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Re: Plot not working on macOS High Sierra
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Andreas Weber |
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Re: Plot not working on macOS High Sierra |
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Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:24:58 +0100 |
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Hi Bernard, please keep the mailinglist in CC
Am 11.02.2018 um 15:20 schrieb Logon E-mail:
> Thank you for replying. The problem appears to have been resolved.
>
> I suspect that it was caused by the installation of an OS update in January.
> This causes Octave to re-process the font library (or something similar).
> This takes a long time and while it is happening the program looks to be
> unresponsive as far as the OS is concerned.
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> I just did two things: (1) I ran Octave in a different user on my iMac and it
> worked, (2) I re-ran on the main user and let it remain in “unresponsive”
> status for longer and then it ran correctly.
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> Patience is a virtue.
This sounds like the fontconfig cache was been rebuilt. This is a known
problem on Windows and the first time I've heard from it on Mac.
-- Andy