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

[Julian Bogdani]

Hello and thank you for the help.
I have an English system and checking with env I had correctly LC_CTYPE=UTF-8.
Terminal preferences was correctly set.

Adding export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 did solve the problem.

Thank you


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Julian

http://bradypus.net





On 27 Mar 2012, at 15:16 , William Kyngesburye wrote:

> 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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>> -----
>> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>> 
>> "Those people who most want to rule people are, ipso-facto, those least suited to do it."
>> 
>> - A rule of the universe, from the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>> 
>> 
> 
> -----
> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
> 
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> 
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> 
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