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Description:
Python 2.6 has gone a while ago, but matplotlib looks for fonts in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/ when saving plots as pdf.
See attached testcase.py. If I run this as "./testcase.py > test.pdf" it says:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./testcase.py", line 10, in <module>
plt.savefig(sys.stdout, format='pdf')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 363, in savefig
return fig.savefig(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1084, in savefig
self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 1886, in print_figure
**kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 1696, in print_pdf
return pdf.print_pdf(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 2156, in print_pdf
self.figure.draw(renderer)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in draw_wrapper
draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 798, in draw
func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in draw_wrapper
draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 1934, in draw
a.draw(renderer)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in draw_wrapper
draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 1017, in draw
tick.draw(renderer)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in draw_wrapper
draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 234, in draw
self.label1.draw(renderer)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 55, in draw_wrapper
draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py", line 524, in draw
bbox, info = self._get_layout(renderer)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py", line 298, in _get_layout
ismath=False)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 1781, in get_text_width_height_descent
font = self._get_font_ttf(prop)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py", line 1817, in _get_font_ttf
font = FT2Font(str(filename))
RuntimeError: Could not open facefile /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/Vera.ttf; Cannot_Open_Resource

Commenting in the matplotlib.rc line to use the real LaTeX, it runs fine.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

python-dateutil 1.5-2
python-matplotlib 1.0.0-4
python-numpy 1.5.0-2
python-pytz 2010h-2
python-scipy 0.8.0-4
python2 2.7-3


* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
See above. Run "./testcase.py > test.pdf"