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

[knussear]

I just checked out 6.5 from CVS and built it and I get exactly the same
error....



knussear wrote:
> 
> 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
>>> Message-ID: <D308C505-5338-44A9-BA85-72DBD884F7FE at mac.com>
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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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