R: R: [GRASS-windows] GRASS 6.3.0RC5

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Thu Mar 20 14:06:29 EDT 2008 

On 20/03/08 18:39, Adam Baker wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> First, let me thank you for your help. People like you make open source work.
> 
> I uninstalled and reinstalled the software, and reproduced the
> original problem (in which nothing happens at all).
> 
> As before, I modified grass63.bat so that this line:
>   GRASS_WISH=wish.exe
> Became this:
>   GRASS_WISH=%GRASSDIR%\tcl-tk\bin\wish.exe
> 
> That produced the same error message as before, after trying to open a dataset.
> 
> On a hunch, I tried changing GRASS_WISH back to the original value and
> adding %GRASSDIR%\tcl-tk\bin to the system path in grass63.bat, and
> now the program runs without incident. (I can load datasets, etc.)
> 
> So, to summarize for the sake of people encountering this message in
> the archive, my net change was to edit grass63.bat to insert this
> line:
>   set PATH=%PATH;%GRASSDIR%\tcl-tk\bin
> Just before this line:
>   set GRASS_WISH=wish.exe
> 
> 
> That is probably something that could be changed about the
> distribution. (?) I don't know why the problem arises on my system and
> not on others, but I don't believe the above would harm anything.

I seem to remember that you had also installed ActiveTcl, or ? Please 
try to uninstall that. Tcltk now comes packaged with the GRASS 
distribution. Maybe you are just experiencing a conflict between the 
different tcl/tk versions ?

