[Ubuntu] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [GRASS-stats] [Fwd: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Errror with gmeta6()]]]

[Agustin Lobo]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Fwd: Re: [GRASS-stats] [Fwd: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Errror with
gmeta6()]]
Date: 	Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:27:07 +0200
From: 	Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	Agustin.Lobo at ija.csic.es
To: 	"Jürgen E. Fischer" <jef at norbit.de>, ubuntu at lists.osgeo.org, Markus
Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>
References: 	<4AAD572A.5000902 at gmail.com> <20090913210156.GA6909 at norbit.de>



Jürgen,
If I delete grass.conf, purge grass and install again, I get the error:
g.region: error while loading shared libraries: libgrass_vect.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error in if (file.exists(file) == FALSE) if (!missing(asText) && asText
==  :
  argument is of length zero
Error in parseGRASS(cmd) : g.region not parsed

grass.conf must include the line
/usr/lib/grass64/lib
and not
/usr/lib/grass/lib
as it does by default with the current ubutugis installation (I think)

After modifying grass.conf, I have to run ldconfig
and things go back to normality

I feel in the middle of a nobody's land. Hope someone at ubuntugis
will get interested on the error. It's solved for me, but
sure others will be confused. Anybody willing to fix this problem,
please contact me for full details.

Agus

Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi Agus,
>
> On Sun, 13. Sep 2009 at 22:33:46 +0200, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>   
>> There is a problem with the grass.conf file not
>> having the correct path (see below, grass libraries
>> are now under /usr/lib/grass64/lib instead of /usr/lib/grass/lib) and
>> Markus Netteler suggests this is a packaging
>> problem in  libgdal1-1.6.0 (but I might be misunderstanding)
>>     
>
> grass.conf belongs/ed to grass.
>
> But I think that grass.conf is residue from an old installation.  Try to purge
> grass, remove grass.conf if it's still there and reinstall the package.  You'll
> probably find that there isn't a grass.conf anymore.
>
> I'd say that that is intentional and the application using grass has to setup
> it's environment correctly, ie. set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> At least that is what the grass plugin in qgis does: it diverts qgis to a shell
> script that sets up LD_LIBRARY_PATH and then starts the original binary.
>
> So I'd say the bug is not in grass (except that it maybe should cleanup old
> grass.confs), but in the other package.
>
>
> Jürgen
>
>
> PS: BTW the list to discuss ubuntugis packages is ubuntu at lists.osgeo.org.
>
>