[GRASS-dev] Re: grass-dev Digest, Vol 35, Issue 36

[Michael Barton]

On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:00 AM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:56:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: knussear <knussear at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] database driver errors from wish tcltk gui on
> 	mac
> To: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
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> 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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>>>> delsp=yes
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>
>>
>>
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Michael