[GRASS-dev] database driver errors from wish tcltk gui on mac

[knussear]

Good news. Any chance this could be fixed for 6.4? Seems late in a version
release cycle to have a large bug like this slip by.


Michael Barton wrote:
> 
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 9:19 PM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
>> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:12:07 -0700
>> From: Ken Nussear <knussear at mac.com>
>> Subject: [GRASS-dev] database driver errors from wish tcltk gui on mac
>> To: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
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>> Hi
>>
>> I'm on Mac OSX 10.5.6 using Grass 6.4 RC3. I'm using the WISH TclTk
>> GUI using ActiveTcl 8.5 from ActiveState.
>>
>> I'm having driver errors when accessing vector attribute information
>> via the GUI, but not from the command line
>>
>> For example- using spearfish
>> Adding a vector to the map
>> Selected buglist from the list of vectors
>> Clicked the "Show Attribute Table" button in the lower panel of the
>> GRASS GIS Manager window
>>
>> Got this error in the output
>>
>> db.select table=bugsites database=/Users/knussear/Documents/Research/
>> GIS/grassdata/spearfish60/PERMANENT/dbf/ driver=dbf
>>
>> Bad file descriptor: dup r
>> dbmi: Protocol error
>> Unable to start driver <dbf>
>>
>>
>> I copied the same line and pasted it in the terminal
>>
>> db.select table=bugsites database=/Users/knussear/Documents/Research/
>> GIS/grassdata/spearfish60/PERMANENT/dbf/ driver=dbf
>> cat|str1
>> 1|Beetle site
>> 2|Beetle site
>> 3|Beetle site
>> 4|Beetle site
>> 5|Beetle site
>> 6|Beetle site
>> 7|Beetle site
>> 8|Beetle site
>> 9|Beetle site
>> 10|Beetle site
>> 11|Beetle site
>> 12|Beetle site
>> 13|Beetle site
>> 14|Beetle site
>> ..... and more rows
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> 
> Ken,
> 
> I just tried this with GRASS 6.5 svn, which has an identical TclTk GUI  
> as the release branch currently. I added bugsites to the layer manager  
> and clicked show attribute data and it shows the same information as  
> you get in the terminal.
> 
> Perhaps, there is some problem with db.select that has been fixed  
> after 6.4rc3.
> 
> Michael
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