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

[William Kyngesburye]

Huh.  Well, I did some poking around on the 'net and it looks like it's a bug in OS X 10.6 Terminal (LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 is wrong).  But it's working for me - maybe it was fixed in an update - what is your system version?


On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Julian Bogdani wrote:

> 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
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> 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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