[GRASS-user] Error launching GUI in Grass 7.8.1

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Eric,

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 4:20 PM Eric Patton
<eric.r.patton at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I upgraded my Grass version from 7.6.0 to 7.6.1 via the UbuntuGIS PPA in my package manager, and on launching the new version for the first time today, I get the following error:
>
> grass -gui
> Starting GRASS GIS...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/grass78/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 43, in <module>
>     from startup.guiutils import SetSessionMapset, NewMapsetDialog
>   File "/usr/lib/grass78/gui/wxpython/startup/guiutils.py", line 25, in <module>
>     from gui_core.dialogs import TextEntryDialog
>   File "/usr/lib/grass78/gui/wxpython/gui_core/dialogs.py", line 50, in <module>
>     from gui_core.gselect import LocationSelect, MapsetSelect, Select, \
>   File "/usr/lib/grass78/gui/wxpython/gui_core/gselect.py", line 64, in <module>
>     from gui_core.widgets import ManageSettingsWidget, CoordinatesValidator
>   File "/usr/lib/grass78/gui/wxpython/gui_core/widgets.py", line 92, in <module>
>     from gui_core.wrap import Button, SearchCtrl, StaticText, StaticBox, \
>   File "/usr/lib/grass78/gui/wxpython/gui_core/wrap.py", line 39, in <module>
>     from wx import NewIdRef as NewId
> ImportError: cannot import name 'NewIdRef'
> ERROR: Error in GUI startup. See messages above (if any) and if necessary, please report this error to the GRASS developers.
> On systems with package manager, make sure you have the right GUI package, probably named grass-gui, installed.
> To run GRASS GIS in text mode use the --text flag.
> Use '--help' for further options
>      grass78 --help
> See also: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/manuals/helptext.html
> Exiting...
>
>
> I'm running it on Linux Mint 19.2, with gdal 2.4.2, proj 5.2.1, and wx libraries are 3.0.4. Running grass -text seems to be ok.

There was this related change some time ago:
https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/155
wxGUI: NewIdRef was added only in wxPyhton 4.0.3. Fix import for <4.0.3

Apparently not enough?

Markus