GRC won't start

[jara8462%nels...@gtempaccount.com]

Josh,

My system is I7 4820k cpu,  @3.70 ghz, 32 gb system memory , 11 tb hard drive space, geforce gtx650TI graphics, win 8.1 pro (all current updates)

I downloaded PoshosSdr and installed it in win 8.1 pro because I have a limesdr on order. GRC started ok and worked very well for 4 to 5 days. I shut the computer down each night and restart every day with no problems.        Today GRC started with an error “gnuradio companion exited with an error” and in the window below that it says “would you like to run gnuradiohelper.py to inspect the installation and attempt to fix the problem?”. I click yes and a command window pops up and runs gnuradiohelper.py, every time it shows everything is good and says GRC will now run properly. Regardless of what I do this happens every time I try to open GRC. I have uninstalled Poshossdr, python2.7,numphy, and reinstalled everything, including numphy of course. GRC still errors out as above, regardless what gnuradiohelper says on it’s checks. I can find no error logs or anything to tell me what the error is that is causing GRC to crash, the windows CBS log has nothing about GRC in it either. Everything worked very well for several days, I have not had any windows updates or installed anything else, before or since, except as stated above. Do you know of anything that can cause this, or has anyone else reported a similar error? I run windows defender and have checked it for any activity, and also deactivated it and tried to start GRC with no change. Would appreciate your input on this, also all the other bundled apps in poshossdr work just fine. I sent this as an email to you but have since found this forum and joined and thought it would be better posting it here.

John

[jara8462%nels...@gtempaccount.com]

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John

[Josh Blum]

Hey John,

Thanks for posting to the list. No idea why it stopped working. I have
two suggestions.

1) Run gnuradio-companion.py from the terminal and see if any
interesting errors come up:

c:\python27\python.exe c:\program files\pothossdr\bin\gnuradio-companio.py

2) Delete the config settings. Maybe a bad setting got saved or
something like that. Try removing:

c:\users\username\.gnuradio

-josh

[jara8462%nels...@gtempaccount.com]

[jara8462%nels...@gtempaccount.com]

Josh, I tried the command prompt, attached is a snap of results. I went to \gnuradio\conf.d and looked at the 6 files there, none had the entry you quoted. Those were the only config files I could find. I just went through a recovery to an earlier time on my computer, no effort I made did any good. So I went back before the problem started, after resetting windows the same problem cropped up. So I deleted poshossdr, python complete, numpy too, went through registry for settings, deleted all temp files in windows temp folder, also all entries in app data folder, local, locallow, and roaming and deleted any reference to poshos, python, etc. Then I reinstalled python 2.7.11, numpy 1.11.1, updated pip to install numpy, then installed poshosSdr, used pythonradiohelper for other dependencies. kept it up until helper said everything was a go. Still the same error, I am attaching also the dependency walker report.

Thanks for the help, it will likely be something simple as is usual.

[Josh Blum]

On 07/02/2016 08:22 PM, jara8462%nelsonvilletv.com via Pothos Users wrote:
> Josh, I tried the command prompt, attached is a snap of results. I went to
> \gnuradio\conf.d and looked at the 6 files there, none had the entry you
> quoted. Those were the only config files I could find. I just went through
> a recovery to an earlier time on my computer, no effort I made did any
> good. So I went back before the problem started, after resetting windows
> the same problem cropped up. So I deleted poshossdr, python complete, numpy
> too, went through registry for settings, deleted all temp files in windows
> temp folder, also all entries in app data folder, local, locallow, and
> roaming and deleted any reference to poshos, python, etc. Then I
> reinstalled python 2.7.11, numpy 1.11.1, updated pip to install numpy, then
> installed poshosSdr, used pythonradiohelper for other dependencies. kept it
> up until helper said everything was a go. Still the same error, I am
> attaching also the dependency walker report.
>

> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TrqntUC-IMg/V3iEdhnOvvI/AAAAAAAAAA4/rRke_kyUZWo5GVGsO7Fl82LupBqfz7o6ACLcB/s1600/1b.bmp>

> Thanks for the help, it will likely be something simple as is usual.

From your screenshot, it looks like GRC is dying parsing the config file
for [files_recent].

I would double check the grc.conf. So I'm not talking about something in
the program files install path which I assume is what you mean by
gnuradio\conf.d But grc stores another grc.conf file in the user's home
directory for the current state, this should be
c:\Users\<username>\.gnuradio\grc.conf

Given the traceback in the screenshot, I'm highly concerned that there
is some unparsable crap saved in the user's grc.conf. So no amount of
reinstalling is going to fix that.

I'm not sure why its crashing, but if you do find the user's grc.conf,
I'm curious to see whats saved in it before you try deleting it.

Thanks!
-josh