[GRASS-windows] r.shaded.relief problems

[Frank Broniewski]

Ok, after digging around a little I found out that installing the latest 
msys version (1.0.11) fixes my problems. This msys version contains some 
Vista specific fixes ...

BTW I tested the WinGRASS and OSGEO4W versions and had on both the same 
problems. It may be a good idea to upgrade the supplied version (osgeo4w 
Snapshot-2007.01.19-1) with the current msys producution release.

Frank

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From: "Frank Broniewski" <frank at frabron.de>
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:58 AM
To: "WinGRASS" <grass-windows at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [GRASS-windows] r.shaded.relief problems

> Hello list,
>
> I recently installed the latest wingrass (6.4.0svn (2009)) release on  my 
> Windows Vista 64 machine. The installation went well. But unfortunately I 
> discovered, that I cannot launch r.shaded.relief and some others, namely 
> r.tileset, g.manual and r.patch. There may be others by I haven't tested 
> all the commands. The r.patch is different from the others and I have 
> found the bug report for this problems, so I suppose I just need to wait 
> or disable the UAC, wich unfortunately is not an option in our company.
>
> For the other two commands I get a similar output as following:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:/GRASS/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 521, in
> OnMenuCmd
>
> menuform.GUI().ParseCommand(cmd, parentframe=self)
>  File "C:\GRASS\etc\wxpython\gui_modules\menuform.py", line
> 1812, in ParseCommand
>
> xml.sax.parseString(getInterfaceDescription(cmd[0]).decode(e
> nc).encode("utf-8"),
>  File "C:\GRASS\etc\wxpython\gui_modules\menuform.py", line
> 1751, in getInterfaceDescription
>
> raise IOError, _("Unable to fetch interface description for
> command '%s'.") % cmd
> IOError
> :
> Unable to fetch interface description for command
> 'r.shaded.relief'.
>
> Is this a known problem? Running the command from the GRASS command line 
> points to a problem with the batch file. Running the command with 
> the --help switch gives no output, but instead a new prompt: 
> "C:/GRASS/msys/bin/sh.exe"-2.04$
> You can cancel this with CTRL+C. r.shaded.relief.bat is indeed a batch 
> file wich calls a file in /scripts/. I noticed some other batch files and 
> all the batch files I tested do not work. There are no spaces in my 
> directory paths, users home dir is /users/frank, the mapset path has also 
> no spaces (D:\Frank\Dokumente\GISDataBase\demolocation).
> I tested some variants in the grass command shell and it seems that there 
> is a problem with the /msys/sh.exe. Calling r.fillnulls (as an example) 
> from within sh.exe gives the following errors:
>
> "c:/GRASS/msys/bin/sh.exe"-2.04$ c:/GRASS/scripts/r.fillnulls
>      0 [main] sh.exe" 3288 sync_with_child: child 2800(0x124) died before 
> initi
> alization with status code 0x0
>    383 [main] sh.exe" 3288 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for 
> longjmp
>
> "c:/GRASS/msys/bin/sh.exe": fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> "c:/GRASS/msys/bin/sh.exe"-2.04$
>
>
> Unfortunately this is as far as I can debug. So I hope that there is 
> someone who can give me a hint on how to deal with that problem.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Frank
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