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

[William Kyngesburye]

That's not it then.  10.6.8 here also.

Did you try turning on the Terminal pref to set the locale?

On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Julian Bogdani wrote:

> Mine is 10.6.8
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> On 27 Mar 2012, at 15:47 , William Kyngesburye wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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>>> On 27 Mar 2012, at 15:16 , William Kyngesburye wrote:
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>>>> I forgot to add a bash_profile example:
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>>>> 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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