[GRASSLIST:10837] Re: Bus Error in g.remove

[Dave Kent]

Thanks for the insight.  I went back to the Nov 05 binaries and  
Janurary CVS version and things work.  That will be fine for now.  I  
guess learning how to build wouldn't  be a bad thing.

Thanks for your help.

Dave


On Mar 8, 2006, at 6:40 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> This is probably the same bug Michael Barton reported yesterday  
> (#4152) and I reported last August (#3585).  Specifically, when  
> GRASS is built on OS 10.3 Panther (GCC 3.3), and GDAL has Postgres  
> support.  It's probably happening for you in Tiger because Lorenzo  
> builds with Panther compatibility - either on Panther, or on Tiger  
> using the Panther SDK.  A Tiger-only build (GCC 4) is unaffected.
>
> It's a strange bug - I can build GRASS with GDAL without Postgres  
> support, then update GDAL to include Postgres support and it still  
> works.  It's only when GDAL has Postgres support *at the time GRASS  
> is built*.  I've tried various combinations of static and dynamic  
> Postgres libraries (and the exact same ones used for Postgres  
> support in GRASS) and other options in GDAL and GRASS and GRASS  
> with/without its own Postgres support.
>
>
> On Mar 8, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Dave Kent wrote:
>
>> I am using Grass 6.1CVS on Macintosh with the most recent  
>> Macintosh binaries.
>>
>> g.remove gives the following error.
>>
>>
>> child killed: bus error
>> child killed: bus error
>>     while executing
>> "exec -- $cmd --tcltk"
>>     (procedure "execute" line 4)
>>     invoked from within
>> "execute g.remove "
>>     (menu invoke)
>>
>>
>>
>> This started quite suddenly, possibly consistent with messing with  
>> AWK post I had yesterday.
>>
>> I get the same error with g.copy, g.rename but not g.list
>>
>> I have reinstalled the binaries and the application.
>>
>> There was a not too similar message in the archives which relates  
>> to the environmental variable file being corrupted.  I cannot find  
>> this file and haven't tried removing it.
>>
>> I am at a bit of a loss on what to do.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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