/Users/pro/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:273: UserWarning: Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. This may take a moment. warnings.warn('Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. This may take a moment.')
As tom suggested in the comment above, deleting the files: fontList.cache, fontList.py3k.cache and tex.cache solve the problem. In my case the files were under ~/.matplotlib.