Just downloaded Julia, want to add Plots package, all I get is crashes

New to Julia
1

Hello,
I just downloaded Julia so I am a total noob.
I click the Julia.exe
then “]” to enter the pkg > REPL
then I write “add Plots” press enter
Since 20 minitues it is frozen in this stage
I have no idea what I could have done wrong, please help

  • Windows 10 machine
  • Intel i7 CPU
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2

I uninstalled Julia 1.6.1 and switched to 1.4.2 now it works.

3

you don’t have to wait for the auto-precompile. See if using Plots works in your 1.6.1.

I’ve noticed sometimes the auto-precompile fails because too many parallel julia processes are running

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4

You mean I without typing add Plots first, just going straight with using Plots ?

5

after adding Plots, you can Ctrl-C to kill the auto-precompile, or when you see it has failed/frozen, you can just close the window and re-open Julia then using Plots. The precompilation failure is separate from add – you have the pkg added just fine.

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6

Thank you, now I get it. Will try it out.

7

Unfortunately it didn’t work, produces this error:

               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.6.1 (2021-04-23)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia> using Plots
[ Info: Precompiling Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80]

Please submit a bug report with steps to reproduce this fault, and any error messages that follow (in their entirety). Thanks.
Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION with steps to reproduce this fault, and any error messages that follow (in their entirety). Thanks.
Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Please sub
Please submit a bug repor at 0x0 --  at 0x0 -- it a bug report with steps to reproduce this fault, and any error messages that follow (in their entirety). Thanks.
Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at 0x0 --  at 0x0 -- CESS_VIOLATION with steps to reproduce this fault, and any error messages that follow (in their entirety). Thanks.
Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at 0x0 -- unknown function (ip: 0000000000000000)
in expression starting at C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\Bzip2_jll\aAOqr\src\Bzip2_jll.jl:5
in expression starting at C:\Users\YavorERROR: LoadError: LoadError: Failed to precompile Bzip2_jll [6e34b625-4abd-537c-b88f-471c36dfa7a0] to C:\Users\zama\.julia\compiled\v1.6\Bzip2_jll\jl_61F1.tmp.
Stacktrace:
  [1] error(s::String)
    @ Base .\error.jl:33
  [2] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::Base.TTY, internal_stdout::Base.TTY)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1360
  [3] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1306
  [4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1021
  [5] require(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:914
  [6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:901
  [7] include(mod::Module, _path::String)
    @ Base .\Base.jl:386
  [8] top-level scope
    @ C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\JLLWrappers\bkwIo\src\toplevel_generators.jl:170
  [9] include
    @ .\Base.jl:386 [inlined]
 [10] 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, UInt64}}, source::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1213
 [11] top-level scope
    @ none:1
 [12] eval
    @ .\boot.jl:360 [inlined]
 [13] eval(x::Expr)
    @ Base.MainInclude .\client.jl:446
 [14] top-level scope
    @ none:1
in expression starting at C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\FreeType2_jll\K7fyn\src\wrappers\x86_64-w64-mingw32.jl:4
in expression starting at C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\FreeType2_jll\K7fyn\src\FreeType2_jll.jl:2
ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: Failed to precompile FreeType2_jll [d7e528f0-a631-5988-bf34-fe36492bcfd7] to C:\Users\zama\.julia\compiled\v1.6\FreeType2_jll\jl_59B3.tmp.
Stacktrace:
  [1] error(s::String)
    @ Base .\error.jl:33
  [2] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::Base.TTY, internal_stdout::Base.TTY)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1360
  [3] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1306
  [4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1021
  [5] require(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:914
  [6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:901
  [7] include(mod::Module, _path::String)
    @ Base .\Base.jl:386
  [8] top-level scope
    @ C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\JLLWrappers\bkwIo\src\toplevel_generators.jl:170
  [9] include
    @ .\Base.jl:386 [inlined]
 [10] 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, UInt64}}, source::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1213
 [11] top-level scope
    @ none:1
 [12] eval
    @ .\boot.jl:360 [inlined]
 [13] eval(x::Expr)
    @ Base.MainInclude .\client.jl:446
 [14] top-level scope
    @ none:1
in expression starting at C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\libass_jll\uUbBl\src\wrappers\x86_64-w64-mingw32.jl:4
in expression starting at C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\libass_jll\uUbBl\src\libass_jll.jl:2
ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: Failed to precompile libass_jll [0ac62f75-1d6f-5e53-bd7c-93b484bb37c0] to C:\Users\zama\.julia\compiled\v1.6\libass_jll\jl_5137.tmp.
