[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-user] Mac QGIS 3 GRASS fix

William Kyngesburye woklist at kyngchaos.com
Tue Jul 3 16:18:55 PDT 2018 

Is it the same error for what the pull request fixes?

"/Applications/QGIS3.app/Contents/MacOS/grass/etc/colors/grass: Permission denied"

That should be fixed, but GRASS7 still has unresolved problems in the macOS package.  I haven't had time to look at it.

> On Jul 3, 2018, at 6:02 PM, Mr. Stace D Maples <stacemaples at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> Then, it doesn’t work.
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> From: William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
> Reply-To: William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at kyngchaos.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 3:54 PM
> To: "Mr. Stace D Maples" <stacemaples at stanford.edu>
> Cc: Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>, "qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org List" <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>, QGIS Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] [QGIS-Developer] Mac QGIS 3 GRASS fix
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> The fix is a pull request that appeared in a later email in this thread, and that has been merged and should be in the latest release.
>  
>> On Jul 3, 2018, at 5:28 PM, Mr. Stace D Maples <stacemaples at stanford.edu> wrote:
>>  
>> This thread is "Mac QGIS 3 GRASS fix, but I don't see anything that fixes the problem. Has anyone managed to get GRASS working in QGIS3 for OSX? I'm running the latest installer QGIS-macOS-3.2.0-1.dmg and it's still not working. 
>> 
>> Also, we've put an inquiry in with Andreas Neumann about how to support (financially and otherwise) the creation of proper OSX installers that are stable enough to depend upon for research and deploy enterprise wide. We've not heard back and it's been about 3 weeks. Is there another venue for us to contact QGIS.org to try to get this properly funded so we can move on to work that matters, rather than installing and uninstalling non-working distributions?
>> 
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>> "I have a map of the United States... actual size. 
>> It says, "Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile." 
>> I spent last summer folding it." 
>> -Steven Wright-
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/22/18, 6:34 PM, "Qgis-user on behalf of William Kyngesburye" <qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
>> 
>>    Yes, that looks like the source of the problem.  The os.walk() finds the color file named "grass" before it has a chance to find the real "grass72" file at the top level of the grasspath.  Though this is odd since it looks like os.walk by default should return a folder's info before it walks subfolders.
>> 
>>    I don't think a file check will help, since it finds a file from the returned files list.  I do think the walking the whole grasspath tree is excessive.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 22, 2018, at 5:56 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 23 March 2018 at 08:47, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Well, it seems that running any GRASS Processing coughs up this error.
>>>> Mystery to me, permissions are correct for the app, nothing should be
>>>> writing to the app, and if it is trying that's wrong.
>>>> 
>>>> The error doesn't help me try to figure out what's going on.  Help would be
>>>> appreciated.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I believe it's this bug:
>>> 
>>> https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17555
>>> 
>>> The permission errors is caused because it's actually trying to
>>> execute /Applications/QGIS3.app/Contents/MacOS/grass/etc/colors/grass
>>> instead of the correct grass binary.
>>> 
>>> The bug is caused by this function:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/python/plugins/processing/algs/grass7/Grass7Utils.py#L130
>>> 
>>> It's trying to automatically generate the grass executable path, but
>>> it's incorrectly finding the colors/grass folder and deciding that
>>> it's the grass executable. I think inserting a os.path.isfile check
>>> somewhere around line 145 should fix this, but not having access to an
>>> osx install I haven't been able to test this.
>>> 
>>> Hope that helps -- would be great to have this one sorted for 3.0.1 if
>>> you can confirm a fix!
>>> 
>>> Nyall
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 22, 2018, at 1:10 PM, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> What are you doing?  GRASS plugin tools or Processing GRASS algorithms?
>>>> 
>>>> Nothing should be trying to write to the GRASS dir.  There should not be
>>>> permissions problem reading from the GRASS dir.
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 22, 2018, at 11:00 AM, jehdukeegr at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks William.  I'm still getting some sort of error using grass.  Not sure
>>>> if this is still related.
>>>> 
>>>> /var/folders/d3/q41sw4cj5_s479lpjf1z3hwc0000gn/T/processing_7fd31b05f63f437c84dee066f864d9f9/grassdata/temp_location/PERMANENT:
>>>> /Applications/QGIS3.app/Contents/MacOS/grass/etc/colors/grass: Permission
>>>> denied
>>>> /var/folders/d3/q41sw4cj5_s479lpjf1z3hwc0000gn/T/processing_7fd31b05f63f437c84dee066f864d9f9/grassdata/temp_location/PERMANENT:
>>>> /Applications/QGIS3.app/Contents/MacOS/grass/etc/colors/grass: Permission
>>>> denied
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:36 AM, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> The non-working GRASS in the Mac QGIS 3 should be fixed now.  It appears
>>>>> the GRASS internals still don't like spaces in the path to GRASS -- this
>>>>> came from my adding "3" to the QGIS app name with a space.  The app is now
>>>>> without a space, "QGIS3.app".
>>>>> 
>>>>> It looks like the missing SAGA is also fixed by the rebuild (don't know
>>>>> why, it just happened).
>>>>> 
>>>>> REMINDER: My QGIS 3 package requires the python.org Python 3.  Other
>>>>> distributions/installations of Python are not supported (ie Homebrew,
>>>>> Macports, Anaconda...).
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