[GRASS-dev] Old version of msys in package causes problems on Windows Vista (x64)

FYI:

http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/118

Reported by: brfr
This ticket concerns the WinGRASS and OSGEO4W versions on Windows Vista (x64).

I had problems executing grass commands that are batch files. I tested some variants in the grass command shell and it seems that there is a problem with the >/msys/sh.exe. I tried the latest version that is available on the MSYS/MinGW website and that solved my problems. The shipped version with OSGEO4W is >"Snapshot-2007.01.19-1", the currently available is "Production Release". My notes are available on the mailing list.

Issues in the GUIs: No menu opened for the commands. The log showed error messages like

     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'.

Using the grass shell shows error messages like

"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
initialization 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$
This lead me to the conclusion that there were problems with the shell program itself.

Helmut

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