Grass SVN (51807) doesn’t launch: Path '…/<UNKNOWN>/<UNKNOWN>' doesn't exist

[vince]

I’ve tried to compile the current SVN version in hope it would work with the latest wxPython (2.9 svn, universal) with TCL/TK disabled (Tk does not build universal). But it simply does not launch. The console appears, I get a message:

Path '~/<UNKNOWN>/<UNKNOWN>' doesn't exist

(where I have substituted ~ for the location to my home path in full text) and the console exits with logout.

As if all the initial steps to specify a location were simply omitted.

[wenzeslaus]

Is this still relevant for current trunk (e.g. GRASS 7 build from 10 February 2014 from ​http://grassmac.wikidot.com/ or self compiled r59071)?

[vince]

I'm going to test this. Give me two or three days to figure out. Thanks!

[lucadelu]

Replying to vince:

I'm going to test this. Give me two or three days to figure out. Thanks!

Do you have any news?

Could we close this ticket?

[vince]

Geez. I'm sorry, I totally overlooked that. Can it wait until next week? I'll then get down to help on the packaging of Grass 7 for Macports and so I'll have time to test that out.

Sorry for the (inacceptable, granted) delay.

[wenzeslaus]

Is this still relevant for current trunk or latest release (e.g. GRASS 7 build from GRASS 7.0.4 stable from ​​http://grassmac.wikidot.com/ or self compiled trunk r68425)?

[wenzeslaus]

The trunk (7.5/7.7) starts for me with no ~/.grass7 directory (a state which generates <UNKNOWN>/<UNKNOWN> internally) on Linux. I did some improvements in error handling there and there might have been more changes I don't recall. Currently, a nice error message is reported when starting in text mode (no GUI at all) and not providing mapset in the command line.

ERROR: Unable to start GRASS GIS. You have the choice to:
 - Launch the graphical user interface with the '-gui' switch
     grass75 -gui
 - Launch with path to the location/mapset as an argument
     grass75 /path/to/location/mapset`
 - Create a location with '-c' and launch in its PERMANENT mapset
     grass75 -c EPSG:number /path/to/location
     grass75 -c geofile /path/to/location
 - Create manually the GISRC file (/home/vpetras/.grass7/rc)
 - Use '--help' for further options
     grass75 --help
See also: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass75/manuals/helptext.html
Exiting...
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Closing as fixed.

[neteler]

In the help text, shouldn't it be --gui rather than -gui (appears two times)?

In the terminal --gui is shown with --help...

[wenzeslaus]

Error reports further improved in r73263.

r73262 and r73264 change -gui and -text in the messages to --gui and --text according to wiki:Grass8Planning. The preference of --gui over -gui is fairly new (since r73100, after 7.4), so we still have -gui etc. on couple more places.

grep --exclude-dir={.svn,OBJ.*,dist.*,bin.*,locale} -IrnE "[^-a-z]-gui[^_]"

[neteler]

Replying to wenzeslaus:

r73262 and r73264 change -gui and -text in the messages to --gui and --text according to wiki:Grass8Planning. The preference of --gui over -gui is fairly new (since r73100, after 7.4), so we still have -gui etc. on couple more places.

I have searched across the source code tree of trunk and relbranch76 and updated all occurrences of -text, -gtext, -gui to --text, --gtext, --gui in messages and manuals accordingly (r73265 and r73266).

[wenzeslaus]

Replying to neteler:

Replying to wenzeslaus:

r73262 and r73264 change -gui and -text in the messages to --gui and --text according to wiki:Grass8Planning. The preference of --gui over -gui is fairly new (since r73100, after 7.4), so we still have -gui etc. on couple more places.

I have searched across the source code tree of trunk and relbranch76 and updated all occurrences of -text, -gtext, -gui to --text, --gtext, --gui in messages and manuals accordingly (r73265 and r73266).

Thanks. We are a step closer to GRASS GIS 8.0! (wiki updated)