I think the issue was that I was running on a system which had a
relocated sage v2.9.3 prior to a relocated sage v2.10.1 (current
version) and the location of the matplotlibrc file changed between the
two sage version. All I did was remove the ~/.matplotlib and the
~/.sage directories and now plotting works.
On Feb 10, 5:41 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
dortmund.de> wrote:
> On Feb 10, 10:07 pm, gri6507 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I am running into a permissions problem on a SAGE install relocated by
> > "make install" which was run as root and installed into DESTDIR=/usr/
> > lib. Below is an example of a permissions problem. It looks like a
> > writable directory check is failing. Which directory is it? Which
> > directories need to be writable by everyone when sage is relocated?
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>sage
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > | SAGE Version 2.10.1, Release Date: 2008-02-02 |
> > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Setting permissions of DOT_SAGE directory so only you can read and
> > write it.
>
> we change the default permission of $HOME/.sage to "700" now since
> there are various keys stored in that place. I assume matplotlib has a
> hard-coded reference to the root matplotlib config file. There was
> some email earlier this week about making matplotlib use a better
> config system, but I don't have a link handy.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> > sage: a = x^2;
> > sage: show(plot(a))
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> Traceback (most recent call
> > last)
>
> > /home/gri6507/<ipython console> in <module>()
>
> > /usr/lib/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/misc/
> > functional.py in show(x, *args, **kwds)
> > 914 if not isinstance(x, (sage.interfaces.expect.Expect,
> > sage.interfaces.expect.ExpectElement)):
> > 915 try:
> > --> 916 return x.show(*args, **kwds)
> > 917 except AttributeError:
> > 918 pass
>
> > /usr/lib/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/plot/plot.py in
> > show(self, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, figsize, filename, dpi, axes,
> > axes_labels, frame, fontsize, aspect_ratio)
> > 1246 self.save(filename, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, figsize,
> > dpi=dpi, axes=axes,
> > 1247 frame=frame, fontsize=fontsize,
> > -> 1248 aspect_ratio=aspect_ratio)
> > 1249 os.system('%s %s 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null &'%
> > (sage.misc.viewer.browser(), filename))
> > 1250
>
> > /usr/lib/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sage/plot/plot.py in
> > save(self, filename, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, figsize, figure, sub,
> > savenow, dpi, axes, axes_labels, fontsize, frame, verify,
> > aspect_ratio)
> > 1340 axes = self.__show_axes
> > 1341
> > -> 1342 from matplotlib.figure import Figure
> > 1343 if filename is None:
> > 1344 filename = sage.misc.misc.graphics_filename()
>
> > /usr/lib/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py
> > in <module>()
> > 8 import artist
> > 9 from artist import Artist
> > ---> 10 from axes import Axes, Subplot, PolarSubplot, PolarAxes
> > 11 from cbook import flatten, allequal, Stack, iterable, dedent
> > 12 import _image
>
> > /usr/lib/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py in
> > <module>()
> > 11 from matplotlib import artist as martist
> > 12 from matplotlib import agg
> > ---> 13 from matplotlib import axis as maxis
> > 14 from matplotlib import cbook
> > 15 from matplotlib import collections as mcoll
>
> > /usr/lib/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py in
> > <module>()
> > 18 from transforms import Value, blend_xy_sep_transform,\
> > 19 translation_transform, bbox_all, identity_transform
> > ---> 20 from font_manager import FontProperties
> > 21 from text import Text, TextWithDash, _process_text_args
> > 22 from patches import bbox_artist
>
> > /usr/lib/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/
> > font_manager.py in <module>()
> > 1112
> > 1113 else:
> > -> 1114 _fmcache = os.path.join(get_configdir(),
> > 'fontManager.cache')
> > 1115
> > 1116 fontManager = None
>
> > /usr/lib/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py
> > in wrapper(*args, **kwargs)
> > 205 assert(callable, func)
> > 206 def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
> > --> 207 ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
> > 208
> > 209 if (always or not wrapper._spoke):
>
> > /usr/lib/sage/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py
> > in _get_configdir()
> > 398 if os.path.exists(p):
> > 399 if not _is_writable_dir(p):
> > --> 400 raise RuntimeError("'%s' is not a writable dir;
> > you must set %s/.matplotlib to be a writable dir. You can also set
> > environment variable MPLCONFIGDIR to any writable directory where you
> > want matplotlib data stored "%h)
> > 401 else:
> > 402 if not _is_writable_dir(h):
>
> > <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: not enough arguments for format string
> > sage:
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