[GRASSLIST:10863] Re: Bus Error in g.remove

[Michael Barton]

This turned out to be a problem in compiling the Mac OSX binary. It has
something to do with GDAL.

Michael


On 3/9/06 8:14 AM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> Except that I reported this bug last August, and it happens with
> 6.0.1 and 6.1CVS.  I haven't tried 6.0.2 yet.
> 
> 
> On Mar 9, 2006, at 1:33 AM, Hamish wrote:
> 
>> Just a thought,
>> 
>> in the past weeks some code was changed to replace system calls with
>> their C equivalents. Maybe this has something to do with it. I can't
>> connect to the CVS-web interface currently to check.
>> 
>> Look for recent changes in:
>>   http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass6/general/manage/
>> 
>> 
>> Hamish
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:04:54 -0600
>> Dave Kent <dkent at sasktel.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for the insight.  I went back to the Nov 05 binaries and
>>> Janurary CVS version and things work.  That will be fine for now.  I
>>> guess learning how to build wouldn't  be a bad thing.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> On Mar 8, 2006, at 6:40 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>> 
>>>> This is probably the same bug Michael Barton reported yesterday
>>>> (#4152) and I reported last August (#3585).  Specifically, when
>>>> GRASS is built on OS 10.3 Panther (GCC 3.3), and GDAL has Postgres
>>>> support.  It's probably happening for you in Tiger because Lorenzo
>>>> builds with Panther compatibility - either on Panther, or on Tiger
>>>> using the Panther SDK.  A Tiger-only build (GCC 4) is unaffected.
>>>> 
>>>> It's a strange bug - I can build GRASS with GDAL without Postgres
>>>> support, then update GDAL to include Postgres support and it still
>>>> works.  It's only when GDAL has Postgres support *at the time GRASS
>>>> 
>>>> is built*.  I've tried various combinations of static and dynamic
>>>> Postgres libraries (and the exact same ones used for Postgres
>>>> support in GRASS) and other options in GDAL and GRASS and GRASS
>>>> with/without its own Postgres support.
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 8, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Dave Kent wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I am using Grass 6.1CVS on Macintosh with the most recent
>>>>> Macintosh binaries.
>>>>> 
>>>>> g.remove gives the following error.
>>>>> 
>>>>> child killed: bus error
>>>>> child killed: bus error
>>>>>     while executing
>>>>> "exec -- $cmd --tcltk"
>>>>>     (procedure "execute" line 4)
>>>>>     invoked from within
>>>>> "execute g.remove "
>>>>>     (menu invoke)
>>>>> 
>>>>> This started quite suddenly, possibly consistent with messing with
>>>> 
>>>>> AWK post I had yesterday.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I get the same error with g.copy, g.rename but not g.list
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have reinstalled the binaries and the application.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There was a not too similar message in the archives which relates
>>>>> to the environmental variable file being corrupted.  I cannot find
>>>>> this file and haven't tried removing it.
>> 
> 
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