Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib requires write perms and space in $HOME

2012-06-18 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > However, should it be a full-out error?  Is it possible to have mpl run > without a font cache? I'm sure we could, but from an implementation perspective it would probably be easier to spoof it with a virtual filesystem and files using strin

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib requires write perms and space in $HOME

2012-06-18 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:41 AM, John Hunter wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Martin Mokrejs > wrote: > > > Hmm. Could it be by default the current working directory instead? Or, > try/else added to the code > > which would try to write into cwd if $HOME (aka $MPLCONFIGDIR) returns > an

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib requires write perms and space in $HOME

2012-06-18 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Martin Mokrejs wrote: > Hmm. Could it be by default the current working directory instead? Or, > try/else added to the code > which would try to write into cwd if $HOME (aka $MPLCONFIGDIR) returns an > error? The stuff we store there is meant to be persistent b

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib requires write perms and space in $HOME

2012-06-18 Thread Martin Mokrejs
John Hunter wrote: > > > > > On Jun 18, 2012, at 6:19 AM, Martin Mokrejs > wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am running some script in /mnt/blah and while my $HOME disk on a >> different device filled up >> because of some other reason. But my script ran in /mnt/blah died as well >> while there is p

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib requires write perms and space in $HOME

2012-06-18 Thread John Hunter
On Jun 18, 2012, at 6:19 AM, Martin Mokrejs wrote: > Hi, > I am running some script in /mnt/blah and while my $HOME disk on a different > device filled up > because of some other reason. But my script ran in /mnt/blah died as well > while there is plenty > of space. Here is the stacktrace.

[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib requires write perms and space in $HOME

2012-06-18 Thread Martin Mokrejs
Hi, I am running some script in /mnt/blah and while my $HOME disk on a different device filled up because of some other reason. But my script ran in /mnt/blah died as well while there is plenty of space. Here is the stacktrace. import matplotlib File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/m