Helmut, thank you very much for quick advice - for one of the students osgeo4w-winGRASS6.4.3 works along ArcGIS10.1 so we will try this out in the lab as well and report back. Hopefully this will solve the problem,
Helena Helena Mitasova Associate Professor Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences 2800 Faucette Drive, Rm. 1125 Jordan Hall North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8208 hmit...@ncsu.edu "All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.” On Aug 16, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: > hi Helena, > >> After clicking on the GRASS icon the cli window just flashes and the > startup page >> does not open. > > did you activated to download the needed microsoft runtimes? it's on the > download tab (ms files and sample datasets) during the installation of the > standalone installer. > >> It is worrisome that the final release is more problematic than RC2, but I > am wondering whether the problem >is on our side - perhaps the GRASS6.4.3RC2 > should be uninstalled before installing GRASS6.4.3 final? > > give it a try. > >> We have ArcGIS running on these machines and I am aware of the python > issues I am just wondering >whether RC2 had a better solution for the GRASS > startup than the final release. > > RC2 has no better solution, but another python version than ArcGIS. > > if you have ArcGIS 10.1, then the trouble comes in. > > ArcGIS 10.1 and WinGRASS6.4.3 have the same python version (python 2.7.x) > >> If there is no easy fix, would it be possible to provide GRASS6.4.3RC2 on > the GRASS website for those >who cannot run GRASS6.4.3? > > would be osgeo4w-winGRASS6.4.3 an alternative? this works for me having > ArcGIS 10.1 on my laptop. > >> Should I submit this a s bug report or is this strictly our problem > > ...you are not alone. but there is no easy solution for this python issue, a > ticket is already opened. but IMHO it is more a general question of > operating system design made by MS than a winGRASS problem. > > > > ----- > best regards > Helmut > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/WinGRASS6-4-3-crashing-tp5072888p5072913.html > Sent from the Grass - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
