Having Issues With Matplotlib.pyplot Over Ssh

When I run matplotlib.pyplot in ipython on python 3.5 over ssh, I get this error message, and I'm not sure what to make of it. In [1]: import matplotlib In [2]: from matplotlib i

Solution 1:

For those who run across this in the future, I was getting this bug on OSX with a user who hadn't actually logged into their system. A new user was added to an OSX laptop, I ssh'd into it, installed matplotlib over ssh, then tried to graph. The system detected that the user account had never been logged into via the GUI and killed Python.

I'm not sure what exactly in the OS was crashing Python, but simply logging into that user account via the GUI (and following the user account setup tutorial, which I think is key) solved the problem for me.