I’m recompiling GRASS binaries and found that GRASS 6 is broken on the Mac. This is true for the current svn version I just updated and for the version I compiled 28 June–both release branch and dev branch. I updated all frameworks today, but I don’t know if I tested the 28 June version of GRASS 6 after I compiled it. So I don’t know if it is in the updated frameworks (updated on 29 June) or in the GRASS code. GRASS 7 works fine. When I try to launch GRASS 6, I get the following error after selecting a mapset and clicking ‘start grass’.
GRASS 6.4.3svn (Spearfish60_test):~ > Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py”, line 139, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py”, line 132, in main
app = GMApp(workspaceFile)
File “/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py”, line 45, in init
wx.App.init(self, False)
File “/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py”, line 7981, in init
self._BootstrapApp()
File “/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py”, line 7555, in _BootstrapApp
return core.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
File “/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py”, line 78, in OnInit
workspace = self.workspaceFile)
File “/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass64_rb/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/etc/wxpython/lmgr/frame.py”, line 108, in init
self.notebook = self._createNoteBook()
File “/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass64_rb/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/etc/wxpython/lmgr/frame.py”, line 257, in _createNoteBook
self.goutput = GMConsole(self)
File “/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass64_rb/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/etc/wxpython/gui_core/goutput.py”, line 240, in init
self.MakeSearchPaneContent(self.searchPane.GetPane())
File “/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass64_rb/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/etc/wxpython/gui_core/goutput.py”, line 356, in MakeSearchPaneContent
self.search = SearchModuleWindow(parent = pane, cmdPrompt = self.cmdPrompt)
File “/Users/Shared/grass_dev/grass64_rb/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0/etc/wxpython/gui_core/ghelp.py”, line 81, in init
self.searchChoice.SetItems(self.cmdPrompt.GetCommandItems())
File “/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py”, line 11997, in SetItems
self.AppendItems(items)
File “/Applications/GRASS/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py”, line 11859, in AppendItems
return core.ItemContainer_AppendItems(*args, **kwargs)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xe2 in position 100: ordinal not in range(128)
I have not changed my python or wxpython installation since the last time I had a working GRASS 6 (earlier in June).
Michael
C. Michael Barton
Visiting Scientist, Integrated Science Program
National Center for Atmospheric Research &
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
303-497-2889 (voice)
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu