[GRASS-dev] Re: GRASS-user] Re: Problem grass-6.4.0 error setting region: child process exited abnormally

[Michael Barton]

Hi Elvis,

Guess you didn't want to try my suggestions for compiling.

Anyway, as Glynn indicates, the error you have is most likely related  
to GDAL being an incorrect version or not installed correctly.  
Otherwise, it is due to something else wrong with your region. As he  
suggests, g.region -p might give you some guidance.

The correct way to start either gui from the command line now is to  
use g.gui tcltk& or g.gui wxpython&

Note that you need to use the ampersand to prevent either gui from  
running modally (i.e., locking you out of the terminal command line  
until you quit the GUI). I guess you can still access the old TclTk  
startup script, which includes an ampersand to prevent modal launch of  
the GUI.

One guess as to why you are getting a TclTk GUI even when you compile  
without it. You probably compiled with it, which put all the TclTk  
scripts into your binary grass.app file. If you subsequently compile  
without it and do a "make install", it will put in new files and  
overwrite old files with new, but will not get rid of files not  
overwritten. That is, you probably still have the TclTk scripts in  
your grass.app folder. They are simply text files that are interpreted  
as they are run. So you aren't actually compiling them, but simply  
copying them from the source tree into your binary grass.app folder.  
So they are still there, even after you have compiled without them  
unless you delete your grass.app and have a new one built from scratch.

Michael

On Sep 29, 2008, at 5:14 PM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org 
 > wrote:

> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:44:49 +0400
> From: Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Re: Problem grass-6.4.0 error setting
> 	region: child	process exited abnormally
> To: William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at kyngchaos.com>
> Cc: GRASS User <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>,	grass developers
> 	<grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Message-ID: <C24AB342-68B3-41CC-B6CE-294E3A6EECC7 at mac.com>
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>
> Hi William,
>                       I just downloaded the latest version of
> grass-6.4.x from cvs and tried compiling it, first with X11 and the
> tcltk options, and the second time without tcltk. The funny thing is
> even though I disable tcltk from the configure command the second
> time, the tcltk application still kept showing.
>
> Here is the first configure command
>
> ./configure --with-cxx --prefix=/Applications/GRASS --enable-macosx-
> app --with-x --with-opengl=x11 --without-readline --x-includes=/usr/
> X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --with-opengl-includes=/usr/ 
> X11/
> include --with-opengl-libs=/usr/X11/lib
>
> Here is the second configure command without tcltk
>
> ./configure --with-cxx --prefix=/Applications/GRASS --enable-macosx-
> app --with-x --with-opengl=x11 --without-readline --x-includes=/usr/
> X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --with-opengl-includes=/usr/ 
> X11/
> include --with-opengl-libs=/usr/X11/lib --without-tcltk
>
> What could be causing it?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Elvis Dowson