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

[Julian Bogdani]

Mine is 10.6.8


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Julian

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On 27 Mar 2012, at 15:47 , William Kyngesburye wrote:

> 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?
> 
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> 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
>> 
>> 
>> -----
>> Julian
>> 
>> http://bradypus.net
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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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