ERROR: ReadOnlyMemoryError()

After a recent Pkg.update() I get the follwing error

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julia> using Plots

julia> pyplot()
Plots.PyPlotBackend()

julia> plot(rand(100))
Error showing value of type Plots.Plot{Plots.PyPlotBackend}:
ERROR: ReadOnlyMemoryError()
julia>
```
Typing control-d after that results in a segmentation fault.

Reproduce the report with Julia 0.6 by running `using Plots`, `pyplot()`, and `plot(rand(100))`. Investigate the resulting `ReadOnlyMemoryError` and the segmentation fault after Ctrl-D; done means the plotting command and exit path no longer produce these failures.

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