[GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup

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1

Hi,

I get the following error on staring Grass 6.2 (compiled from yesterday):

$ grass62
Cleaning up temporary files.....
Starting GRASS ...
ERROR: Invalid user interface specified - gis.m.
Use the -help option to select a valid interface.
$

No windows open. However, starting with grass62 -gui works as usual: the graphical location selector opens, and gis.m opens normally after a Location is selected.

~ Eric.

2

Is it something odd in your .grassrc6 file?

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton@nrcan.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:32:40 -0500
To: <grassuser@grass.itc.it>
Cc: <grass-dev@grass.itc.it>
Subject: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup

Hi,

I get the following error on staring Grass 6.2 (compiled from yesterday):

$ grass62
Cleaning up temporary files.....
Starting GRASS ...
ERROR: Invalid user interface specified - gis.m.
Use the -help option to select a valid interface.
$

No windows open. However, starting with grass62 -gui works as usual: the
graphical location selector opens, and gis.m opens normally after a Location
is selected.

~ Eric.

3

Here's my .grassrc6:

GISDBASE: /home/epatton/Projects
WORK: /home/epatton/Projects/BlackPoint/PERMANENT/WORK
DEBUG: 0
LOCATION_NAME: FundyBathy
MAPSET: GOM2_Year1_June_2006
MONITOR: x0
GRASS_GUI: gis.m

~ Eric.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Barton
To: Patton, Eric; grassuser@grass.itc.it
Cc: grass-dev@grass.itc.it
Sent: 11/8/2006 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup

Is it something odd in your .grassrc6 file?

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton@nrcan.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:32:40 -0500
To: <grassuser@grass.itc.it>
Cc: <grass-dev@grass.itc.it>
Subject: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup

Hi,

I get the following error on staring Grass 6.2 (compiled from

yesterday):

$ grass62
Cleaning up temporary files.....
Starting GRASS ...
ERROR: Invalid user interface specified - gis.m.
Use the -help option to select a valid interface.
$

No windows open. However, starting with grass62 -gui works as usual:

the

graphical location selector opens, and gis.m opens normally after a

Location

is selected.

~ Eric.

4

Patton, Eric wrote:

Here's my .grassrc6:

GISDBASE: /home/epatton/Projects
WORK: /home/epatton/Projects/BlackPoint/PERMANENT/WORK
DEBUG: 0
LOCATION_NAME: FundyBathy
MAPSET: GOM2_Year1_June_2006
MONITOR: x0
GRASS_GUI: gis.m

If you replace the latter with

GRASS_GUI: tcltk

it should work.

This is linked to Hamish' changes to allow a more precise choice of gui:

http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass-commit/2006-November/024978.html

GRASS_GUI: gis.m works for me in 6.3, but I don't think these changes were backported to 6.2. So if you work in a mixed 6.2/6.3 environment, this might break things (i.e. launching grass with the -tcltk command in 6.3 automatically puts 'gis.m' in the GRASS_GUI variable, but 6.2 does not recognize this value).

Moritz

~ Eric.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Barton
To: Patton, Eric; grassuser@grass.itc.it
Cc: grass-dev@grass.itc.it
Sent: 11/8/2006 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup

Is it something odd in your .grassrc6 file?

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton@nrcan.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:32:40 -0500
To: <grassuser@grass.itc.it>
Cc: <grass-dev@grass.itc.it>
Subject: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup

Hi,

I get the following error on staring Grass 6.2 (compiled from

yesterday):

$ grass62
Cleaning up temporary files.....
Starting GRASS ...
ERROR: Invalid user interface specified - gis.m.
Use the -help option to select a valid interface.
$

No windows open. However, starting with grass62 -gui works as usual:

the

graphical location selector opens, and gis.m opens normally after a

Location

is selected.

~ Eric.

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5

I saw these changes but hadn't looked into them yet.

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

From: Moritz Lennert <mlennert@club.worldonline.be>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:44:15 +0100
To: "Patton, Eric" <epatton@nrcan.gc.ca>
Cc: Michael Barton <michael.barton@asu.edu>, <grassuser@grass.itc.it>,
<grass-dev@grass.itc.it>, Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] RE: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup

Patton, Eric wrote:

Here's my .grassrc6:

GISDBASE: /home/epatton/Projects
WORK: /home/epatton/Projects/BlackPoint/PERMANENT/WORK
DEBUG: 0
LOCATION_NAME: FundyBathy
MAPSET: GOM2_Year1_June_2006
MONITOR: x0
GRASS_GUI: gis.m

If you replace the latter with

GRASS_GUI: tcltk

it should work.

This is linked to Hamish' changes to allow a more precise choice of gui:

http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass-commit/2006-November/024978.html

GRASS_GUI: gis.m works for me in 6.3, but I don't think these changes
were backported to 6.2. So if you work in a mixed 6.2/6.3 environment,
this might break things (i.e. launching grass with the -tcltk command in
6.3 automatically puts 'gis.m' in the GRASS_GUI variable, but 6.2 does
not recognize this value).

Moritz

~ Eric.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Barton
To: Patton, Eric; grassuser@grass.itc.it
Cc: grass-dev@grass.itc.it
Sent: 11/8/2006 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup

Is it something odd in your .grassrc6 file?

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton@nrcan.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:32:40 -0500
To: <grassuser@grass.itc.it>
Cc: <grass-dev@grass.itc.it>
Subject: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup

Hi,

I get the following error on staring Grass 6.2 (compiled from

yesterday):

$ grass62
Cleaning up temporary files.....
Starting GRASS ...
ERROR: Invalid user interface specified - gis.m.
Use the -help option to select a valid interface.
$

No windows open. However, starting with grass62 -gui works as usual:

the

graphical location selector opens, and gis.m opens normally after a

Location

is selected.

~ Eric.

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grassuser@grass.itc.it
http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser

6

Moritz Lennert wrote:

Patton, Eric wrote:
> Here's my .grassrc6:

..

> GRASS_GUI: gis.m

If you replace the latter with

GRASS_GUI: tcltk

it should work.

This is linked to Hamish' changes to allow a more precise choice of
gui:
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass-commit/2006-November/024978.html

GRASS_GUI: gis.m works for me in 6.3, but I don't think these changes
were backported to 6.2. So if you work in a mixed 6.2/6.3 environment,
this might break things (i.e. launching grass with the -tcltk command
in 6.3 automatically puts 'gis.m' in the GRASS_GUI variable, but 6.2
does not recognize this value).

ah, I hadn't thought of that. I've reset the -gui target to "tcltk" in
6.3-cvs so the .grassrc6 files stay backwards compatible for the vast
majority of
folks.

should the d.m-remembering change be backported to 6.2? I wasn't
planning on it, but I'd overlooked this breakage.

Hamish