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

[William Kyngesburye]

I forgot to add a bash_profile example:

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

substitute your language code for en_US.

On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:11 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> 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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