[GRASS-user] Problem after Installing OS X 10.7

Kurt Springs ferret_bard at mac.com
Mon Sep 12 09:53:31 EDT 2011


That worked great William, thanks.  I was pleasantly surprised by the the Python GUI that is used under Lion, though I may have to learn my way around it.

Thanks again all.

Kurt
On Sep 12, 2011, at 9:41 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> sudo chown -R yourusername /path/to/your/grassdb
> 
> 
> On Sep 12, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Kurt Springs wrote:
> 
>> How would one go about transferring ownership?
>> 
>> Kurt
>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
>> 
>>> It sure looks like permissions are the problem here. The GUI needs to write things to your GIS Database and to temp files. If you are not the owner, there could be problems.
>>> 
>>> Michael
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>>> 
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>>> 
>>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:12 AM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:21:05 -0400
>>>> From: Kurt Springs <ferret_bard at mac.com>
>>>> Subject: [GRASS-user] Problem after Installing OS X 10.7
>>>> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> Message-ID: <B87EF884-61E7-4BD9-A790-0C4E80844E48 at mac.com>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>> 
>>>> I finally installed OS X 10.7.1.  Because I had a corruption with Java I did a clean install.  I?ve been gradually loading things back in. I ran into trouble when I got to GRASS.  I have William Kyngebure?s 6.4.1-5.  I launched it for the first time and got the following in Terminal:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ____
>>>>       __________  ___   __________    _______________
>>>>      / ____/ __ \/   | / ___/ ___/   / ____/  _/ ___/
>>>>     / / __/ /_/ / /| | \__ \\_  \   / / __ / / \__ \ 
>>>>    / /_/ / _, _/ ___ |___/ /__/ /  / /_/ // / ___/ / 
>>>>    \____/_/ |_/_/  |_/____/____/   \____/___//____/  
>>>> 
>>>> Welcome to GRASS 6.4.1 (2011) 
>>>> GRASS homepage:                          http://grass.osgeo.org/
>>>> This version running thru:               Bash Shell (/bin/bash)
>>>> Help is available with the command:      g.manual -i
>>>> See the licence terms with:              g.version -c
>>>> If required, restart the GUI with:       g.gui wxpython
>>>> When ready to quit enter:                exit
>>>> 
>>>> GRASS 6.4.1 (NH-State_Plane):~ > ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
>>>> ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
>>>> 2011-09-10 18:49:22.524 Python[1232:e0f] CFURLCreateWithString was passed this invalid URL string: '/System/Library/CoreServices/CommonCocoaPanels.bundle' (a file system path instead of an URL string). The URL created will not work with most file URL functions. CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath or CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPathRelativeToBase should be used instead.
>>>> 
>>>> GRASS 6.4.1 (NH-State_Plane):~ > exit
>>>> exit
>>>> /Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/Init.sh: line 899:  1232 Killed: 9               "$GRASS_PYTHON" "$GISBASE/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py"
>>>> 
>>>> Closing monitors ...
>>>> ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
>>>> Closing open gis.m sessions.....
>>>> Cleaning up temporary files ...
>>>> ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
>>>> Done.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Goodbye from GRASS GIS
>>>> 
>>>> logout
>>>> 
>>>> [Process completed]
>>>> '/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/grass.sh'; exit
>>>> Last login: Sat Sep 10 18:48:20 on ttys000
>>>> kurt-springss-mac-pro:~ kurtsprings$ '/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/grass.sh'; exit
>>>> Rebuilding Addon HTML manual pages index...
>>>> Rebuilding Addon menu...
>>>> 2011-09-10 19:01:52.382 osascript[1570:707] Error loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types, 262): no suitable image found.  Did find:
>>>> 	/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Unit Types: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
>>>> osascript: OpenScripting.framework - scripting addition "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/Adobe Unit Types.osax" declares no loadable handlers.
>>>> Python 2.6.6 found.
>>>> Cleaning up temporary files ...
>>>> Starting GRASS ...
>>>> ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
>>>> 2011-09-10 19:01:56.428 Python[1602:e0f] CFURLCreateWithString was passed this invalid URL string: '/System/Library/CoreServices/CommonCocoaPanels.bundle' (a file system path instead of an URL string). The URL created will not work with most file URL functions. CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath or CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPathRelativeToBase should be used instead.
>>>> ____
>>>> 
>>>> I?ve loaded the frame works.  Permissions were an issue as I moved things From time machine to a User with an (old) tag and ported them to my new user file.  I think  that was solved.  Everything I?ve checked gives my new User Read and Write permission.  
>>>> 
>>>> Any thoughts.
>>>> 
>>>> Kurt
>>>> 
>>> 
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