geodjango access violation on vista 32 bit

Question

Am having a real problem with the geodjango saving an entry. It produces a "Error: Access Violation reading 0x???????" The error does not indicate which file or folder it's trying to gain read/write access to.

Upon researching i found other non-django programs that also have this issue, some were fixed by turning off Vista's DEP controller, but am a bit scared to go down this route and am not even totally sure if this would fix the issue.

Any one got any ideas....? Vista is a nightmare to work on.

Below is error output: Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more in (InteractiveConsole)

from django.contrib.gis.utils import add_postgis_srs add_postgis_srs(900913) from geofencing.models import FencingBorder from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point il = FencingBorder() il.name = 'some place' il.interestingness = 3 il.geometry = Point(-16.57,14.0) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\SWsoft\Plesk\Additional\Python\lib\site-packages\ if isinstance(value, self._klass) and (str(value.geom_ty File "C:\SWsoft\Plesk\Additional\Python\Lib\site-packages\

return capi.geos_type(self.ptr)

File "C:\SWsoft\Plesk\Additional\Python\lib\site-packages\ in call return self.cfunc(*args) File "C:\SWsoft\Plesk\Additional\Python\lib\site-packages\ check_string free(result) WindowsError: exception: access violation reading 0x03C2A964

il.geometry = Point(-16.57,14.0) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\SWsoft\Plesk\Additional\Python\lib\site-packages\ if isinstance(value, self._klass) and (str(value.geom_ty File "C:\SWsoft\Plesk\Additional\Python\Lib\site-packages\

return capi.geos_type(self.ptr)

File "C:\SWsoft\Plesk\Additional\Python\lib\site-packages\ in call return self.cfunc(*args) File "C:\SWsoft\Plesk\Additional\Python\lib\site-packages\ check_string free(result) WindowsError: exception: access violation reading 0x03C2A964

Answer 1

Right In case anyone else ever has the issue.. The problem was following a doc referenced at: http://code.google.com/p/geodjango-basic-apps/wiki/FOSS4GWorkshop

if you install GDAL from binary or install PostgreSQL 9.0 DO NOT reference the GDAL dll file in your settings.py. Always go with setting the VARIABLE_DEFINITION in windows system's PATH.

The culprit was this in settings.py: GEOS_LIBRARY_PATH='c:\geodjango\gdal\bin\geos_c_fw.dll'