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HM

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Registered: 2007-11-18

Posts: 34

[solved] grass64 and wxpython

Hello fellow Archers,

After the recent python upgrade I bumped into problem with Grass GIS.
Version 6.4.0-4 from the community repos can not start with the wxpython gui. Looks like it is a python issue. The old tcltk interface is still working.
Same issue with the grass-svn packeage from AUR.

BTW are there any fellow Archers using GIS? I see little posts on GIS related issues.

Cheers and keep up the good work. With great satisfaction I am using Arch for already 2 years.

Last edited by HM (2010-11-14 08:31:20)

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [solved] grass64 and wxpython

grass and wxpython were both rebuilt to accommodate the new python implementation. Post some error output if you want a more useful answer.

HM

Member

Registered: 2007-11-18

Posts: 34

Re: [solved] grass64 and wxpython

Hi,

this is what shows up in terminal when starting grass64:

 
[huub@belebeleba2 ~]$ grass64
Cleaning up temporary files ...
Starting GRASS ...
  File "/opt/grass-6.4.0/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 474
    except StandardError, e:
                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Error in GUI startup. If necessary, please
report this error to the GRASS developers.
Switching to text mode now.
Hit RETURN to continue...

thanks

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HM

Member

Registered: 2007-11-18

Posts: 34

Re: [solved] grass64 and wxpython

I filed a bug report and the issue is solved.
Version 6.4.0.5 with a fix is in the repos as from yesterday. Thanks to the maintainer!

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iamacdo

Member

Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 1

Re: [solved] grass64 and wxpython

I have just installed grass-6.4.1-1 and get a

Starting GRASS ...
  File "/opt/grass-6.4.0/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 466
    except StandardError, e:

error as reported by HM on 2010-11-14 for version 6.4.0-4.

Has the same problem resurfaced and if so, does anyone know what the fix was?

Thanks

stringman

Member

Registered: 2011-06-29

Posts: 1

Re: [solved] grass64 and wxpython

It seems to be python2 vs python3 problem.
I fixed my setup changing   'GRASS_PYTHON=python'  to  'GRASS_PYTHON=python2' in file '/opt/grass-6.4.1/etc/Init.sh'

EDIT: perhaps setting GRASS_PYTHON variable before starting grass is a cleaner approach :-), ie:

GRASS_PYTHON=python2; grass64

Last edited by stringman (2011-06-29 12:28:09)