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

[Ralf Schäfer]

Hello,
I observed exactly the same problem on a Mac with 10.6.x of a student and we identified an R installation as the culprit, during which the student had done changes in the terminal...
So I would think that the Terminal preferences were changed by some other installation rather than it would be a bug.

Cheers
Ralf

 

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