It's worth discussion. Should be simple enough to find the error and submit a pull request with any proposed changes:
$ git grep -n "failed to create a precompiled cache file" base/loading.jl:339: warn("require failed to create a precompiled cache file") base/loading.jl:366: error("__precompile__(true) but require failed to create a precompiled cache file") On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 4:22:32 PM UTC-4, Uwe Fechner wrote: > > Sorry for the noise, but this was just a programming error of me. > > Back to the orignal question: Would it be possible to improve the > following error message: > ERROR: LoadError: __precompile__(true) but require failed to create a > precompiled cache file > Such that it says: > Please try to restart Julia and try again? > > Uwe > > On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 9:51:33 PM UTC+2, Uwe Fechner wrote: >> >> Ok, I restarted Julia, tried to include my program again. It failed >> again. Did another Pkg.update() and tried to include my program again. >> It failed again, but now with a different error: >> >> julia> include("Plotting.jl") >> ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: LoadError: LoadError: MethodError: `*` has >> no method matching *(::Array{Any,1}, ::Array{Any,1}) >> Closest candidates are: >> *(::Any, ::Any, ::Any, ::Any...) >> >> *{T<:Union{JuMP.AbstractJuMPScalar,JuMP.GenericNormExpr{2,Float64,JuMP.Variable},JuMP.GenericNorm{P,Float64,JuMP.Variable},JuMP.NonlinearExpression}}(::Union{Array{T<:Union{JuMP.AbstractJuMPScalar,JuMP.GenericNormExpr{2,Float64,JuMP.Variable},JuMP.GenericNorm{P,Float64,JuMP.Variable},JuMP.NonlinearExpression},2},SparseMatrixCSC{T<:Union{JuMP.AbstractJuMPScalar,JuMP.GenericNormExpr{2,Float64,JuMP.Variable},JuMP.GenericNorm{P,Float64,JuMP.Variable},JuMP.NonlinearExpression},Ti<:Integer}}, >> >> ::Union{Array{T,1},Array{T,2},SparseMatrixCSC{Tv,Ti<:Integer}}) >> >> *{T<:Union{Complex{Float32},Complex{Float64},Float32,Float64},S}(::Union{DenseArray{T<:Union{Complex{Float32},Complex{Float64},Float32,Float64},2},SubArray{T<:Union{Complex{Float32},Complex{Float64},Float32,Float64},2,A<:DenseArray{T,N},I<:Tuple{Vararg{Union{Colon,Int64,Range{Int64}}}},LD}}, >> >> ::Union{DenseArray{S,1},SubArray{S,1,A<:DenseArray{T,N},I<:Tuple{Vararg{Union{Colon,Int64,Range{Int64}}}},LD}}) >> ... >> in call at /mnt/ssd/ufechner/00PythonSoftware/FastSim/src/Projects.jl:91 >> in call at /mnt/ssd/ufechner/00PythonSoftware/FastSim/src/Projects.jl:175 >> in include at ./boot.jl:261 >> in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:320 >> in require at ./loading.jl:259 >> in include at ./boot.jl:261 >> in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:320 >> in include at ./boot.jl:261 >> in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:320 >> in include at ./boot.jl:261 >> in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:320 >> while loading /mnt/ssd/ufechner/00PythonSoftware/FastSim/src/Projects.jl, >> in expression starting on line 336 >> while loading /mnt/ssd/ufechner/00PythonSoftware/FastSim/src/Model.jl, in >> expression starting on line 19 >> while loading >> /mnt/ssd/ufechner/00PythonSoftware/FastSim/src/Optimizer.jl, in expression >> starting on line 13 >> while loading /mnt/ssd/ufechner/00PythonSoftware/FastSim/src/Plotting.jl, >> in expression starting on line 22 >> >> julia> >> >> Any idea? >> >> On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 12:17:10 PM UTC+2, Steven G. Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Restart Julia and try again. (This is because the old Compat module was >>> already loaded, so the new precompiled one couldn't load.) >>> >>