[GRASS-user] grass 6.3 install problem... can't get past splash screen on centos

[Ken Kwasnicki]

thank you daniel!  i had forgotten to run ldconfig following the gdal 
installation.  that fixed it.
thanks,
ken

Daniel Victoria wrote:
> I had a similar problem some time ago and it turned out to be a badly
> installed gdal lib. I'd double check your gdal installation, including
> the shared libraries
>
> Daniel
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Ken Kwasnicki <ken.kwasnicki at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> hi all,
>> i've now had this problem on a couple centos 5.1 installations. i first
>> build and install from source: fftw, proj4, and gdal,  make sure i have all
>> the tcl/tk devel libraries, then install grass 6.3 from source which
>> compiles without errors but when i go to run it i can select a location
>> (spearfish->permanent), then the Output window comes up with the medieval
>> map splash screen which never goes away and none of the other windows
>> appear.   i have to do a kill -9 on the "wish" process to get rid of the
>> output window and splash screen.
>>
>> i've successfully installed grass63 on a couple other systems, one of which
>> was also centos 5.1, but i don't know what i've done differently this time.
>>   and there are no error messages being displayed.
>> appreciate any thoughts on why this is happening?
>> thanks,
>> ken
>>
>> [apologies if this message appears twice, my first send was from the wrong
>> address.]
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