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Kernel restart when creating plots with Matplotlib

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Searched the issues page for similar reports
Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
Could not reproduce inside jupyter qtconsole (if console-related)
Tried basic troubleshooting (if a bug/error)
- Restarted Spyder
- Reset preferences with spyder --reset
- Reinstalled the latest version of Anaconda
- Tried the other applicable steps from the Troubleshooting Guide
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Created 2 years ago
Comments:25 (8 by maintainers)

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22reactions

Eheran1commented, Nov 1, 2021

freetype downgrade from 2.11.0 to 2.10.4 solved the issue. To do this: conda install freetype=2.10.4

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Hawxxercommented, Oct 31, 2021

Same behaviour for jupyterlab, freetype 2.10.4 works, 2.11.0 not. Don’t know how to test ipython directly

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