hangs with plots [BUG]

[Ossifragus]

description

Weave hangs if plots are includes.

versions

using InteractiveUtils; versioninfo():

Julia Version 1.6.2
Commit 1b93d53fc4 (2021-07-14 15:36 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-11.0.1 (ORCJIT, haswell)
Environment:
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 4

using Pkg; Pkg.status():

      Status `~/.julia/environments/v1.6/Project.toml`
  [69666777] Arrow v1.6.2
  [ad839575] Blink v0.12.5
  [336ed68f] CSV v0.8.5
  [324d7699] CategoricalArrays v0.10.0
  [944b1d66] CodecZlib v0.7.0
  [a93c6f00] DataFrames v1.2.2
  [1313f7d8] DataFramesMeta v0.9.0
  [31a5f54b] Debugger v0.6.8
  [31c24e10] Distributions v0.25.11
  [cc61a311] FLoops v0.1.10
  [becb17da] Feather v0.5.9
  [da1fdf0e] FreqTables v0.4.4
  [09f84164] HypothesisTests v0.10.4
  [7073ff75] IJulia v1.23.2
  [82e4d734] ImageIO v0.5.7
  [916415d5] Images v0.22.5
  [c8e1da08] IterTools v1.3.0
  [babc3d20] JDF v0.4.4
  [9da8a3cd] JLSO v2.6.0
  [b9914132] JSONTables v1.0.1
  [b964fa9f] LaTeXStrings v1.2.1
  [23fbe1c1] Latexify v0.15.6
  [ae8d54c2] Luxor v2.15.0
  [ff71e718] MixedModels v4.0.0
  [5fb14364] OhMyREPL v0.5.10
  [9b87118b] PackageCompiler v1.3.0
  [b98c9c47] Pipe v1.3.0
  [f0f68f2c] PlotlyJS v0.15.0
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.20.1
  [c3e4b0f8] Pluto v0.15.1
  [7f904dfe] PlutoUI v0.7.1
  [6cfbe66a] QRCode v0.1.0
  [6f49c342] RCall v0.13.12
  [79098fc4] Rmath v0.7.0
  [2913bbd2] StatsBase v0.33.9
  [3eaba693] StatsModels v0.6.24
  [f3b207a7] StatsPlots v0.14.26
  [fd094767] Suppressor v0.2.0
  [ebf5ac4f] TexTables v0.2.4
  [b8865327] UnicodePlots v2.0.0
  [44d3d7a6] Weave v0.10.10
  [a5390f91] ZipFile v0.9.3
  [a63ad114] Mmap

minimum reproducible steps

Put the following code in 00.jl and run weave("00.jl", cache=:off, out_path="output/") .

#' # Plot
x = rand(2, 10)
#' Create a histogram.
using Plots
plot(x[1,:])
#' Create a scatter plot
plot(x[1,:], x[2,:])

The weaving hangs at

julia> weave("00.jl", cache=:off, out_path="output/")
┌ Info: Weaving chunk 1 from line 2
└   progress = 0.0
┌ Info: Weaving chunk 2 from line 4
└   progress = 0.3333333333333333
┌ Info: Weaving chunk 2 from line 7
└   progress = 0.6666666666666666

[Ossifragus]

Just found that things work in VSCode, but not in the repl nor emacs with vterm.

[Ossifragus]

If I start julia from a terminal, then it works. Maybe this is a problem for emacs julia-repl with vterm. I will test further.

[Ossifragus]

I do not fully understand the cause, but the problem is related to using X server with gksqt. Here is a workaround:

ENV["GKSwstype"]="nul"
weave("00.jl", cache=:off, out_path="output/")
ENV["GKSwstype"]="gksqt"

The first line ENV["GKSwstype"]="nul" activates the NULL device so that X server will not be requested. After this, weave("00.jl", cache=:off, out_path="output/") works as expected. The third line ENV["GKSwstype"]="gksqt" activates gksqt in case some plots need to be displayed.

[newptcai]

ENV["GKSwstype"]="nul"

I can report this walk-around does work.

[00krishna]

I just got hit by this bug too, when I tried to run Weave from my terminal. The fix worked though.

[newptcai]

It seems that there had not been any bug-fixing for quite a while. I wonder if the project has been abandoned? Can we make some donations so as to motivate the maintainer to fix some bugs?

[00krishna]

@newptcai I am pretty sure that the project is still maintained. I mean so many people use Weave for everything. It might just be that a lot of the code is pretty stable? That is what I am hoping. I still use Weave for so many things, not sure what would replace it.

[patrickm663]

I do not fully understand the cause, but the problem is related to using X server with gksqt. Here is a workaround:

ENV["GKSwstype"]="nul"
weave("00.jl", cache=:off, out_path="output/")
ENV["GKSwstype"]="gksqt"

The first line ENV["GKSwstype"]="nul" activates the NULL device so that X server will not be requested. After this, weave("00.jl", cache=:off, out_path="output/") works as expected. The third line ENV["GKSwstype"]="gksqt" activates gksqt in case some plots need to be displayed.

Thanks, this helped me when my plots were hanging!