Plots not precompiling on macos apple silicon

General Usage
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Hi, recently the plotting library broke down after an update of julia to 1.9.4 using homebrew on macos apple silicon. The precompilation fails:

using Plots
[ Info: Precompiling Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80]
ERROR: LoadError: InitError: UndefVarError: `GR_jll` not defined
Stacktrace:
  [1] __init__()
    @ GR.GRPreferences ~/.julia/packages/GR/yBe3g/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
    @ ~/.julia/packages/Plots/sxUvK/src/backends.jl:402
 [11] eval
    @ ./boot.jl:370 [inlined]
 [12] _initialize_backend(pkg::Plots.GRBackend)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/sxUvK/src/backends.jl:401
 [13] backend(pkg::Plots.GRBackend)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/sxUvK/src/backends.jl:266
 [14] backend(sym::Symbol)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/sxUvK/src/backends.jl:276
 [15] load_default_backend()
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/sxUvK/src/backends.jl:207
 [16] backend()
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/sxUvK/src/backends.jl:254
 [17] top-level scope
    @ ~/.julia/packages/Plots/sxUvK/src/init.jl:83
 [18] include(mod::Module, _path::String)
    @ Base ./Base.jl:457
 [19] include(x::String)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/sxUvK/src/Plots.jl:1
 [20] top-level scope
    @ ~/.julia/packages/Plots/sxUvK/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 /Users/ole/.julia/packages/Plots/sxUvK/src/init.jl:83
in expression starting at /Users/ole/.julia/packages/Plots/sxUvK/src/Plots.jl:1
in expression starting at stdin:3
ERROR: Failed to precompile Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80] to "/Users/ole/.julia/compiled/v1.9/Plots/jl_Q8YgWp".
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

Any idea?

2

Update: reinstalling julia and removing ~/.julia fixed the problem.

3

Hi. We’re sorry that plotting library broke for you. Note that Plots.jl is one of many plotting libraries available for Julia. Note that homebrew is not an officially supported method of installing Julia, and that you may need to seek help from homebrew.

  1. Could you provide the output of versioninfo() and `using Pkg; Pkg.status()"?
  2. Depending on whether you used the cask or not, your situation might be better resolved by the homebrew maintainers regarding their formula.
  3. You might want to try configuring GR.jl directly. In particular, try this sequence.
using GR # install, precompile might fail
using GR # this will load something anyways
GR.GRPreferences.diagnostics()
  1. See the GR.jl README for further details on configuration.

Provide all output directly from console from the requested commands above. Thank you. Have a nice day!