Re: [Matplotlib-users] Error on matplotlib with the hist() method [ archlinux ]

[daryl h. <ak...@ia...>]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, David Kremer wrote:

>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py",

python 2.7 ^^

> RuntimeError: Could not open facefile /usr/lib/python2.6/site-
> packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/Vera.ttf; Cannot_Open_Resource

python 2.6 ^^

I believe this problem is fixed in the next matplotlib release.  A 
workaround is to remove a local font cache file:

rm ~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache

HTH,
daryl