[Matplotlib-users] basic pgf test fails

[Neal B. <ndb...@gm...>]

I tried the simple example, but all examples I try choke on savefig ('blah.pdf')
This is fedora20 linux, with pretty modern, complete texlive.

I tried rm'ing tex-cache

---------------- example.py
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.use("pgf")
pgf_with_rc_fonts = {
    "font.family": "serif",
    "font.serif": [],                   # use latex default serif font
    "font.sans-serif": ["DejaVu Sans"], # use a specific sans-serif font
}
mpl.rcParams.update(pgf_with_rc_fonts)

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.figure(figsize=(4.5,2.5))
plt.plot(range(5))
plt.text(0.5, 3., "serif")
plt.text(0.5, 2., "monospace", family="monospace")
plt.text(2.5, 2., "sans-serif", family="sans-serif")
plt.text(2.5, 1., "comic sans", family="Comic Sans MS")
plt.xlabel(u"µ is not $\\mu$")
plt.tight_layout(.5)
----------------------

python testpgf.py 
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py:758: UserWarning: 
Found matplotlib configuration in ~/.matplotlib/. To conform with the XDG base 
directory standard, this configuration location has been deprecated on Linux, 
and the new location is now '/home/nbecker/.config'/matplotlib/. Please move 
your configuration there to ensure that matplotlib will continue to find it in 
the future.
  _get_xdg_config_dir())
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "testpgf.py", line 20, in <module>
    plt.tight_layout(.5)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 1255, in 
tight_layout
    fig.tight_layout(pad=pad, h_pad=h_pad, w_pad=w_pad, rect=rect)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1600, in 
tight_layout
    renderer = get_renderer(self)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/tight_layout.py", line 
222, in get_renderer
    renderer = canvas.get_renderer()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py", 
line 925, in get_renderer
    return RendererPgf(self.figure, None, dummy=True)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py", 
line 409, in __init__
    self.latexManager = LatexManagerFactory.get_latex_manager()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py", 
line 223, in get_latex_manager
    new_inst = LatexManager()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py", 
line 305, in __init__
    cwd=self.tmpdir)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1308, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory