[BUG] `surface` errors when called after closing plot window

[nilshg]

Details

Happened on this in this Discourse post, where another user can also reproduce: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unmatched-dimensions-for-3d-plot/75180/15

surface fails when calling it after closing a QtTerm window.

On Windows:

julia> using Plots

julia> x = 1:5; y = 1:10; z = [x + y for x ∈ 1:5, y ∈ 1:10];

julia> surface(x, y, z') # fine 

# Close the Gtk window

julia> surface(x, y, z')
read: No error
Error showing value of type Plots.Plot{Plots.GRBackend}:
ERROR: GR3 error (/workspace/srcdir/gr/lib/gr3/gr3.c, l. 1886): invalid value

on Linux it doesn't fail but hangs indefinitely and then requires Ctrl+C:

julia> surface(x, y, z')
^C^C^C^C^C^CWARNING: Force throwing a SIGINT
Error showing value of type Plots.Plot{Plots.GRBackend}:
ERROR: InterruptException:

Backends

This bug occurs on ( insert x below )

Backend	yes	no	untested
gr (default)	x
pyplot			x
plotlyjs			x
pgfplotsx			x
unicodeplots			x
inspectdr			x
gaston			x

Versions

Plots.jl version: 1.25.6
Backend version (]st -m <backend(s)>): 0.63.1
Output of versioninfo():

Julia Version 1.7.1
Commit ac5cc99908 (2021-12-22 19:35 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-12.0.1 (ORCJIT, sandybridge)

(Also tested on Windows)

[t-bltg]

This should be reported to either GR.jl or https://github.com/sciapp/gr.

[nilshg]

I can't actually reproduce this anymore on a fresh install, if I run into it again I'll file it on the GR repo.