R: [GRASS-windows] GRASS 6.3.0RC5

[Moritz Lennert]

On 20/03/08 12:53, marco.pasetti at alice.it wrote:
> Hi Moritz,
>  
> I read the mail yesterday, and I checked it out immediately; all seems 
> to work fine! I also unistalled and reinstalled winGRASS, to be sure 
> that at a *first* launch winGRASS works fine... and it is! every time 
> you install winGRASS installer replaces .grassrc6, so it starts with 
> predefined location (demolocation);
>  
> I tried with .bat and MSYS *launch*, and it works fine for both.
>  
> Adam, could you please perform another installation of WinGRASS? 
> uninstall the previous installation before.

Also, before launching GRASS for the first time after re-installation 
erase any remaining .grassrc6 files.

Moritz

> Thanks
>  
> Marco
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Da:* Moritz Lennert [mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be]
> *Inviato:* gio 20/03/2008 12.38
> *A:* Markus Neteler
> *Cc:* tabaker at u.arizona.edu; grass-windows at lists.osgeo.org; Michael 
> Barton; marco.pasetti at alice.it
> *Oggetto:* Re: [GRASS-windows] GRASS 6.3.0RC5
> 
> On 20/03/08 11:01, Markus Neteler wrote:
>  > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Moritz Lennert
>  > <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>  >> On 19/03/08 23:38, Adam Baker wrote:
>  >>  > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Moritz Lennert
>  >>  > <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>  >>  >> On 19/03/08 17:12, Adam Baker wrote:
>  >>  >>  > Hi, thanks for responding.
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > I do have that file, C:\GRASS\tcl-tk\bin\wish.exe. When I run 
> it a
>  >>  >>  > "console" and a "wish" window pop up.
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > My grass63.bat file has a line:
>  >>  >>  >    set GRASS_WISH=wish.exe
>  >>  >>  > I made a guess and changed it to:
>  >>  >>  >    set GRASS_WISH=C:\GRASS\tcl-tk\bin\wish.exe
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > That got me farther: the GRASS startup window appears. 
> However, this
>  >>  >>  > message is printed to the console:
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > access: Invalid argument
>  >>  >>  > ERROR: LOCATION << C:/GRASS/<UNKNOWN> >> not available
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > And I get a Tcl-looking pop-up box that reads, "Warning: location
>  >>  >>  > <<UNKNOWN>> at GISDBASE <C:/GRASS> is not a directory or does not
>  >>  >>  > exist." When I close that, nothing seems wrong (but I wouldn't
>  >>  >>  > necessarily know, since this is my first interaction the 
> program).
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  Nothing is wrong, just GRASS telling you that it doesn't have 
> correct
>  >>  >>  information about a location to use, which is normal for a first
>  >>  >>  startup. We absolutely have to fix this as it is scary enough 
> to make
>  >>  >>  people belief something is seriously wrong.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  You should not see this message again the next time you run GRASS.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  Moritz
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >
>  >>  > Hi,
>  >>  >
>  >>  > I did get that message multiple times, but it went away after I
>  >>  > changed the "GIS Data Directory" field to C:/GRASS/GIS DataBase.
>  >>
>  >>  Yes, sorry. I meant that once you have entered grass successfully once
>  >>  and exited it again, the message should not appear anymore.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  > Thereafter, if I select a "Project Location" and "Accessible Mapset"
>  >>  > and then "Enter GRASS,"  I get the message "Error setting region:
>  >>  > child killed: unknown signal." Then another pop-up window with a
>  >>  > lengthy message ("can't read "parts(w)": no such variable....")
>  >>  > appears. Any idea about that? I can type out the whole thing if
>  >>  > necessary.
>  >>
>  >>  My first guess would be that GRASS cannot find a nececssary library...
>  >
>  > The error
>  > can't read "parts(w)": no such variable....
>  >
>  > is usually related to GDAL-not-found.
>  >
>  > Try
>  > g.region -p
>  > in GRASS to see what it says.
>  >
>  > This happens often, e.g.
>  > http://www.nabble.com/cvs---error-Ubuntu-7.10-td13859038.html#a13876447
>  > I don't understand why error catching on this fails again (it worked for
>  > a while!).
> 
> I'm not sure it ever worked in wingrass. Another todo...
> 
> Marco, could you check on this when you have the time again ? I suppose
> your package contains the necessary libraries ?
> 
> 
> Moritz
>