[GRASS-dev] Region problems in grass 6.3 (maybe also 6.1)...

[Michael Barton]

I'm glad it's known and has a fix in the works. But why is it just showing
up now and doesn't affect 6.1?

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
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> From: Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:10:48 +0200
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Region problems in grass 6.3 (maybe also 6.1)...
> 
> Michael,
> 
> this bug I know for > 1 year. I hope that Martin submits his patch.
> 
> Markus
> 
> Michael Barton wrote on 08/16/2006 08:13 AM:
>> I can confirm this. There seems no way to satify g.region. We've set the
>> WIND file manually and still get the same error.
>> 
>> We did a make distclean and recompiled today (15 August) and still have the
>> same results. This is on an FC4 32bit system.
>> 
>> I tried the identical actions on my Mac, using 6.1.0 binaries compiled 12
>> August and had no trouble at all.
>> 
>> Did something change with g.region? Could this be due to the parser changes
>> that Markus mentioned earlier today?
>> 
>> Michael
>> __________________________________________
>> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
>> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>> Arizona State University
>> 
>> phone: 480-965-6213
>> fax: 480-965-7671
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   
>>> From: Isaac Ullah <isaac.ullah at asu.edu>
>>> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:07:09 +0000
>>> To: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
>>> Subject: [GRASS-dev] Region problems in grass 6.3 (maybe also 6.1)...
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>>       A very interesting and frustrating problem has just presented
>>> itself to me. The region settings seem to "break" after using the new
>>> zoom tools from the map display. i get the following error message in
>>> the Output window:
>>> 
>>> region for current mapset is invalid
>>> line 15: <depths:     0>
>>> run "g.region"
>>> 
>>>     This message displays after zooming a few times, or after attempting
>>> to do anything at all with "g.region" (including just printing region
>>> settings). Also, all the new zoom tools in the map display seem to do
>>> nothing after this message, and I cannot display any of the maps in my
>>> mapset. I have looked at the WIND file for the afflicted mapsets, and
>>> they seem perfectly normal. For example, the above error message is
>>> associated with the following WIND file:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> proj:       1
>>> zone:       36
>>> north:      3742844.70455
>>> south:      3309044.70455
>>> east:       944264.754065
>>> west:       560076.932184
>>> cols:       12806
>>> rows:       14460
>>> e-w resol:  30.0006108
>>> n-s resol:  30
>>> top:        1
>>> bottom:     0
>>> cols3:      12806
>>> rows3:      14460
>>> depths:     1
>>> e-w resol3: 30.0006108
>>> n-s resol3: 30
>>> t-b resol:  1
>>> 
>>>  Making a new mapset allows me to run "g.region" without any problems
>>> until I use the new zooming tools, and then the same problem occurs.
>>> Restarting GRASS initially allows for the maps to be displayed again,
>>> but after zooming a bit, or trying to run "g.region" again, the region
>>> eventually "breaks" again. What I specifically do not understand is why
>>> the error tells me to run "g.region" when doing so does nothing, and
>>> seems to even cause the error in the first place. Does anybody have any
>>> idea what the issue is here? I am using GRASS 6.3, compiled from the CVS
>>> source yesterday (08/15)... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Isaac
>>> 
>>> 
>>>     
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