[GRASS-dev] GRASS 8.0 and 8.1 from standalone installers still do not start for unprivileged users on windows 10

Doug Newcomb gistinker at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 10:49:41 PST 2022


Grass 8.0 RC2 windows standalone installer has the same issue.

Doug



On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 12:52 AM Doug Newcomb <gistinker at gmail.com> wrote:

> First ,
> I must apologize for my intermittent communication, I am not able to check
> email regularly this week.
> I downloaded the most recent standalone installers tonight and the bug in
> 7.8.6 https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/1965 is still there in the WinGRASS-8.1.dev-7e9610cfd-28-Setup.exe
> and WinGRASS-8.0.dev-ffb060a9c-36-Setup.exe binaries.
>
>
> I see https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/2068 has been merged into 8.0 release, but for some reason,
>
> this does not seem to be fixing these standalone builds. Since this is not an issue with the core grass code,
>
> but with the mswindows/GRASS-Installer.nsi.tmpl file, is there the possibility that the .nsi.tmpl file is not
>
> being refreshed during the build process?
>
> This all boils down to permissions on the etc/grass80.py file only set to read/execute for System and Administrative groups,
>
> not for local users.  All of the other python files in the etc directory of the windows installation have the correct read/execute permissions ,
>
> as set in line 594 of the mswindows/GRASS-Installer.nsi.tmpl , which was not changed in pull request 2068.
>
> Pull request 2068 simply changed line 762 to match line 594 to give the same permissions that all of the other python files in
>
> the etc directory. This worked on the version compiled on my development computer from source.  Unfortunately,
>
> I will not be able to compile the current source code until I get back to my development computer late this week.
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