[GRASS-dev] GRASS7.0 on Mavericks

[Michael Barton]

Oops. You're right. 

It does look like a problem I've also seen for Mac's that have been set to a non-English language. It also has to do with some hard coding and not quite right error traps in trying to determine how GRASS displays text. I tried to track this down a year ago and thought it had gone away. It is one of the reasons, I've included nls/gettext support in my binaries. 

The Mac is pretty cavalier about setting the multiple environmental variables available in Unix for the language. I can't remember now for sure whether it is GRASS trying to set a default for an unset environmental variable or it is already in the variable from the Mac, but it gets set to an incorrect value. At the worst, GRASS should just ignore it and go ahead with English. But the Python code throws an error and shuts down the GUI instead. 

I do NOT recommend installing a 3rd party Python. We've had lots of problems with this, and the association between wxPython and Python. Some of it may be improved because I (and William) now bundle wxPython with GRASS, but I would not do it unless there is a very good reason to do so.


Michael Barton



On Dec 15, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Yann,
> 
> I don't think this problem relates to toolboxes. The error message is completely different. I would first suggest to install new Python version 2.7.6 [1] because there have been some problems and Python had to release new version. If this does not help, unfortunately I have no other idea.
> 
> Anna
> 
> [1] http://www.python.org/getit/
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Yann Chemin <ychemin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh yes I remember some times back reading about it, apologies.
> 
> 
> 
> On 15 December 2013 02:19, Michael Barton <c.michael.barton at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the bug I've been reporting for months now. It was introduced with the new tool box feature. There is a work around I can send you when I'm back at a computer. But it really needs to be found and fixed. Anna and I have tried to track it down without success yet.
> 
> Michael Barton
> 
> Sent from my iPhone...
> (so please excuse any typos)
> 
> On Dec 14, 2013, at 5:51 AM, Yann Chemin <ychemin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I created a new user (also administrator) on a MacBook and started to follow Michael's steps to install version 7 Maverick
>> 
>> I get a strange error on install, the directory GRASS (inside is the application grass-7.0) is there but I do not have permission to open the directory in Finder (though I did install it). Going to the "main" user of the machine I could change the permissions, and also checked that GRASS7.0 runs well, all good there, no worries.
>> 
>> Going back to my user, I can go in the directory, and launch the application, ok. Then things go weird. It was working well in the "main" user but bugs in that new user... Both have admin level.
>> 
>> Python 2.7.5 found.
>> 
>> WELCOME TO GRASS 7.0.svn
>> 
>>    1) Have at your side all available GRASS GIS tutorials
>> 
>>    2) When working on your location, the following materials
>>       are extremely useful:
>>       - A topographic map of your area
>>       - Current catalog of available computer maps
>> 
>>    3) heck the GRASS GIS web pages for supporting mailing lists and more:
>>       http://grass.osgeo.org
>> 
>> Hit RETURN to continue
>> Starting GRASS GIS...
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 37, in <module>
>>     from core.utils import _
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/gui/wxpython/core/utils.py", line 36, in <module>
>>     from core.gcmd  import RunCommand
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/gui/wxpython/core/gcmd.py", line 744, in <module>
>>     _enc = GetDefaultEncoding() # define as global variable
>>   File "/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/gui/wxpython/core/gcmd.py", line 737, in GetDefaultEncoding
>>     enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
>>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 511, in getdefaultlocale
>>     return _parse_localename(localename)
>>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 443, in _parse_localename
>>     raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
>> ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
>> Error in GUI startup. If necessary, please report this error to the GRASS developers.
>> Switching to text mode now.
>>   
>> 
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