[GRASSLIST:1219] Grass 5 beta 9

GRASS GRASS user
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I just downloaded the Linux binaries, installed them, then tried to run
grass5, but got the following:

Starting GRASS ...
ERROR: Invalid user interface specified.
Use the -help option to grass for valid interfaces.

I tracked the message down to the Init.sh in etc, but that's as far as I got.
I've run grass on this machine before, including tcltkgrass, so I don't think
it's missing tcl or tk files. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Bill Kristan.

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Hi Bill

Bill Kristan wrote:

I just downloaded the Linux binaries, installed them, then tried to
run grass5, but got the following:

Starting GRASS ...
ERROR: Invalid user interface specified.
Use the -help option to grass for valid interfaces.

I tracked the message down to the Init.sh in etc, but that's as far as
I got. I've run grass on this machine before, including tcltkgrass, so
I don't think it's missing tcl or tk files. Any ideas?

This has something to do with the new startup. Could you plese tell me
exactly how you started grass, including any spaces. Also, try editing
the file etc/Init.sh and put the following line at line 209 (after the
"if [ ! "$LOCATION" ] ; then" line

echo "GUI = $GRASS_GUI"

and report what was printed for the GUI.

Thanks and we will try to find out what this problem is.

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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:18:17PM -0800, Bill Kristan wrote:

I just downloaded the Linux binaries, installed them, then tried to run
grass5, but got the following:

Starting GRASS ...
ERROR: Invalid user interface specified.
Use the -help option to grass for valid interfaces.

I tracked the message down to the Init.sh in etc, but that's as far as I got.
I've run grass on this machine before, including tcltkgrass, so I don't think
it's missing tcl or tk files. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Bill Kristan.

There've been some very recent changes to the start-up scripts and it
looks like all the kinks haven't been worked out. Try it with the -text
option, then maybe run tcltkgrass to see if it starts up then. This may
be the result of recent changes regarding ~/.grassrc5 wanting a
variable, but you have an existing copy from previous versions that
doesn't have this variable. After running that once, it maybe will
start up okay from then on.

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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>