Moritz

> 
> Thanks again,
> Adam
> 
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>> On 20/03/08 14:45, marco.pasetti at alice.it wrote:
>>  > Moritz,
>>  >
>>  >  >Also, before launching GRASS for the first time after re-installation
>>  >  >erase any remaining .grassrc6 files.
>>  >
>>  > Sorry, but I don't agree: uninstall procedure automatically erase
>>  > .grassrc6 file and the new installation creates a brand new .grassrc6
>>  > file according to user install path;
>>  > if you erase .grassrc6 file after re-installing GRASS, you'll miss the
>>  > correct GISBASE configuration
>>
>>  Sorry, I stand corrected. I didn't know that uninstall erases the file.
>>
>>  Moritz
>>
>>
>>
>>  >
>>  > Marco
>>  >
>>  > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  > *Da:* Moritz Lennert [mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be]
>>  > *Inviato:* gio 20/03/2008 13.50
>>  > *A:* marco.pasetti at alice.it
>>  > *Cc:* Markus Neteler; tabaker at u.arizona.edu;
>>  > grass-windows at lists.osgeo.org; Michael Barton
>>  > *Oggetto:* Re: R: [GRASS-windows] GRASS 6.3.0RC5
>>  >
>>  > On 20/03/08 12:53, marco.pasetti at alice.it wrote:
>>  >  > Hi Moritz,
>>  >  >
>>  >  > I read the mail yesterday, and I checked it out immediately; all seems
>>  >  > to work fine! I also unistalled and reinstalled winGRASS, to be sure
>>  >  > that at a *first* launch winGRASS works fine... and it is! every time
>>  >  > you install winGRASS installer replaces .grassrc6, so it starts with
>>  >  > predefined location (demolocation);
>>  >  >
>>  >  > I tried with .bat and MSYS *launch*, and it works fine for both.
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Adam, could you please perform another installation of WinGRASS?
>>  >  > uninstall the previous installation before.
>>  >
>>  > Also, before launching GRASS for the first time after re-installation
>>  > erase any remaining .grassrc6 files.
>>  >
>>  > Moritz
>>  >
>>  >  > Thanks
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Marco
>>  >  >
>>  >  > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  >  > *Da:* Moritz Lennert [mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be]
>>  >  > *Inviato:* gio 20/03/2008 12.38
>>  >  > *A:* Markus Neteler
>>  >  > *Cc:* tabaker at u.arizona.edu; grass-windows at lists.osgeo.org; Michael
>>  >  > Barton; marco.pasetti at alice.it
>>  >  > *Oggetto:* Re: [GRASS-windows] GRASS 6.3.0RC5
>>  >  >
>>  >  > On 20/03/08 11:01, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>  >  >  > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Moritz Lennert
>>  >  >  > <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>>  >  >  >> On 19/03/08 23:38, Adam Baker wrote:
>>  >  >  >>  > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Moritz Lennert
>>  >  >  >>  > <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>>  >  >  >>  >> On 19/03/08 17:12, Adam Baker wrote:
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > Hi, thanks for responding.
>>  >  >  >>  >>  >
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > I do have that file, C:\GRASS\tcl-tk\bin\wish.exe. When I run
>>  >  > it a
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > "console" and a "wish" window pop up.
>>  >  >  >>  >>  >
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > My grass63.bat file has a line:
>>  >  >  >>  >>  >    set GRASS_WISH=wish.exe
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > I made a guess and changed it to:
>>  >  >  >>  >>  >    set GRASS_WISH=C:\GRASS\tcl-tk\bin\wish.exe
>>  >  >  >>  >>  >
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > That got me farther: the GRASS startup window appears.
>>  >  > However, this
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > message is printed to the console:
>>  >  >  >>  >>  >
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > access: Invalid argument
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > ERROR: LOCATION << C:/GRASS/<UNKNOWN> >> not available
>>  >  >  >>  >>  >
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > And I get a Tcl-looking pop-up box that reads, "Warning:
>>  > location
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > <<UNKNOWN>> at GISDBASE <C:/GRASS> is not a directory or
>>  > does not
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > exist." When I close that, nothing seems wrong (but I wouldn't
>>  >  >  >>  >>  > necessarily know, since this is my first interaction the
>>  >  > program).
>>  >  >  >>  >>
>>  >  >  >>  >>  Nothing is wrong, just GRASS telling you that it doesn't have
>>  >  > correct
>>  >  >  >>  >>  information about a location to use, which is normal for a first
>>  >  >  >>  >>  startup. We absolutely have to fix this as it is scary enough
>>  >  > to make
>>  >  >  >>  >>  people belief something is seriously wrong.
>>  >  >  >>  >>
>>  >  >  >>  >>  You should not see this message again the next time you run
>>  > GRASS.
>>  >  >  >>  >>
>>  >  >  >>  >>  Moritz
>>  >  >  >>  >>
>>  >  >  >>  >>
>>  >  >  >>  >
>>  >  >  >>  > Hi,
>>  >  >  >>  >
>>  >  >  >>  > I did get that message multiple times, but it went away after I
>>  >  >  >>  > changed the "GIS Data Directory" field to C:/GRASS/GIS DataBase.
>>  >  >  >>
>>  >  >  >>  Yes, sorry. I meant that once you have entered grass
>>  > successfully once
>>  >  >  >>  and exited it again, the message should not appear anymore.
>>  >  >  >>
>>  >  >  >>
>>  >  >  >>  > Thereafter, if I select a "Project Location" and "Accessible
>>  > Mapset"
>>  >  >  >>  > and then "Enter GRASS,"  I get the message "Error setting region:
>>  >  >  >>  > child killed: unknown signal." Then another pop-up window with a
>>  >  >  >>  > lengthy message ("can't read "parts(w)": no such variable....")
>>  >  >  >>  > appears. Any idea about that? I can type out the whole thing if
>>  >  >  >>  > necessary.
>>  >  >  >>
>>  >  >  >>  My first guess would be that GRASS cannot find a nececssary
>>  > library...
>>  >  >  >
>>  >  >  > The error
>>  >  >  > can't read "parts(w)": no such variable....
>>  >  >  >
>>  >  >  > is usually related to GDAL-not-found.
>>  >  >  >
>>  >  >  > Try
>>  >  >  > g.region -p
>>  >  >  > in GRASS to see what it says.
>>  >  >  >
>>  >  >  > This happens often, e.g.
>>  >  >  >
>>  > http://www.nabble.com/cvs---error-Ubuntu-7.10-td13859038.html#a13876447
>>  >  >  > I don't understand why error catching on this fails again (it
>>  > worked for
>>  >  >  > a while!).
>>  >  >
>>  >  > I'm not sure it ever worked in wingrass. Another todo...
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Marco, could you check on this when you have the time again ? I suppose
>>  >  > your package contains the necessary libraries ?
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Moritz
>>  >  >
>>  >
>>
>>
>>

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