[GRASS-user] most recent kyngesburye build for osx tiger error

[Michael Barton]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 4:33 PM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:46:05 -0700
> From: Brandon M. Gabler <bgabler at email.arizona.edu>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] most recent kyngesburye build for osx tiger
> 	error
> To: GRASS-User GRASS-User <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at kyngchaos.com>
> Message-ID: <D967054D-3A05-4C06-8EC8-0BCBC44E627A at email.arizona.edu>
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> Greetings all,
> I recently installed Grass 6.3.0-3-Tig on my mac running Tiger, after
> updating all necessary frameworks listed by William Kyngesburye.
> Grass seems to start normally (though with lots of text at startup in
> the terminal window, included at the end of this email), and it opens
> the standard startup screen. I click Enter Grass, it spins a bit,
> then this error in an X11 window: "Error setting region (Problem with
> g.region?): child killed: trace trap", folled by this text in the
> terminal window after I click the 'ok' button on the error window:
> GRASS 6.3.0 (Brandon):~ > Error in startup script: can't read "parts
> (w)": no such variable
>     while executing
> "set $parts(w) [expr round($parts(w)/$parts(ewres))*$parts(ewres)]"
>     (procedure "MapCanvas::zoom_gregion" line 16)
>     invoked from within
...

One of my students just tried 6.4SVN and libraries today.

Let the GUI crash. Then from the command line, check g.region by typing

g.region -gp

Probably you have a gdal problem. It will say so in the error message,  
if this is the case.

Here are a couple things in general.

1) If you are using 6.4 (I know, you said 6.3.0 for Tiger but stay  
with me), don't forget that you need to install TclTk separately now.  
Get it from Active States. William provides a link on his frameworks  
page. It's painless.

2) We just found a problem with a gdal framework (this might be your  
problem). The last version 1.5 at least is compiled with a PostgreSQL  
dependency. It needs to be recompiled without Postgres. I'm not sure  
about 1.6 but wouldn't be surprised if it is accidently the same.

Michael