Bug report #1799
g.manual not working
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Low | ||
| Assignee: |  Lorenzo Masini | ||
| Category: | GRASS | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | Regression?: | No | |
| Operating System: | All | Easy fix?: | No |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | Resolution: | fixed | |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | Copied to github as #: | 11859 |
Description
The module g.manual does not work, because it misses the x-www-browser parameter:
g.manual -i
Starting browser <> for module index...
/usr/lib/grass64/scripts/g.manual: line 79: : command not found
From the grass shell there is no problem:
Starting browser <x-www-browser> for module index...
History
#1
Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 14 years ago
Under Ubuntu 9.04 I get
g.manual -i Starting browser <> for module index... /usr/local/grass-6.4.0RC4/scripts/g.manual: 122: : Permission denied Successfully finished
#2
Updated by Paolo Cavallini about 14 years ago
In c24f308f (SVN r12198) is slightly different:
g.manual -i
Starting browser for module index...
/usr/lib/grass64/scripts/g.manual: line 79: /usr/share/qgis/grass/bin/qgis.g.browser: No such file or directory
#3
Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 14 years ago
it works under Ubuntu now, using 09547004 (SVN r12918) and GRASS installed from the ubuntugis ppa repository.
#4
Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 14 years ago
it does not under windows (xp)
C:\\>g.manual -i Starting browser <C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe> for module index... C:\\OSGeo4W\\apps\\grass\\GRASS-~1.0SV/scripts/g.manual: C:\\Program Files\\Internet E xplorer\\iexplore.exe: command not found
#5
Updated by Redmine Admin about 14 years ago
It is bug in g.manual, I guess the problem is spaces in explorer path.
See also http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/980 and http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/655
To avoid problems with default browser we have qgis.g.browser in qgis which is using QDesktopServices::openUrl but GRASS_HTML_BROWSER was not set to qgis.g.browser for windows shell. It set from r:13002.
Unfortunately g.manual -i does not work even with qgis.g.browser, because QDesktopServices::openUrl (windows) fails to open '!file://c:...' it must be '!file:///c:...' (3 slashes) so I changed it so that ti add one slash to path on win.
To be check with next build.
#6
Updated by Redmine Admin about 14 years ago
Still does not work because the drive letter seems to be somehow lost in QUrl parser for 'file://c:...' and late setPath does not help. Another attempt commited which modifies the string before it is passed to setUrl.
#7
Updated by Markus Neteler about 14 years ago
Replying to [comment:5 rblazek]:
It is bug in g.manual, I guess the problem is spaces in explorer path.
this has been fixed 13/mar/2010 in grass6.4.0svn, grass6.5.svn, grass7.svn.
fixed in GRASS 07/oct/09.
Perhaps this bug is now solved?
Markus
#8
Updated by Redmine Admin about 14 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Closed
- Resolution set to fixed
Uff, it works but it was necessary to prepend "/" to the path BEFORE it is passed to QUrl. QUrl is doing some tricky parsing/manipulation. I won't be surprised if next Qt release breaks it again.
#9
Updated by Paolo Cavallini almost 14 years ago
- Status changed from Closed to Feedback
- Resolution deleted (
fixed)
Seems broken once more:
g.manual -i
Starting browser for module index...
/usr/lib/grass64/scripts/g.manual: line 79: /usr/share/qgis/grass/bin/qgis.g.browser: No such file or directory
Successfully finished
#10
Updated by Jürgen Fischer almost 14 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from Feedback to Closed
I guess you use the debian package, which was lacking qgis.g.browser