[BUG] Plots fails to precompile on MacOS Apple Silicon with Julia 1.10.4

[hydrosquall]

Details

When running a "hello world" introduction to plotting in Pluto notebooks locally https://featured.plutojl.org/plot/plots.jl , I get an error when installing the Plots dependency . It prevents all cells from running.

I can reproduce the same error logs by running ] precompile Plots in the REPL.

Click expand for full error message.

ERROR: The following 1 direct dependency failed to precompile:

Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80]

Failed to precompile Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80] to "/Users/cameron.yick/.julia/compiled/v1.10/Plots/jl_4puoUQ".
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile Glib_jll [7746bdde-850d-59dc-9ae8-88ece973131d] to "/Users/cameron.yick/.julia/compiled/v1.10/Glib_jll/jl_AzODk1".
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:2468
  [3] compilecache
    @ ./loading.jl:2340 [inlined]
  [4] (::Base.var"#968#969"{Base.PkgId})()
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1974
  [5] mkpidlock(f::Base.var"#968#969"{Base.PkgId}, at::String, pid::Int32; kwopts::@Kwargs{stale_age::Int64, wait::Bool})
    @ FileWatching.Pidfile /Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.10/FileWatching/src/pidfile.jl:93
  [6] #mkpidlock#6
    @ /Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.10/FileWatching/src/pidfile.jl:88 [inlined]
  [7] trymkpidlock(::Function, ::Vararg{Any}; kwargs::@Kwargs{stale_age::Int64})
    @ FileWatching.Pidfile /Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.10/FileWatching/src/pidfile.jl:111
  [8] #invokelatest#2
    @ ./essentials.jl:894 [inlined]
  [9] invokelatest
    @ ./essentials.jl:889 [inlined]
 [10] maybe_cachefile_lock(f::Base.var"#968#969"{Base.PkgId}, pkg::Base.PkgId, srcpath::String; stale_age::Int64)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:2983
 [11] maybe_cachefile_lock
    @ ./loading.jl:2980 [inlined]
 [12] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId, env::String)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1970
 [13] __require_prelocked(uuidkey::Base.PkgId, env::String)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1812
 [14] #invoke_in_world#3
    @ ./essentials.jl:926 [inlined]
 [15] invoke_in_world
    @ ./essentials.jl:923 [inlined]
 [16] _require_prelocked(uuidkey::Base.PkgId, env::String)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1803
 [17] macro expansion
    @ ./loading.jl:1790 [inlined]
 [18] macro expansion
    @ ./lock.jl:267 [inlined]
 [19] __require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1753
 [20] #invoke_in_world#3
    @ ./essentials.jl:926 [inlined]
 [21] invoke_in_world
    @ ./essentials.jl:923 [inlined]
 [22] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1746
 [23] include(mod::Module, _path::String)
    @ Base ./Base.jl:495
 [24] top-level scope
    @ ~/.julia/packages/JLLWrappers/pG9bm/src/toplevel_generators.jl:192
 [25] include
    @ ./Base.jl:495 [inlined]
 [26] 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::String)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:2222
 [27] top-level scope
    @ stdin:3
in expression starting at /Users/cameron.yick/.julia/packages/Cairo_jll/a0woY/src/wrappers/aarch64-apple-darwin.jl:4
in expression starting at /Users/cameron.yick/.julia/packages/Cairo_jll/a0woY/src/Cairo_jll.jl:2
in expression starting at stdin:3

The error repeats for several other libraries with similar text (omitted for brevity), and persists after retrying/restarting the server.

  ✗ Glib_jll
  ✗ Cairo_jll
  ✗ Qt6Base_jll
  ✗ HarfBuzz_jll
  ✗ Qt6ShaderTools_jll
  ✗ libass_jll
  ✗ Pango_jll
  ✗ Qt6Declarative_jll
  ✗ FFMPEG_jll
  ✗ FFMPEG
  ✗ GR_jll
  ✗ GR
  ✗ Plots
  ✗ Plots → UnitfulExt

Backends

This bug occurs on ( insert x below )

Backend	yes	no	untested
gr (default)	x
plotlyjs	x

Versions

Plots.jl version: v1.40.5
Backend version (]st -m PlotlyJS): v0.18.13
Output of versioninfo():

Julia Version 1.10.4
Commit 48d4fd48430 (2024-06-04 10:41 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (arm64-apple-darwin22.4.0)
  CPU: 10 × Apple M1 Max
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, apple-m1)
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 8 virtual cores)

Related

• This error looks similar to Failed to precompile Plots on Julia v1.10.3 #4939, except I am on Mac rather than Windows, and I'm using Julia 1.10.4 instead of 1.10.3
• I tried the results of this discourse discussion ( https://discourse.julialang.org/t/failed-to-precompile-plots-jl/89802/4 ) , where the error seemed to be a failed download. However, that solution didn't help here
• I found ON a mac M2 Plots does not compile because MMFPEG fails to find the architecture. JuliaIO/FFMPEG.jl#58 in the FFMPEG repository citing a number of Apple Silicon specific issues, but it doesn't directly apply as I'm not using the CSV package.

[hydrosquall]

I don't know what changed since I already tried restarting the Julia session several times yesterday, but I restarted my computer last night, and the notebook fully works today! Apologies for the noise.