[GRASS-dev] GRASS 7 crashes on startup on Mac

Helena Mitasova hmitaso at ncsu.edu
Wed Jun 5 07:51:44 PDT 2013


I haven't been following this very well but grass7 crashes for me with the following error:

ERROR: wxGUI requires wxPython >= 2.8.10.1. Your wxPython version is 2.8.8.1.

so I guess I need to get wxPython2.9?

Helena

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On Jun 4, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> Anna,
> 
> Still crashes.
> 
> See below.
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> On May 20, 2013, at 12:06 AM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>> Perhaps I discovered the problem. Both the distribution version (downloaded in the past hour) and (of course) the compiled version of menudata.xml are empty.
>> 
>> Yes, that's what I was thinking. Could you try to run this separately:
>> 
>> python core/toolboxes.py > xml/menudata.xml 
> 
> I assumed that you want me to run this from the GRASS terminal prompt???
> 
> python core/toolboxes.py > xml/menudata.xml
> bash: xml/menudata.xml: No such file or directory
> 
> Michael
> 
>> 
>> which should be done during compilation but it seems to fail somehow. It should generate the xml menu file.
>> 
>> any update? I know you announced to be out of office but maybe you can try it anyway?
>> 
>> Anna
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Michael
>> ____________________
>> C. Michael Barton
>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Arizona State University
>> 
>> voice:  480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
>> fax:          480-965-7671 (SHESC),  480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On May 13, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> There might be a problem with compilation. Is there any error? Could you check file menudata.xml in gui/wxpython/xml/ and the same file in distribution? Is it there and what's inside?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>>> Anna,
>>> 
>>> I deleted all the GUI code and did a new svn up and make distclean.
>>> 
>>> Just finished compiling and have the same error on startup. The GUI crashes.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Michael
>>> ______________________________
>>> C. Michael Barton 
>>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>>> Arizona State University
>>> Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
>>> USA
>>> 
>>> voice: 
>>> 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
>>> fax:          480-965-7671(SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>>> www: 
>>> http://csdc.asu.edu, http://shesc.asu.edu
>>> http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>>> 
>>> On May 13, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>>>> I just compiled GRASS 7 Trunk.
>>>> 
>>>> It crashes on startup with the following error:
>>>> 
>>>> this is related to the new toolboxes and menu customization. I don't know what is wrong because it was tested successfully also on Windows. Could you check what you have in directory toolboxes which should be in the same folder as saved settings file? Also try make distclean or just make clean in gui/wxpython and remove manually the gui files from distribution.
>>>> 
>>>> Anna
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> GRASS 7.0.svn (nc_spm_08):~ > Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass7_dev/macosx/dist/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/gui/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 140, in <module>
>>>>     sys.exit(main())
>>>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass7_dev/macosx/dist/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/gui/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 133, in main
>>>>     app = GMApp(workspaceFile)
>>>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass7_dev/macosx/dist/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/gui/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 45, in __init__
>>>>     wx.App.__init__(self, False)
>>>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass7_dev/macosx/dist/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py", line 7981, in __init__
>>>>     self._BootstrapApp()
>>>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass7_dev/macosx/dist/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py", line 7555, in _BootstrapApp
>>>>     return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
>>>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass7_dev/macosx/dist/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/gui/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 79, in OnInit
>>>>     workspace = self.workspaceFile)
>>>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass7_dev/macosx/dist/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/gui/wxpython/lmgr/frame.py", line 106, in __init__
>>>>     self._menuTreeBuilder = LayerManagerMenuData()
>>>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass7_dev/macosx/dist/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/gui/wxpython/lmgr/menudata.py", line 31, in __init__
>>>>     MenuTreeModelBuilder.__init__(self, filename)
>>>>   File "/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass7_dev/macosx/dist/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/gui/wxpython/core/menutree.py", line 61, in __init__
>>>>     xmlTree = etree.parse(filename)
>>>>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 862, in parse
>>>>     tree.parse(source, parser)
>>>>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 587, in parse
>>>>     self._root = parser.close()
>>>>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1254, in close
>>>>     self._parser.Parse("", 1) # end of data
>>>> xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0
>>>> 
>>>> No changes on my end since compiling it without a problem a week ago.
>>>> 
>>>> Michael
>>>> ______________________________
>>>> C. Michael Barton 
>>>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>>>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>>>> Arizona State University
>>>> Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
>>>> USA
>>>> 
>>>> voice: 
>>>> 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
>>>> fax:          480-965-7671(SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>>>> www: 
>>>> http://csdc.asu.edu, http://shesc.asu.edu
>>>> http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>>>> 
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