Access denied for plotting artifacts

Christopher_Fisher · February 22, 2024, 10:48am

For seemingly no reason, I encountered an error with GR_jll failing to compile. Nothing changed on my system as far as I can tell. This ultimately lead the error below after upgrading from Julia 1.10 to 1.10.1.

Precompiling project...
  ✗ Libtiff_jll
  ✗ GR_jll
  ✗ Plots
  ✗ Plots → UnitfulExt
  176 dependencies successfully precompiled in 196 seconds. 6 already precompiled.
  1 dependency had output during precompilation:
┌ GR
│  ERROR: LoadError: InitError: could not load library "C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\artifacts\e0047abf10ac78869271eb320a815a4c4f0945fd\bin\liblzma-5.dll"
│  Access is denied.

I tried following the advice in this post,and this post. I found an open issue on the topic here.

I tried the following, which lead to an error:

julia> Base.compilecache(Base.identify_package("GR"))
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching compilecache(::Nothing)

Closest candidates are:
  compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::String)
   @ Base loading.jl:2335
  compilecache(::Base.PkgId)
   @ Base loading.jl:2326
  compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::String, ::IO, ::IO, ::Bool)
   @ Base loading.jl:2335
  ...

Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope
   @ REPL[4]:1

This abrupt change in behavior is very frustrating. Any help would be appreciated.

Update

Same problem for Julia 1.9.4.

nilshg · February 22, 2024, 11:15am

See my answer here and the whole thread:

In short: delete the artifact and reinstall it with Julia 1.9.

Christopher_Fisher · February 22, 2024, 11:25am

Thank you for your reply. Sorry I did not see the step of deleting the artifacts. I deleted .julia/artifacts and tried again with Julia 1.9.4. Unfortunately, that did not work:

Error Trace

Is there any other course of action?

