[BUG] Julia 1.10.2 fails when trying to add or use Plots issuing Pkg.add("Plots") or using Plots

[JuanVargas]

ERROR: LoadError: Init
Error: could not load library "... /.julia/artifacts/648a32a349aac06f19b6bfed47f0b822b4ef28c3/lib/libgobject-2.0.so"
│ ..../.julia/artifacts/648a32a349aac06f19b6bfed47f0b822b4ef28c3/lib/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined symbol: g_dir_unref

Looking deeper into the cascade of errors, I can see that the following crash when precompiling

../src/Cairo_jll.jl
../src/GR_jll.jl

resulting in failures in the following packages:

✗ Cairo_jll
✗ Qt6Base_jll
✗ HarfBuzz_jll
✗ libass_jll
✗ FFMPEG_jll
✗ FFMPEG
✗ GR_jll
✗ Plots
✗ Plots → UnitfulExt

[BeastyBlacksmith]

I found that deleting .julia/artifacts and reinstantiating the environment helped on a similar error

[radudiaconu0]

i have the same issue on julia 1.10.3 on Ubuntu 24.04

[varnerlab]

I have the same issue on Julia 1.10.3+0.aarch64.apple.darwin14 on macOS 14.4.1.

I deleted the .julia/artifacts dir and added Plots in the REPL. Then, many errors occurred during precompile, seemingly involving GR;

• The first involves ERROR: LoadError: InitError: could not load library libtiff.5.dylib, and then there appears to be a similar issue with libLerc.dylib.
• In the next block of the stack trace, I get ERROR: LoadError: InitError: UndefVarError: GR_jll not defined.

[JuanVargas]

I had the same issue with Julia 1.10.2. After I removed completely ~/.julia and updated package code ran OK. Then when I got 1.10.3 I did the following: 1. remove completely ~/.julia 2. install julia 1.10.3 3. issue Pkg.update() 4. tested, code ran fine, including Pkg.add("Plots")

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[SamuelBrand1]

I'm getting this issue causing a CI failure... so deleting everything and trying again is not a great solution.

[varnerlab]

Hmmm. I just tried the "remove everything" workaround, but I'm still getting the following error message: ERROR: LoadError: InitError: UndefVarError: GR_jll not defined.

In particular:

1. Deleted the .julia dir, reinstalled Julia 1.10.3+0.aarch64.apple.darwin14
2. Opened the REPL, added the Plots package. However, when I try to use Plots and trigger a precompile ...
3. Boom.

It always seems to fail on the precomple step.

[JuanVargas]

That worked for me under Linux. I see you are running on Apple. Maybe that is part of the problem.

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On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 8:53 AM Jeffrey D Varner ***@***.***> wrote: Hmmm. I just tried the "remove everything" workaround, but I'm still getting the following error message: ERROR: LoadError: InitError: UndefVarError: GR_jll not defined. In particular: 1. Deleted the .julia dir, reinstalled Julia 1.10.3+0.aarch64.apple.darwin14 2. Opened the REPL, added the Plots package. However, when I try to use Plots and trigger a precompile ... 3. Boom. It always seems to fail on the precomple step. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4921 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAGK34MF5E2NRFFTBQ757STZADQU7AVCNFSM6AAAAABGPHUPYGVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDAOBYGQZDENZSGE> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[varnerlab]

Yeah, could be. Frustrating.

[bauglir]

The recent issues may not be related to the original issue, but given that LERC-4.0.0+0 was released three hours ago, that seems like the most likely culprit given my experiments and the resulting log files for the recent reports.

The current issue is very easy to replicate, even on Julia v1.10.3, starting from a completely empty depot.

JULIA_DEPOT_PATH="$(mktemp -d)" julia --eval 'using Pkg' --eval 'Pkg.add("Plots")'

Results down the line in

Precompiling project...                                                                                                                  
  ✗ GR_jll                                           
  ✗ Plots                                                                                                                                
  ✗ Plots → UnitfulExt                                    
  145 dependencies successfully precompiled in 189 seconds                                                                               
  1 dependency had output during precompilation:     
┌ GR                                                  
│  ERROR: LoadError: InitError: could not load library "/tmp/tmp.mlvhqn2QeE/artifacts/e18a60e84fd8aefa967cb9f1d11dc6cbd9cac88b/lib/libtiff.so"
│  libLerc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

PinningLERC_jll to v3.0.0 appears to resolve the issue, i.e. the following works

JULIA_DEPOT_PATH="$(mktemp -d)" julia --eval 'using Pkg' --eval 'Pkg.add([PackageSpec(; name="Plots"), PackageSpec(; name="LERC_jll", version="3.0.0")])'

This is all on Ubuntu (23.10) and some other Linux distros.

[SamuelBrand1]

I think incompatibility with LERC-4 is the problem, this temporary fix works for me

[varnerlab]

Man, that was a nice catch, @bauglir and @SamuelBrand1. Confirm that downgrading LERC_jll v4.0.0+0 ⇒ v3.0.0+1 resolves the Plots.jl GR issue for me, and a similar set of precompile issues with ImageMagick that “magically" surfaced this morning.