[GRASS-user] Error with g.mapset in Linux (ubuntu)

[Helena Herrera]

It worked
Thanks
Helena

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>wrote:

>
> Helena Herrera wrote:
>
> > I have sent an email a couple of days ago reporting an error with
> g.mapset
> > on Windows. Now I have also a problem with g.mapset on linux (a different
> > one)
> > When I do:
> > g.mapset mapset=Regional
> >
> > I get this in Output command window:
> >
> > Erasing monitors...
> > PNG: GRASS_TRUECOLOR status: TRUE
> > PNG: collecting to file: map.png,
> > GRASS_WIDTH=768, GRASS_HEIGHT=501
> > ERROR: PNG: couldn't open output file map.png
>
> This suggests that you don't have write permission on the current
> directory.
>
> In 6.x, g.mapset restarts any active monitors, as any information
> which they are storing will be invalid in the new mapset. By default,
> the PNG driver sends its output to the file "map.png" in the current
> directory; if you don't have write permission on the current
> directory, you will get an error.
>
> You can prevent this by specifying the PNG driver's output file using
> an absolute path, e.g.:
>
>        export GRASS_PNGFILE=`pwd`/map.png
>
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
>
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