BSOD while precompiling Plots package

cpet
Fri, 06 Jan 2023 22:01:45 +0000
New to Julia

I am a new user running Julia 1.8.3 on WSL2. I am installing the Plots package by running pkg> add Plots. The installation runs until partway through precompilation, then my computer crashes with a BSOD error code: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. I have been able to reproduce this twice. The first time something must have corrupted during the crash, as I couldn’t precompile anything – error message along the lines of “EOFError: read end of file” (I no longer have the entire error message, apologies!).

When I tried to install Plots again after removing ~.julia, my PC once again crashed with error MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. I tried running pkg> add Plots again, and it was successful.

Has anyone experienced this behaviour before? I’m not sure whether the memory problem is a WSL issue or a Julia one, and I wasn’t able to find helpful information on google. I’ve been using the same WSL setup for a while (mostly compiling C++ codes), and have never had my PC crash because of it.

Thanks!

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