Comment 7 for bug 1349718

actually I remember a bit better now what I did a couple months ago, it was trying to install newer versions of the GSHHS coastline in /usr/share/gmt/coast/ on Lucid, which caused similar trouble. The reason was the download script which used to be supplied linked to ftp sites which no longer had the right data. The solution that time was to copy the data over and do the plotting step in 12.04.

and to clarify the error messages above, it's on 14.04 & I have pscoast running forever at 100% cpu. I installed gmt-gshhs-full and -high in addition to -low. But it always happens, even with -low.

Hamish