[GRASSLIST:10840] Re: Bus Error in g.remove

[Hamish]

Just a thought,

in the past weeks some code was changed to replace system calls with
their C equivalents. Maybe this has something to do with it. I can't
connect to the CVS-web interface currently to check.

Look for recent changes in:
  http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass6/general/manage/


Hamish



On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:04:54 -0600
Dave Kent <dkent at sasktel.net> wrote:

> 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.