[GRASS-dev] Re: Your post on Grass list: i.group failed in new Georectifier

Michael Barton michael.barton at asu.edu
Fri Oct 6 16:24:54 EDT 2006 

If you're using 6.3 there is a problem. The error code below indicates that
it is missing the Windows patches. I'll look into it and see if I can figure
it out.

What is your platform?

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
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www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton


> From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca>
> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:44:51 -0300
> To: 'Michael Barton ' <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: 'GRASS devel ' <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: RE: Your post on Grass list: i.group failed in new Georectifier
> 
> Thanks for looking into this. I'm actually using 6.3, updated the cvs today.
> 
> ~ Eric. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Barton
> To: Patton, Eric
> Cc: GRASS devel
> Sent: 10/6/2006 2:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Your post on Grass list: i.group failed in new Georectifier
> 
> Eric,
> 
> I'm completely baffled. It must be some other kinds of changes in GRASS
> affecting this. Is the only one that doesn't work? You can grep
> run_panel
> *.tcl in the /etc/gm folder and see what else uses it. You can make a
> change
> with a text editor with no need to recompile.
> 
> I have to make a confession that the version I'm working with is a
> couple
> weeks old, but has all current tcltk files. I'm concerned that some
> other
> change in the tcltk parser is creating problems with running some
> things.
> i.group should not be problematic since it doesn't require an xterm to
> run.
> 
> The "run" procedure is used widely. I can think of no reason why "exec
> --
> i.group >& /dev/null" should not work. I notice that you do not have the
> new
> devnull variable that makes this workable in Windows, so you must be
> running
> 6.1 or 6.2. I don't know whether that makes a difference or not.
> 
> Given all this, I'm forwarding this to the general developer list to see
> what's going on.
> 
> Michael
> __________________________________________
> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
> Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
> Arizona State University
> 
> phone: 480-965-6213
> fax: 480-965-7671
> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
> 
> 
>> From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca>
>> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:42:51 -0300
>> To: 'Michael Barton ' <michael.barton at asu.edu>
>> Subject: RE: Your post on Grass list: i.group failed in new
> Georectifier
>> 
>> Still no luck. I made your edit (substituting run for run_panel),
>> re-complied, and I get a tcl error:
>> 
>>  child process exited abnormally
>> child process exited abnormally
>>     while executing
>> "exec -- i.group >& /dev/null"
>>     ("eval" body line 1)
>>     invoked from within
>> "eval [list exec -- $cmd] $args >& $devnull"
>>     (procedure "run" line 12)
>>     invoked from within
>> "run $cmd"
>>     (procedure "GRMap::group" line 11)
>>     invoked from within
>> "GRMap::group"
>>     ("uplevel" body line 1)
>>     invoked from within
>> "uplevel \#0 $cmd"
>>     (procedure "Button::_release" line 18)
>>     invoked from within
>> "Button::_release .grstart.mf.frame.group.a"
>>     (command bound to event)
>> 
>> The vector group chooser works fine, but then I see that it doesn't
> call
>> i.group either. Actually, I noticed that the i.group call is the only
> time
>> in the whole tcl script that 'run_panel' is used. I thought I could
> test to
>> see if run_panel ran successfully in other instances in georect.tcl.
>> 
>> ~ Eric.
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Barton
>> To: Patton, Eric
>> Sent: 10/6/2006 12:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: Your post on Grass list: i.group failed in new
> Georectifier
>> 
>> Try substituting "run" for "run_panel" in the line that calls i.group
>> and
>> see what happens. I have no way to test because it works fine for me.
>> 
>> Michael
>> __________________________________________
>> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
>> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
>> Arizona State University
>> 
>> phone: 480-965-6213
>> fax: 480-965-7671
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>> 
>> 
>>> From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca>
>>> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:31:31 -0300
>>> To: 'Michael Barton ' <michael.barton at asu.edu>
>>> Subject: RE: Your post on Grass list: i.group failed in new
>> Georectifier
>>> 
>>> Hm, i.group works fine from both the GUI and comand line; i.group -l
>> shows
>>> my newly created imagery groups.
>>> 
>>> It's almost like the georectifying tool is passing i.group a null
>> string for
>>> the name of the group parameter as soon as button #2 is clicked,
>> causing
>>> i.group to fail. I take it that clicking button #2 'Create edit
> group'
>> is
>>> supposed to launch the GUI version of i.group? It's strange. I can
> try
>> to
>>> take a look at georect.tcl and see if anything obvious sticks out,
>> although
>>> I kow barely any tcl.
>>> 
>>> I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 on a Dell PC.
>>> 
>>> ~ Eric. 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Michael Barton
>>> To: Patton, Eric
>>> Sent: 10/6/2006 11:06 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Your post on Grass list: i.group failed in new
>> Georectifier
>>> 
>>> Have you tried running i.group from the command line and from the
>> menu?
>>> What
>>> happens in both.
>>> 
>>> I'm running i.group in exactly the same way as other commands are
> run.
>> I
>>> can
>>> change the procedure, but wonder if this is causing problems with
>> other
>>> commands too on your system.
>>> 
>>> BTW, what system are you doing this on?
>>> 
>>> Michael
>>> __________________________________________
>>> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
>>> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>>> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>>> Arizona State University
>>> 
>>> phone: 480-965-6213
>>> fax: 480-965-7671
>>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca>
>>>> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:59:58 -0300
>>>> To: 'Michael Barton ' <michael.barton at asu.edu>
>>>> Subject: RE: Your post on Grass list: i.group failed in new
>>> Georectifier
>>>> 
>>>> Michael,
>>>> 
>>>> I tried it again after updating to CVS - same thing:
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> ERROR: Required parameter <group> not set:
>>>>     (Name of imagery group).
>>>> 
>>>> ~ Eric.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Michael Barton
>>>> To: Patton, Eric
>>>> Sent: 10/5/2006 5:37 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Your post on Grass list: i.group failed in new
>>> Georectifier
>>>> 
>>>> Probably not. I bet mine went in about 15 minutes later.
>>>> 
>>>> Michael
>>>> __________________________________________
>>>> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
>>>> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>>>> Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
>>>> Arizona State University
>>>> 
>>>> phone: 480-965-6213
>>>> fax: 480-965-7671
>>>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>

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