[GRASSLIST:10851] Re: Bus Error in g.remove

[William Kyngesburye]

Except that I reported this bug last August, and it happens with  
6.0.1 and 6.1CVS.  I haven't tried 6.0.2 yet.


On Mar 9, 2006, at 1:33 AM, Hamish wrote:

> 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.
>

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