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.9.4
Commit 8e5136fa29 (2023-11-14 08:46 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: 8 × 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-14.0.6 (ORCJIT, tigerlake)
  Threads: 4 on 8 virtual cores
Environment:
  JULIA_EDITOR = code
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 4
  Downloaded artifact: Pixman
  Downloaded artifact: XML2
  Downloaded artifact: Gettext
  Downloaded artifact: OpenSSL
  Downloaded artifact: FFMPEG
  Downloaded artifact: Libgcrypt
  Downloaded artifact: Xorg_xkeyboard_config
  Downloaded artifact: LLVMOpenMP
  Downloaded artifact: LAME
  Downloaded artifact: Libiconv
  Downloaded artifact: Qt6Base
  Downloaded artifact: libvorbis
  Downloaded artifact: Glib
Precompiling project...
  ✗ Plots
  ✗ Plots → UnitfulExt
  102 dependencies successfully precompiled in 123 seconds. 83 already precompiled.
  2 dependencies errored. To see a full report either run `import Pkg; Pkg.precompile()` or load the packages
julia> using Plots
[ Info: Precompiling Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80]
ERROR: LoadError: InitError: UndefVarError: `GR_jll` not defined
Stacktrace:
  [1] __init__()
    @ GR.GRPreferences C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\GR\xEQ37\src\preferences.jl:64
  [2] register_restored_modules(sv::Core.SimpleVector, pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1115
  [3] _include_from_serialized(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, ocachepath::String, depmods::Vector{Any})
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1061
  [4] _require_search_from_serialized(pkg::Base.PkgId, sourcepath::String, build_id::UInt128)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1506
  [5] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId, env::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1783
  [6] _require_prelocked(uuidkey::Base.PkgId, env::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1660
  [7] macro expansion
    @ .\loading.jl:1648 [inlined]
  [8] macro expansion
    @ .\lock.jl:267 [inlined]
  [9] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1611
 [10] top-level scope
    @ C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\Plots\HyyIK\src\backends.jl:380
 [11] eval
    @ .\boot.jl:370 [inlined]
 [12] _initialize_backend(pkg::Plots.GRBackend)
    @ Plots C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\Plots\HyyIK\src\backends.jl:379
 [13] backend(pkg::Plots.GRBackend)
    @ Plots C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\Plots\HyyIK\src\backends.jl:244
 [14] backend(sym::Symbol)
    @ Plots C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\Plots\HyyIK\src\backends.jl:254
 [15] load_default_backend()
    @ Plots C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\Plots\HyyIK\src\backends.jl:201
 [16] backend()
    @ Plots C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\Plots\HyyIK\src\backends.jl:232
 [17] top-level scope
    @ C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\Plots\HyyIK\src\init.jl:91
 [18] include(mod::Module, _path::String)
    @ Base .\Base.jl:457
 [19] include(x::String)
    @ Plots C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\Plots\HyyIK\src\Plots.jl:1
 [20] top-level scope
    @ C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\Plots\HyyIK\src\Plots.jl:176
 [21] include
    @ .\Base.jl:457 [inlined]
 [22] include_package_for_output(pkg::Base.PkgId, input::String, depot_path::Vector{String}, dl_load_path::Vector{String}, load_path::Vector{String}, 
concrete_deps::Vector{Pair{Base.PkgId, UInt128}}, source::Nothing)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:2049
 [23] top-level scope
    @ stdin:3
during initialization of module GRPreferences
in expression starting at C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\Plots\HyyIK\src\init.jl:91
in expression starting at C:\Users\christopher.fisher\.julia\packages\Plots\HyyIK\src\Plots.jl:1
in expression starting at stdin:3
ERROR: Failed to precompile Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80] to "C:\\Users\\christopher.fisher\\.julia\\compiled\\v1.9\\Plots\\jl_D605.tmp".
Stacktrace:
  [1] error(s::String)
    @ Base .\error.jl:35
  [2] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::IO, internal_stdout::IO, keep_loaded_modules::Bool)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:2294
  [3] compilecache
    @ .\loading.jl:2167 [inlined]
  [4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId, env::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1805
  [5] _require_prelocked(uuidkey::Base.PkgId, env::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1660
  [6] macro expansion
    @ .\loading.jl:1648 [inlined]
  [7] macro expansion
    @ .\lock.jl:267 [inlined]
  [8] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1611
  [9] eval
    @ .\boot.jl:370 [inlined]
 [10] eval
    @ .\Base.jl:68 [inlined]
 [11] repleval(m::Module, code::Expr, #unused#::String)
    @ VSCodeServer c:\Users\christopher.fisher\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.73.2\scripts\packages\VSCodeServer\src\repl.jl:229       
 [12] (::VSCodeServer.var"#110#112"{Module, Expr, REPL.LineEditREPL, REPL.LineEdit.Prompt})()
    @ VSCodeServer c:\Users\christopher.fisher\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.73.2\scripts\packages\VSCodeServer\src\repl.jl:192       
 [13] with_logstate(f::Function, logstate::Any)
    @ Base.CoreLogging .\logging.jl:514
 [14] with_logger
    @ .\logging.jl:626 [inlined]
 [15] (::VSCodeServer.var"#109#111"{Module, Expr, REPL.LineEditREPL, REPL.LineEdit.Prompt})()
    @ VSCodeServer c:\Users\christopher.fisher\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.73.2\scripts\packages\VSCodeServer\src\repl.jl:193       
 [16] #invokelatest#2
    @ .\essentials.jl:819 [inlined]
 [17] invokelatest(::Any)
    @ Base .\essentials.jl:816
 [18] macro expansion
    @ c:\Users\christopher.fisher\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.73.2\scripts\packages\VSCodeServer\src\eval.jl:34 [inlined]
 [19] (::VSCodeServer.var"#62#63")()
    @ VSCodeServer .\task.jl:514

julia> Base.compilecache(Base.identify_package("GR"))
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching compilecache(::Nothing)

Closest candidates are:
  compilecache(::Base.PkgId)
   @ Base loading.jl:2153
  compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::IO)
   @ Base loading.jl:2153
  compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::IO, ::IO)
   @ Base loading.jl:2153
  ...

Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope
   @ REPL[6]:1

giordano · February 22, 2024, 11:28am

Well, now the error is different, isn’t it?

Christopher_Fisher · February 22, 2024, 11:40am

Yes. The error is different. So you are right that one problem was fixed. However, the proposed solution for ERROR: LoadError: InitError: UndefVarError: GR_jll not defined did not work, which means I cannot make plots. At the bottom of the error trace you can see the following:


julia> Base.compilecache(Base.identify_package("GR"))
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching compilecache(::Nothing)

Closest candidates are:
  compilecache(::Base.PkgId)
   @ Base loading.jl:2153
  compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::IO)
   @ Base loading.jl:2153
  compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::IO, ::IO)
   @ Base loading.jl:2153
  ...

Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope
   @ REPL[6]:1

I’m not sure why there is now a method error, and what syntax to use instead.

Christopher_Fisher · February 22, 2024, 11:49am

Ok. The problem was that I did not manually download GR. Here is a summary of what worked for me:

delete .julia/artifacts
downgrade to Julia 1.9.x
add Plots GR
Base.compilecache(Base.identify_package(“GR”))
upgrade back to Julia 1.10.x

nilshg · February 22, 2024, 11:59am

You should be able to use 1.10 now - 1.9 is just needed to install the artifact in a way that allows you access.

Christopher_Fisher · February 22, 2024, 12:09pm

Fantastic. Thank you again for your help!

I updated the solution accordingly.