Is there any more information you can provide? I just tested your code using 1.1.7 and FF 4 and am able to render a listing using a CActiveDataProvider of model objects w/o any js errors.
Maybe viewing your page source would provide a hint or two?
It looks like the jquery.yiigridview.js file is not being found.
Unless you have changed the framework files (it should be in framework/zii/widgets/assets/gridview), or set the baseScriptUrl to something else (not in the options you have shown us), then the only reason I can think of is if for some reason it has been deleted from where it was published in the assets folder, and the Yii publisher hasn’t noticed it.
Try deleting everything in your assets folder then load the page again.
Solved. I don’t know why the files weren’t in zii.widgets.assets (but I’m sure it was a local problem, not a distribution problem). Restored from the tarball, deleted the published assets, republished and problem solved.
I had this issue too and my jQ*.js files vanished from the \framework folder - I have avast installed and I’m wondering if it’s Script Scanner component did it.
Copying the entire "framework" folder from the latest release on the Yii site fixed all these issues.