[GRASS-user] Re: V.buffer stalling

[Richard Chirgwin]

Further to my first message:

> Hi,
>
> Trying to buffer a number of polygons - but only one polygon at a time.
>
> There doesn't seem by eye to be any difference in the complexity of 
> the polygons, but some of them cause v.buffer to stall at "Buffering 
> Areas - 100%" and not complete. It didn't complete left overnight. 
> Other, similar polygons complete in about 20 seconds.
>
> It's not reporting any errors...
>
> Running:
> Grass-GIS 6.4.0RC5 on OSX 10.4.1
>
> Richard
I've just run the operation in about three hours on an Acer laptop under 
Puppy Linux, using an old version of v.buffer (from Grass-GIS 6.2, which 
I had compiled so as to retain the debug=buffer option).

So there's something about v.buffer in Grass-GIS 6.4 that's making it 
stall on maps that an older version can process.

But it's not reporting any errors - so what's the best approach to 
identifying what's wrong, so I can file a bug?

Richard