It seems that the problem is in Blink/src/AtomShell/process.jl. The error report indicates line 62 there. So I tried running some lines by hand:
julia> port() = rand(2_000:10_000) # line 57 port (generic function with 1 method) julia> p = port() # line 72 5287 julia> connect(ip"127.0.0.1", p) # line 76 ERROR: connect: connection refused (ECONNREFUSED) in yieldto at ./event.jl:136 in _init at /opt/julia/0.5.0/lib/julia/sys.so:? in wait at ./event.jl:169 in wait at ./event.jl:27 in _init at /opt/julia/0.5.0/lib/julia/sys.so:? in stream_wait at ./stream.jl:44 in wait_connected at ./stream.jl:265 in connect at ./stream.jl:960 [inlined] in connect(::IPv4, ::Int64) at ./socket.jl:677 julia> On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 1:07:23 PM UTC-5, Tom Breloff wrote: > > Sounds like progress. You might try restarting Julia, and also try the > plotting command a few times. Blink is known to have a race condition on > startup that sometimes produces this sort of error. > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Kostas Oikonomou <kostas.oi...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> Thanks. Before reading your post, I had added an "if is_bsd()" statement >> to Blink/src/AtomShell/install.jl, and I set arch to "ia32" as FreeBSD >> has default support for 32-bit Linux. >> >>