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

William Kyngesburye woklist at kyngchaos.com
Tue Mar 27 10:27:52 EDT 2012 

Ah well, I guess it will remain a mystery.  I'll add something to the readme...

On Mar 27, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Julian Bogdani wrote:

> Yes,
> I have in Terminal > Settings > Advanced:
> Character encoding Unicode (UTF-8)
> and "Set locale environment variables on startup" checked
> 
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> Julian
> 
> http://bradypus.net
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> On 27 Mar 2012, at 16:05 , William Kyngesburye wrote:
> 
>> 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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