[GRASS-dev] Re: Grass 6.1

[Moritz Lennert]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got a request where a client of IRST wants to use GRASS via
> FreeNX (Linux Terminal server) on Windows machines. When
> starting GRASS, a TclTk problem appears:
> 
> [citing his mail]
> 
> ...
>> Starting GRASS ...
>> Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown
>> color name  "Black"
>> Error in startup script: can't invoke "image" command:  application
>> has been des troyed
>>    while executing
>> "image create photo -data
>> "R0lGODlhIAAgALP/AP///8DAwP8A/7+/v39/f38AfwD//wB/AAAA/
>> wAAfwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAAgACAAAAT/kMhJq50h60yA/2Ao..."
>>    (in namespace eval "::help" script line 27)
>>    invoked from within
>> "namespace eval help {
>> variable w
>> variable abort 0
>> variable showing 0
>> variable stat ""
>> variable curfilename ""
>> variable data
>> variable history ""..."
>>    (file "/usr/local/grass-6.1.0/etc/help.tcl" line 61)
>>    invoked from within
>> "source $env(GISBASE)/etc/help.tcl"
>>    (file "/usr/local/grass-6.1.0/etc/gis_set.tcl" line 38)
>> /home/manganelll/<UNKNOWN>/<UNKNOWN>/.gislock: No such file or directory
>> ERROR: /usr/local/grass-6.1.0/etc/lock:
> 
> 
> Any hint would be welcome.


The problem is actually with wish:

$ wish
Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown 
color name "Black"

So any tk application seems to fail with freenx. Best bet would be to 
ask on the the freenx-knx mailing list:

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/freenx-knx

I would also be interested in the answer ;-)

Moritz




Moritz