[GRASS-user] v.in.dxf crashes

Kurt Springs ferret_bard at mac.com
Wed Nov 26 10:14:29 EST 2008


On GRASS 6.3 I use X11 on Mac OS X 10.5.5 (aka Leopard).  I agree that  
the problem is with Active tcl 8.5.  Having used the two, I have found  
X11 to be much more stable.  How easy would it be to compile a 6.4 to  
use X11?

Kurt
On Nov 26, 2008, at 3:04 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Kurt Springs <ferret_bard at mac.com>  
> wrote:
>> It seemed to run fine in the command line.  Running it through Wish  
>> causes
>> it to crash.
>
> I have tried v.in.dxf from current GRASS 6.4 on Linux and it worked  
> for me.
> So it might be related to Active tcl 8.5.
>
>>>> I tried a simple layer and it still crashed.  I got the message
>>>> "The application  Wish quit unexpectedly."
>>>> I didn't have this problem with 6.3.
>
> I don't think that the wish related part in GRASS 6.3 was different.
> More likely, did you use a different Tcl version?
>
>>>> In Console Messages I get:
>>>>
>>>> 11/25/08 1:10:45 PM Terminal[8482] .sdef error: Operation
>>>> could not be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 1549.)
>>>> 11/25/08 1:10:45 PM Terminal[8482] line number: 2
>>>>
>>>> Hope this means something to someone.
>
> Searching in the net shows a couple of similar messages, apparently
> related to Active tcl 8.5 (and not GRASS).
>
> Markus



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