[GRASS-dev] trying to test error trapping for invalid gisdbase, location, and mapset

Michael Barton michael.barton at asu.edu
Tue May 29 19:39:45 EDT 2007


William,

Here is the latest twist.

The error checking works fine on my build and on your binary, on my PPC G5.

It also works fine on your universal binary when run on my Intel PowerBook.

However, the Intel-only (not universal) app build that I've done on my
PowerBook, it does not work.

Michael


On 5/29/07 12:30 PM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> On May 29, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> Always as far as I remember. Change the name of your location or
>> move it,
>> for example, and you get an error at startup. The only way to fix
>> it is to
>> edit your .grassrc6
>> 
> Likewise here the other way - that is, as long as I can remember it's
> always given the error, then gone into the mapset selection anyways.
> 
> Though there is another problem I DO have - if the location or mapset
> is invalid, I can't create a new location by values in the GUI -
> clicking Define new location with projection values button in the GUI
> gives me (the good db name is 'grassdb'):
> 
> access: No such file or directory
> ERROR: LOCATION << /Users/kyngchaos/Documents/gis/grassdbz/
> spearfish60 >>
>         not available
>      while executing
> 
> [previous error message repeated a few times]
> 
> "exec -- $env(GISBASE)/etc/grass-xterm-wrapper -name xterm-grass -e
> $env(GISBASE)/etc/grass-run.sh $env(GISBASE)/etc/set_data"
>      invoked from within
> ".frame0.frameNMS.seventh.button invoke"
>      ("uplevel" body line 1)
>      invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]"
>      (procedure "tk::ButtonUp" line 22)
>      invoked from within
> "tk::ButtonUp .frame0.frameNMS.seventh.button"
>      (command bound to event)
> 
> 
> It doesn't even try to run grass-xterm-wrapper.  Even if I correct
> the DB location in the GUI, I get this error.  So it could be related
> to the problem you're having.  It works normally in the text startup.
> 
>> Maybe, but I've got the same result on different Mac's (PPC and
>> Intel). My
>> Intel at least has never had an old version of the OS on it. I always
>> assumed that this was normal, and have been planning to add an
>> error trap
>> into gis_set.tcl for a long time, but hadn't gotten around to it.
>> 
> How about my binary?  I recently added a 5/20 CVS build for download
> on my site.
> 
>> Note that we just had a report on the GRASS list of someone who had a
>> similar error on the Mac. Kind of strange.
>> 
> Yeah, saw it, figured that's why you started on the error trapping.
> It sounded like they were using the old unix build, not a .app
> build.  The only difference is pre-init.sh - where the .app sets some
> GRASS env var defaults appropriate for the .app.
> 
> -----
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> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
> 
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> 

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

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