[GRASS-user] Error on start up - session manager - ubuntu 16.04

[Anna Petrášová]

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 3:16 AM, Lars Dalby <lars.dalby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list
>
> When starting GRASS 7.2.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 I got this error message on start
> up:
> "Debug: Failed to connect to session manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment
> variable not defined"

Does it actually cause any problems? This happens on Ubuntu (not sure
why), but it should be harmless.
>
> Then searching the web for solutions I found this thread:
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/SESSION-MANAGER-environment-variable-not-defined-td5181059.html
> I tried "export SESSION_MANAGER=1" as suggested in the thread which resulted
> in a new error on start up:
> "_IceTransOpen: Unable to Parse address 1 08:49:34 AM: Debug: Failed to
> connect to session manager: Could not open network socket"
> At this point I decided that it was time I admitted that I don't know what
> I'm doing! :-)
>
> Can anybody help me sort out this issue?
>
> I have python 3.5.2 and python 2.7.12 installed. Only in python 2.7.12 does
> wx appear to be available and in version wx-3.0-gtk2.

GRASS doesn't have official Python 3 support. There has just been
released wxPython 4.0 which has Python 3 support, but porting GRASS is
work in progress.

Anna

> When starting GRASS from the terminal I see the above mentioned error but
> the GRASS gui starts and I can open a location.
>
> Best
> Lars
>
>
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