Stacktrace:
  [1] error(s::String)
    @ Base .\error.jl:33
  [2] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::Base.TTY, internal_stdout::Base.TTY)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1360
  [3] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1306
  [4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1021
  [5] require(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:914
  [6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:901
  [7] include(mod::Module, _path::String)
    @ Base .\Base.jl:386
  [8] top-level scope
    @ C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\JLLWrappers\bkwIo\src\toplevel_generators.jl:170
  [9] include
    @ .\Base.jl:386 [inlined]
 [10] 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, UInt64}}, source::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1213
 [11] top-level scope
    @ none:1
 [12] eval
    @ .\boot.jl:360 [inlined]
 [13] eval(x::Expr)
    @ Base.MainInclude .\client.jl:446
 [14] top-level scope
    @ none:1
in expression starting at C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\FFMPEG_jll\xCSqL\src\wrappers\x86_64-w64-mingw32.jl:4
in expression starting at C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\FFMPEG_jll\xCSqL\src\FFMPEG_jll.jl:2
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile FFMPEG_jll [b22a6f82-2f65-5046-a5b2-351ab43fb4e5] to C:\Users\zama\.julia\compiled\v1.6\FFMPEG_jll\jl_48AC.tmp.
Stacktrace:
  [1] error(s::String)
    @ Base .\error.jl:33
  [2] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::Base.TTY, internal_stdout::Base.TTY)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1360
  [3] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1306
  [4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1021
  [5] require(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:914
  [6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:901
  [7] include
    @ .\Base.jl:386 [inlined]
  [8] 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, UInt64}}, source::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1213
  [9] top-level scope
    @ none:1
 [10] eval
    @ .\boot.jl:360 [inlined]
 [11] eval(x::Expr)
    @ Base.MainInclude .\client.jl:446
 [12] top-level scope
    @ none:1
in expression starting at C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\FFMPEG\aazvf\src\FFMPEG.jl:1
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile FFMPEG [c87230d0-a227-11e9-1b43-d7ebe4e7570a] to C:\Users\zama\.julia\compiled\v1.6\FFMPEG\jl_45EE.tmp.
Stacktrace:
  [1] error(s::String)
    @ Base .\error.jl:33
  [2] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::Base.TTY, internal_stdout::Base.TTY)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1360
  [3] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1306
  [4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1021
  [5] require(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:914
  [6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:901
  [7] include
    @ .\Base.jl:386 [inlined]
  [8] 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, UInt64}}, source::Nothing)
    @ Base .\loading.jl:1213
  [9] top-level scope
    @ none:1
 [10] eval
    @ .\boot.jl:360 [inlined]
 [11] eval(x::Expr)
    @ Base.MainInclude .\client.jl:446
 [12] top-level scope
    @ none:1
in expression starting at C:\Users\zama\.julia\packages\Plots\lzHOt\src\Plots.jl:1
ERROR: Failed to precompile Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80] to C:\Users\zama\.julia\compiled\v1.6\Plots\jl_BFE4.tmp.
Stacktrace:
 [1] error(s::String)
   @ Base .\error.jl:33
 [2] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::Base.TTY, internal_stdout::Base.TTY)
   @ Base .\loading.jl:1360
 [3] compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String)
   @ Base .\loading.jl:1306
 [4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
   @ Base .\loading.jl:1021
 [5] require(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
   @ Base .\loading.jl:914
 [6] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
   @ Base .\loading.jl:901

julia>
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8

now that’s some weird error message worth opening an issue on github maybe

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9

This also shouldn’t be happening. Worth a bug report if you’ve seen it in a stable release or recent master

10

https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/2404

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11

Ah I thought you were referring to more typical usage. That issue does highlight a problem in shared resource systems where Sys.CPU_THREADS returns an inaccurate number.

Worth noting for others suffering that, that there is a workaround in the issue.

But that’s not the main issue in this thread. That seems much more broken.

I’d recommend uninstalling and reinstalling 1.6

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12

Do you mean uninstalling 1.6.1 (the current stable release) and reinstalling it? I did that two times already, doesn’t work. Or is there some other version called 1.6?

13

Sounds like you did the right thing, but just checking, did you install the 64-bit version? Assuming your system is 64-bit.

versioninfo() will give you that info

14

Yes, the 64-bit version on a 64-bit Windows 10 machine

15

@zamazalotta Please consider using the Chocolatey package manager to install and update Julia. It solves a lot of problems and I use it regularly.