Problems which have come to light after the 8.0 image went to press

Many of these problems will be fixed in our code repository now, and eligible to go into a possible 8.0.1 release. Fixes given below can be applied by hand; USB-drive and Virtual-machine users will only have to do it once, DVD users will have to re-do it every time they boot. "Sorry for the inconvenience."

• New bugs may be reported and known bugs viewed on the ​OSGeo Trac system.

Instructions for changing language and keyboard layout

• Problem:

The instructions for changing the language and keyboard layout in the desktop-login welcome message are somewhat out of date.

• Solution:

The instructions found in the main Help page are up to date, use them instead.

GeoNode

• Problem:

Layers do not properly load.

• Solution:

In discussion.

GMT and MB-System

• Problem:

GMT in Ubuntu 14.04 has a bug reading the coastline files causing the <tt>pscoast</tt> program to crash or never complete.

• Solution:

In discussion.

GRASS GIS IPython Examples

• Problem

Using the Processing (SEXTANTE) Toolbox in QGIS breaks GRASS's startup history file, which causes the IPython examples to fail.

• Solution

Users will have to start GRASS and reset the main GIS Database path to <tt>/home/user/grassdata</tt>, then start in a GRASS session and exit from it again. The new startup history file is saved upon exiting from the GRASS terminal session.

OpenJUMP

• Problem:

Fails to start on systems with more than 4GB of RAM.

• Solution:

Edit the /usr/bin/openjump startup script and comment out JAVA_MAXMEM= on line 185.

uDig

• Problem:

The program crashes the first time you run it.

• Solution:

Just try again, after that it works ok.

Other

(minor issues)

• Mapfish database exists in QGIS's list of Postgres databases, but is not available.
• The 52nSOS database in QGIS's list of Postgres databases is actually "52nsos", all lower case. You can fix that with the <tt>[Edit]</tt> button.