[GRASS-dev] SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Paulo van Breugel
<p.vanbreugel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I switched from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04 and have just compiled GRASS
> 7.3dev from source (r69054). It all seems to work fine, but at start up I
> get the message:
>
> Debug: Failed to connect to session manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment
> variable not defined

The related wxwidgets ticket is
http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16024

but received a wontfix.

> GRASS was build with Python 2.7.12 and wxPython 3.0.2.0. In an earlier email
> about the same debug message, it was suggested to set
>
> export SESSION_MANAGER=1

For the record:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/thread.html#72984

> Doing so before starting GRASS gives the same as reported by Andy:
>
> _IceTransOpen: Unable to Parse address 1
> 04:57:44 PM: Debug: Failed to connect to session manager: Could not open
> network socket
>
> Up to now I don't see any further effects, so I am wondering if I could /
> should do any further testing?

But does it start then or not?

Markus