix_plot(matrix(2,[1,1,3,3])) and then P. If for the first time the console hangs at the message "Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list.", then press ctrl+c to break it and try the plot function again. Since I cannot replicate the problem now I am not sure if this is the solution to the problem. Good luck.

ray8_3 gravatar imageray8_3 ( 2020-01-16 12:02:36 +0100 )edit

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answered 2020-02-07 11:29:00 +0100

I had the same problem. I did the following:

1- Upgrade matplotlib by launching the sagemath shell running pip install --upgrade matplotlib.

2- I installed matploplib in a different virtualenv. This created a folder called ~/.matplotlib.

3- I copied the content of ~/.matplotlib to /home/sage/.sage/matplotlib-1.5.1.

It solved the issue for me.

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Thanks for answering. The latest version of Sage 9 is working for me now though.

eod gravatar imageeod ( 2020-02-19 13:14:44 +0100 )edit

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