[GRASS-user] Re: [SOLVED] digitising area crashes GRASS in wx GUI

[Shane Litherland]

Hi Markus and mailing list,

I have just tried using the 'digitise area' tool (wxpython GUI) in GRASS
6.4 svn 50505 (28 Jan 2012), and it works fine, both in the north
carolina dataset or my own (both instances making a 'test' vector to
digitise in).

So whatever the reason I had the problem earlier, is now resolved. I do
not think I have done anything different in configuring/installing the
svn version than what I did for the RC 1/2 versions (i'd used the
same ./configure parameters from a saved text file, and no dependencies
were added since i did RC1) so there may have just been a slight bit of
grit in the digitising gears that has since been cleaned ;-}, 

(In the interim since having the problem and now not having it, I don't
recall seeing any OS updates of my box (ubuntu 10.04) that affected
files I would have thought relevant e.g. wx, python.)

Regards,
Shane.


On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 12:27 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Shane Litherland
> <litherland-farm at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > Hi Markus,
> >
> > I guess, yes, it was self compiled...?
> >
> > i.e. downloaded compressed file from GRASS website, unzipped and
> > installed via terminal commands, along with suitable other packages as
> > per info in the readme's or on GRASS or Ubuntu websites.
> 
> This is not fulyl clear to me - which package did you take?
> Did you use the gcc compiler etc?
> 
> 
> ...
> > If you want more detailed steps of my setup, I'd kept some notes
> > somewhere in a text file about how i did it, can paste/email if wanted
> > (about a page of notes?)
> 
> Just which file you took and the next 2 steps are enough.
> 
> > I'll move towards using the svn release, but the reason I haven't done
> > so previously is that I didn't want to be working with something 'live'
> > in effect.
> 
> The releasebranch_6_4 is not much "live" but just receiving bugfixes.
> So it is not a moving target.
> 
> > I usually find out problems with GRASS when working on my own
> > data, not just testing GRASS on sample data, so thought sticking to
> > stable releases or RC's would reduce likelihood of me having corrupted
> > data with crashes etc.
> 
> The releasebranch_6_4 is "just" the last RC + subsequent bugfixes.
> Aiming at stability...
> 
> Markus