[GRASS-user] Error when I start GRASS

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I appreciate your help to correct the following error when I start GRASS on my Mac.:

Mac-Ricardo:~ ricardoflaviozunigacorzo$ ‘/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/grass.sh’; exit
Rebuilding Addon HTML manual pages index…
Rebuilding Addon menu…
Python 2.6.7 found.

WELCOME TO GRASS Version 6.4.2 2012

  1. Have at your side all available GRASS tutorials

  2. When working on your location, the following materials
    are extremely useful:

  • A topo map of your area
  • Current catalog of available computer maps
  1. Check the GRASS webpages for feedback mailinglists and more:
    http://www.grass-gis.org
    http://grass.osgeo.org

Hit RETURN to continue

Starting GRASS …
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py”, line 894, in
GRASSStartUp = StartUp(0)
File “/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py”, line 7981, in init
self._BootstrapApp()
File “/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py”, line 7555, in _BootstrapApp
return core.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
File “/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py”, line 865, in OnInit
StartUp = GRASSStartup()
File “/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py”, line 57, in init
self.grassrc = self._readGisRC()
File “/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py”, line 393, in _readGisRC
grassrc[key.strip()] = utils.DecodeString(val.strip())
File “/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gui_modules/utils.py”, line 667, in DecodeString
enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
File “/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/locale.py”, line 478, in getdefaultlocale
File “/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/locale.py”, line 410, in _parse_localename
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
Error in GUI startup. If necessary, please
report this error to the GRASS developers.
Switching to text mode now.

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On 03/06/2012 19:27, "Prof. Ricardo Zúñiga" wrote:

ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
Error in GUI startup. If necessary, please
report this error to the GRASS developers.
Switching to text mode now.

What is the output of locale on your system?

Hermann

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This is a common problem (search the list for details) - I have yet to find the source of the problem, but the solution is to set LC_CTYPE in your ~/.bash_profile:

export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

If you want a different language, you need to know what your language code is. 'locale' might help (one of the other LC_* or LANG values), but that's where the problem is.

On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Prof. Ricardo Zúñiga wrote:

I appreciate your help to correct the following error when I start GRASS on my Mac.:

Mac-Ricardo:~ ricardoflaviozunigacorzo$ '/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/grass.sh'; exit
Rebuilding Addon HTML manual pages index...
Rebuilding Addon menu...
Python 2.6.7 found.

WELCOME TO GRASS Version 6.4.2 2012

   1) Have at your side all available GRASS tutorials

   2) When working on your location, the following materials
      are extremely useful:
      - A topo map of your area
      - Current catalog of available computer maps

   3) Check the GRASS webpages for feedback mailinglists and more:
      http://www.grass-gis.org
      http://grass.osgeo.org

Hit RETURN to continue

Starting GRASS ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 894, in <module>
    GRASSStartUp = StartUp(0)
  File "/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py", line 7981, in __init__
    self._BootstrapApp()
  File "/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/wx/_core.py", line 7555, in _BootstrapApp
    return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 865, in OnInit
    StartUp = GRASSStartup()
  File "/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 57, in __init__
    self.grassrc = self._readGisRC()
  File "/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 393, in _readGisRC
    grassrc[key.strip()] = utils.DecodeString(val.strip())
  File "/Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/wxpython/gui_modules/utils.py", line 667, in DecodeString
    enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 478, in getdefaultlocale
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 410, in _parse_localename
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
Error in GUI startup. If necessary, please
report this error to the GRASS developers.
Switching to text mode now.
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2012/6/3 William Kyngesburye <woklist@kyngchaos.com>:

This is a common problem (search the list for details) - I have yet to find the source of the problem, but the solution is to set LC_CTYPE in your ~/.bash_profile:

AFAIR should be fixed in 6.4.3 (at least GUI should start on invalid
locale code).

Martin

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On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Hermann Peifer <peifer@gmx.eu> wrote:

On 03/06/2012 19:27, "Prof. Ricardo Zúñiga" wrote:

ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
Error in GUI startup. If necessary, please
report this error to the GRASS developers.
Switching to text mode now.

What is the output of locale on your system?

Yes, what does
echo $LANG
say?

A reason could be the encoding of the message files
in GRASS for your language.

Markus