[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6 REALLY IS broken on Mac

[Michael Barton]

More tests.

If I delete .grassrc6 and start GRASS, it opens fine after asking for a GISDBASE location. But if I try to start it again, it errors out with the error below.

I suspect there is something wrong with a configuration file path. It has been changed and the new file is not being created

Michael

On Jul 25, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> Something installed another Python version without my knowledge. Getting rid of this solved the problem.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Jul 25, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> I'm recompiling GRASS binaries and found that GRASS 6 is broken on the Mac. This is true for the current svn version I just updated and for the version I compiled 28 June--both release branch and dev branch. I updated all frameworks today, but I don't know if I tested the 28 June version of GRASS 6 after I compiled it. So I don't know if it is in the updated frameworks (updated on 29 June) or in the GRASS code. GRASS 7 works fine. When I try to launch GRASS 6, I get the following error after selecting a mapset and clicking 'start grass'. 
>> 
>> GRASS 6.4.3svn (Spearfish60_test):~ > Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 139, in <module>
>>     sys.exit(main())
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 132, in main
>>     app = GMApp(workspaceFile)
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 45, in __init__
>>     wx.App.__init__(self, False)
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py", line 7981, in __init__
>>     self._BootstrapApp()
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py", line 7555, in _BootstrapApp
>>     return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 78, in OnInit
>>     workspace = self.workspaceFile)
>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass64_rb/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/etc/wxpython/lmgr/frame.py", line 108, in __init__
>>     self.notebook  = self._createNoteBook()
>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass64_rb/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/etc/wxpython/lmgr/frame.py", line 257, in _createNoteBook
>>     self.goutput = GMConsole(self)
>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass64_rb/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/etc/wxpython/gui_core/goutput.py", line 240, in __init__
>>     self.MakeSearchPaneContent(self.searchPane.GetPane())
>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass64_rb/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/etc/wxpython/gui_core/goutput.py", line 356, in MakeSearchPaneContent
>>     self.search = SearchModuleWindow(parent = pane, cmdPrompt = self.cmdPrompt)
>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass64_rb/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/etc/wxpython/gui_core/ghelp.py", line 81, in __init__
>>     self.searchChoice.SetItems(self.cmdPrompt.GetCommandItems())
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py", line 11997, in SetItems
>>     self.AppendItems(items)
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py", line 11859, in AppendItems
>>     return _core_.ItemContainer_AppendItems(*args, **kwargs)
>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 100: ordinal not in range(128)
>> 
>> 
>> I have not changed my python or wxpython installation since the last time I had a working GRASS 6 (earlier in June).
>> 
>> Michael
>> _____________________
>> C. Michael Barton
>> Visiting Scientist, Integrated Science Program
>> National Center for Atmospheric Research &
>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>> 303-497-2889 (voice)
>> 
>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Arizona State University
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu
>> 
> 
> _____________________
> C. Michael Barton
> Visiting Scientist, Integrated Science Program
> National Center for Atmospheric Research &
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> 303-497-2889 (voice)
> 
> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
> Arizona State University
> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu
> 

_____________________
C. Michael Barton
Visiting Scientist, Integrated Science Program
National Center for Atmospheric Research &
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
303-497-2889 (voice)

Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu

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