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Dear Daniel,<br>
<br>
I have a one-month-old (apologize) wingrass 6.4.svn installed from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://josef.fsv.cvut.cz/wingrass/">http://josef.fsv.cvut.cz/wingrass/</a> on windows7.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:11:39 -0300
From: Daniel Victoria <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:daniel.victoria@gmail.com"><daniel.victoria@gmail.com></a>
[...] Opening a separate MSys console
and executing /grass/bin/grass64svn will start the Select location
window and after I click on Start, Grass crashes with the following
error:
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$ grass64svn
Cleaning up temporary files ...
Starting GRASS ...
ATENÇÃO: Attention!
ATENÇÃO: Locking is not supported on Windows!
__________ ___ __________ _______________
/ ____/ __ \/ | / ___/ ___/ / ____/ _/ ___/
/ / __/ /_/ / /| | \__ \\_ \ / / __ / / \__ \
/ /_/ / _, _/ ___ |___/ /__/ / / /_/ // / ___/ /
\____/_/ |_/_/ |_/____/____/ \____/___//____/
Welcome to GRASS 6.4.0svn (2010)
GRASS homepage: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://grass.osgeo.org/">http://grass.osgeo.org/</a>
This version running thru: GNU Bash (Cygwin) (/usr/bin/bash.exe)
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sounds like you are running through Cygwin ("GNU Bash (Cygwin)
(/usr/bin/bash.exe)") -- on my machine the MSys desktop link triggers a
welcome screen that at the same line says "Bourne Shell (/bin/sh)" (and
everything works as expected including the wxpython GUI):<br>
<br>
<blockquote><tt>Cleaning up temporary files ...</tt><br>
<tt>Starting GRASS ...</tt><br>
<tt>ATTENZIONE: Attention!</tt><br>
<tt>ATTENZIONE: Locking is not supported on Windows!</tt><br>
<tt> __________ ___ __________ _______________</tt><br>
<tt> / ____/ __ \/ | / ___/ ___/ / ____/ _/ ___/</tt><br>
<tt> / / __/ /_/ / /| | \__ \\_ \ / / __ / / \__ \ </tt><br>
<tt> / /_/ / _, _/ ___ |___/ /__/ / / /_/ // / ___/ / </tt><br>
<tt> \____/_/ |_/_/ |_/____/____/ \____/___//____/ </tt><br>
<br>
<tt>Welcome to GRASS 6.4.0svn (2010) </tt><br>
<tt>GRASS homepage: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://grass.osgeo.org/">http://grass.osgeo.org/</a></tt><br>
<tt>This version running thru: Bourne Shell (/bin/sh)</tt><br>
<tt>Help is available with the command: g.manual -i</tt><br>
<tt>See the licence terms with: g.version -c</tt><br>
<tt>If required, restart the GUI with: g.gui wxpython</tt><br>
<tt>When ready to quit enter: exit</tt><br>
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<tt><br>
GRASS 6.4> </tt><br>
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Do you by any chance have Cygwin bash.exe on your %PATH% environmental
variable?<br>
<br>
As for the Python errors you mention, I am not sure but it may again be
a problem related to %PATH% settings. It is indeed possible to have
heritage Cygwin/GRASS and the new native Wingrass running on the same
machine, but care must be taken to avoid messing with the global %PATH%.<br>
<br>
As for running R from GRASS, an approach I have found useful is to
follow the advice by Glynn Clements, i.e. not running GRASS from MSys
but instead use a simple DOS box started via a batch file that sets
required environmental variables to run GRASS, and then call the shell
executable sh.exe (shell scripts designed for Cygwin/GRASS run with
minimal adjustments -- mostly to cope with MSys path conventions
issues). Glynn has taken on this topic in a growing (thanks for your
patience, Glynn!) number of posts -- see for example:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/grass-start-bat-in-windows-tp4492202p4492202.html">http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/grass-start-bat-in-windows-tp4492202p4492202.html</a><br>
<br>
Finally, when I have my GRASS-enabled DOS box, I just type R (of course
R needs to be in the %PATH%) and I am pretty much done.<br>
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I hope this helps and sorry if I misunderstood your questions,<br>
<br>
Luigi<br>
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