JOSS Review: Plotting Error on Ubuntu Subshell for Windows

[Andrew-S-Rosen]

RE: openjournals/joss-reviews#3089

Describe the bug
When I use ifermi plot, I receive the following error message:

Start : This command cannot be run due to the error: The system cannot find the file specified.
At line:1 char:1
+ Start "file:///home/arosen/ifermi/fermi-surface.html"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Start-Process], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartProcessCommand

To Reproduce

1. Install IFermi
2. Run ifermi plot on an example vasprun.xml (e.g. vasprun.zip).

Expected behavior
A plot. There is no plot.

Hypothesis
Again, perhaps this is a Windows thing. I am running IFermi on the Ubuntu subsystem for Windows since two of my common Linux workstation had issues with the installation (see #17).

[utf]

Hi @arosen93, that is a very strange error message. It doesn't look like something from python. Is there anything else printed from that command? Lastly, can you confirm that no files have been written to: /home/arosen/ifermi/ ?

[Andrew-S-Rosen]

@utf: My apologies -- I didn't see the .html file that was actually generated. It worked perfectly despite the strange Ubuntu error message! I will admit, I have no clue what it's complaining about, but the image looks great!

Edit: It was because it was trying to visualize the plot in a web browser, which did not exist on my machine. See #21.