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

[Ralf Schäfer]

Can`t tell you exactly - we had a GIS/GRASS course and she was the only student having this problem. And when I fixed the Terminal language issue, she reported that she had never changed anything in Terminal except for some installation associated with R/X11.
However, I have these installed as well (and dozens of other students with Macs) without a problem.
Generally just wanted to make the point that it is probably not a bug but some user change in Terminal that leads to the problem...
Cheers
Ralf

Am 28.03.2012 um 01:33 schrieb William Kyngesburye:

> What changes?  I have R installed, though I don't use it except to compile rgdal for distribution.
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> On Mar 27, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Ralf Schäfer wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>>> 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.
>>>>>> 
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