Plotting with Plots.jl does not work anymore

[andreasvarga]

I performed several experiments with the BifurcationKit.jl package and also generated some plots. However, after a certain moment, I was not able to plot anything more, all generated plots were blank windows with a title like GKS QtTerm(28). I recall the last successful plot had GKS QtTerm(12)!

I am obtaining such plots, with Julia 10.4.2, just typing

using Plots
plot(rand(5))

I updated to Julia 11.2 and receive the same.

I would appreciate any hint how to recover from this status.

[BeastyBlacksmith]

Can you give us the output when you run versioninfo()?

Did you get any other output in the terminal?

CC @jheinen

[andreasvarga]

After restarting Windows 11, Plots works as expected. The version which I used were:

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.10.4
Commit 48d4fd4843 (2024-06-04 10:41 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: 16 × Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 16 virtual cores)

and

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.11.2
Commit 5e9a32e7af (2024-12-01 20:02 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: 16 × Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LLVM: libLLVM-16.0.6 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 16 virtual cores)

I intended to close this issue, although I found the behaviour very disturbing.