# Issue with Plots

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-with-plots/66460>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** plotting\
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-with-plots/66460 "2021-08-16T03:27:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![juliauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@juliauser](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliauser)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-with-plots/66460/1 "2021-08-16T03:27:39Z")

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Unexpectedly, Plots stopped working. I use gr() and get this message:  
could not load library “libGR.so”  
dlopen(libGR.so.dylib, 1): image not found

using  
ENV[“GRDIR”]=“”  
Pkg.build(“GR”)  
has not helped.

When I try with pyplot() I get:  
No working GUI backend found for matplotlib

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-with-plots/66460/2 "2021-08-16T09:58:43Z")

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Perhaps you find the solution here:

> [@Help! Plots not loading](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-plots-not-loading/49941):
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> I’m having trouble with the GR backend for Plots using Plots [Info: Precompiling Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80] Your GR installation is incomplete. Rerun build step for GR package. ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: InitError: Evaluation into the closed module `GR` breaks incremental compilation because the side effects will not be permanent. This is likely due to some other module mutating `GR` with `eval` during precompilation - don't do this. I tried Pkg.build("GR")

This thread recently popped by someone who found his solution there. So it seems, that you are currently not alone with this issue.