[GRASS-dev] Location creation failure in docker with latest grass trunk version

[Markus Metz]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 4:24 PM Nikos Alexandris <nik at nikosalexandris.net>
wrote:
>
> Hi, this is maybe similar to ticket #3693 [0].
>
> @neteler In [0], the first example to create a Location, is performed as
> root. Curious, why so? Why not as a simple user?
>
> I just try to update my grassyan Dockerfile [0] and it fails at the
> point of creating a Location, for the sake of testing. I don't know if
> this is relevant with what is reported in ticket #3693:

In your case, it seems to be an incomplete GRASS installation, see below:
>
> [0] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3693
> [1] https://gitlab.com/NikosAlexandris/grassyan
>
> ```
> Step 47/52 : RUN grass -text -e     -c EPSG:4326
"$GRASSDB/$TEMPORARY_MAPSET" RUN  grass -text
"$GRASSDB/$TEMPORARY_MAPSET/PERMANENT"     --exec g.region -p
>  ---> Running in 4dab4125dec7
> Starting GRASS GIS...
> Creating new GRASS GIS location <temporary_Mapset>...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/grass", line 2242, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/local/bin/grass", line 2153, in main
>     geofile=params.geofile, create_new=True)
>   File "/usr/local/bin/grass", line 1046, in set_mapset
>     create_location(gisdbase, location_name, geofile)
>   File "/usr/local/bin/grass", line 837, in create_location
>     from grass.script import core as gcore  # pylint: disable=E0611
> ImportError: No module named grass.script

granted that "grass" is a link to "grass77", the GRASS python lib is
missing, should be here: 'dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/etc/python/grass/'

another missing 'dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/etc/' file:

> ```
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/etc/license'

maybe you need to check your GRASS installation for completeness

Markus M

> grassyan at 2ced1e57a44e:~$ grass74 --version
> GRASS GIS 7.4.2
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/grass74", line 2027, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/grass74", line 1839, in main
>     params = parse_cmdline(sys.argv[1:], default_gui=default_gui)
>   File "/usr/bin/grass74", line 1744, in parse_cmdline
>     message('\n' + readfile(gpath("etc", "license")))
>   File "/usr/bin/grass74", line 229, in readfile
>     f = open(path, 'r')
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/etc/license'
> ```
> and
> ```
> grass77 -c 'epsg:4326' /home/grassyan/grassdb/test
> Starting GRASS GIS...
> WARNING: GRASS GUI not found. Please check your installation.
> Switching to text based interface mode.
>
> Hit RETURN to continue.
>
>
> Creating new GRASS GIS location <test>...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/grass77", line 2242, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/local/bin/grass77", line 2153, in main
>     geofile=params.geofile, create_new=True)
>   File "/usr/local/bin/grass77", line 1046, in set_mapset
>     create_location(gisdbase, location_name, geofile)
>   File "/usr/local/bin/grass77", line 837, in create_location
>     from grass.script import core as gcore  # pylint: disable=E0611
> ImportError: No module named grass.script
> ```
>
> Nikos
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