Hi Vaclav, This seems to be the thread. http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/grass70-problem-with-gui-td5093509.html
As per Martin's suggestion if this error is tracked in error.log then atleast we know the grass-gui is broken. On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Rashad M <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi vaclav, > > here is the control file[1]. I think this should be fixed in packaging. > grass virtual package includes grass-gui package. Failure in building > grass-gui probably "xml or version key error" may result in the above > behavious. In that case a patch can be applied when building deb file so > that if wxpython dir is not found it can show a better error message. One > thing can be fixed is checking the error message from parsing like i said > above keyErorr['version']. There is a better complete error message a while > ago in grass-dev list. > > > [1] > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~grass/grass/grass64_release_debian/view/head:/control > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Vaclav Petras <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I used only the standard Ubuntu repository, Ubuntu 13.10, no ubuntugis, >> no grass-ppa. >> >> Just to understand, what change have you done? Can the change be viewed >> somewhere? Do you think that it should be fixed while packaging and not in >> GRASS (e.g., because it is hard to tell if it is a real error or just >> missing package)? >> >> Vaclav >> >> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Rashad M <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi Vaclav, >>> >>> I had made some changes in control script to fix this behaviour some >>> time ago. Could tell which version of Ubuntu you are using and thee ppa. >>> FYI, I had updated only grass-ppa[1] not in the ubuntugis >>> >>> [1] https://launchpad.net/~grass/+archive/grass-stable >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Vaclav Petras <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> when installing incomplete GRASS GIS 6.4.3 from packages on Ubuntu I >>>> get the following error when I start using `grass` command: >>>> >>>> Starting GRASS ... >>>> python: can't open file '/usr/lib/grass64/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py': >>>> [Errno 2] No such file or directory >>>> Received EXIT message from GUI. >>>> GRASS is not started. Bye. >>>> >>>> It is caused by the fact that I have installed grass-core and not >>>> grass-gui, so I have modules and `grass` command but I don't have any GUI. >>>> >>>> Although, packaging is what caused the problem, it seems that it is our >>>> problem since we claim that GRASS is usable without GUI or don't we? >>>> >>>> Once user reads `grass -h` he or she can realize that `grass -text` >>>> could start and it of course starts. The problem is that when grass-gui >>>> package is not available, text interface should start (should be the >>>> default or fallback), but once grass-gui is installed GUI should be the >>>> default option. >>>> >>>> Besides the start, modules do not have their GUIs: >>>> >>>> g.region --ui >>>> python: can't open file >>>> '/usr/lib/grass64/etc/wxpython/gui_core/forms.py': [Errno 2] No such file >>>> or directory >>>> >>>> This is not so critical error, just a better error message would be >>>> nice. Maybe, the better error message would be enough also at start up. >>>> Something, like "Have you installed GRASS GIS with GUI?" >>>> >>>> I haven't checked the source code but I guess that it is the same for >>>> all versions including trunk. >>>> >>>> Vaclav >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> grass-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Rashad >>> >> >> > > > -- > Regards, > Rashad > -- Regards, Rashad
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