[yt-users] Odd path issue

[David Collins]

Thanks, Matt.  I'll give that a try.

d.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Not sure exactly what's going on, but can you try removing the
> fontcache from your ~/.matplotlib directory?  It seems that lately
> some people have had issues with corruption there.  It stores all the
> paths, etc, that are being dredged up here.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:04 PM, david collins <antpuncher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi there--
>>
>> I have this odd problem when trying to save a projection.  I do
>>
>> pc.add_projection(field,axis)
>> pc.save(name)
>>
>> on newly made projection (not one taken from the cache in X.yt file)
>> and it gives me the following mess:
>>
>> <errstack>
>>    print self.pc.save(frame_template%(frame), format = self.format)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/src/yt-hg/yt/yt/visualization/plot_collection.py",
>> line 153, in save
>>    override=override, force_save=force_save))
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/src/yt-hg/yt/yt/visualization/plot_types.py",
>> line 121, in save_image
>>    only_on_root(canvas.print_figure, fn)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/src/yt-hg/yt/yt/funcs.py", line
>> 347, in only_on_root
>>    return func(*args,**kwargs)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py",
>> line 1419, in print_figure
>>    **kwargs)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py",
>> line 1308, in print_eps
>>    return ps.print_eps(*args, **kwargs)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py",
>> line 869, in print_eps
>>    return self._print_ps(outfile, 'eps', *args, **kwargs)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py",
>> line 895, in _print_ps
>>    orientation, isLandscape, papertype)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py",
>> line 969, in _print_figure
>>    self.figure.draw(renderer)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py",
>> line 772, in draw
>>    for a in self.axes: a.draw(renderer)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py",
>> line 1601, in draw
>>    a.draw(renderer)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py",
>> line 452, in draw
>>    bbox, info = self._get_layout(renderer)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py",
>> line 253, in _get_layout
>>    clean_line, self._fontproperties, ismath=ismath)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py",
>> line 308, in get_text_width_height_descent
>>    self.mathtext_parser.parse(s, 72, prop)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mathtext.py",
>> line 2795, in parse
>>    font_output = fontset_class(prop, backend)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mathtext.py",
>> line 658, in __init__
>>    self._stix_fallback = StixFonts(*args, **kwargs)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mathtext.py",
>> line 902, in __init__
>>    fullpath = findfont(name)
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py",
>> line 1307, in findfont
>>    if not os.path.exists(font):
>>  File "/nics/b/home/collins/local_xt5/lib/python2.6/genericpath.py",
>> line 18, in exists
>>    st = os.stat(path)
>> TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, dict found
>> </errstack>
>>
>> pdb shows that
>> (Pdb) path
>> {'afm': None, 'ttf':
>> '/nics/b/home/collins/local_nautalus/src/yt-x86_64/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/Vera.ttf'}
>>
>> which isn't a path.
>>
>> I just built from changeset 3628:da3894bf42a5.
>>
>> If I then re-do the plot commands (so it reads the cached projection
>> off disk) it works fine.  Has anyone seen this problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> d.
>>
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