[GRASS-user] Grass GUI does not start (anymore) in MacOs

[William Kyngesburye]

Hmm, this is becoming quite an issue on non-English systems, I don't know why it started.  Python expects the locale to be in the form language.encoding.  ie english is "en_US.UTF-8".

Normally the option in the Terminal to set this automatically takes care of this in the LANG variable, but Python checks LC_CTYPE and LC_ALL first and somehow one of those is getting set on non-english systems.

The fix is to set LC_ALL in your ~/.bash_profile like LANG is set for your language (turn on the "Set locale env variables on startup" option in the advanced Settings in Terminal Preferences, then check "env" in a Terminal).

Note: the Adobe Unit Types error is harmless noise, you just have a very old Photoshop installed.

On Mar 27, 2012, at 2:55 AM, jbogdani wrote:

> Hello,
> I've a problem with GRASS on Snow Leopard. I've used successfully GRASS in
> the past, but it does not start in the GUI mode anymore. I can use it throw
> QGIS anyway.
> Here is the error it produces on stratup:
> 
> 2012-03-27 09:52:23.326 osascript[534:903] 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 2.6.1 found.
> 
> And then, after hitting RETURN:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py",
> line 894, in <module>
>    GRASSStartUp = StartUp(0)
>  File
> "/Users/Shared/unix/wxpython-snow/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-mac-unicode/wx/_core.py",
> line 7981, in __init__
>  File
> "/Users/Shared/unix/wxpython-snow/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-mac-unicode/wx/_core.py",
> line 7555, in _BootstrapApp
>  File "/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py",
> line 865, in OnInit
>    StartUp = GRASSStartup()
>  File "/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py",
> line 57, in __init__
>    self.grassrc  = self._readGisRC()
>  File "/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py",
> line 393, in _readGisRC
>    grassrc[key.strip()] = utils.DecodeString(val.strip())
>  File
> "/Users/Shared/src/GRASS/grass-6.4.2-snow/dist.i386-apple-darwin11.3.0/etc/wxpython/gui_modules/utils.py",
> line 667, in DecodeString
>  File
> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/locale.py",
> line 459, in getdefaultlocale
>    return _parse_localename(localename)
>  File
> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/locale.py",
> line 391, in _parse_localename
>    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
> ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
> Error in GUI startup. If necessary, please
> report this error to the GRASS developers.
> Switching to text mode now.
> Hit RETURN to continue...
> 
> 
> After this I can use GRASS only from terminal....
> Any help?
> 
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