[Qgis-user] Reset GISDBASE for GRASS plugin

[Micha Silver]

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 10:02 -0500, Brad Nesom wrote:
> On winxp
>  
> Apparently I already knew that. (just forgot)
> I have system variables as follows...
> GISDBASE = c:\documents and Settings\userprofile myname\GrassData
> \HLND_Data\HLND
> GISRC = c:\documents and setting/userprofile myname/.grass6
> GRASSDIR = C:\Documents and Settings\userprofile myname\GrassData
>  
> However since updating my osgeo4w installation I now have no .grass6
> file.
> And there is a .grassrc6 file and a .grasswx6 file.


I think those are from GRASS itslef, not QGIS.

> grass starts (standalone) but the error in qgis persists.


I'm not sure, but I have a feeling that QGIS doesn't even use
these .files anymore on Windows, but rather puts everything into the
windows registry.  


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> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il>
> wrote:
> 
>         On 19/09/2011 17:21, Brad Nesom wrote: 
>         
>         > 
>         > 
>         > @Micha,
>         > I have this exact problem on osge4w.
>         > where did you unset GISRC?
>         > 
>         > 
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         I did that from the Linux terminal. On Windows try this:
>         
>         Browse to (on Win 7) C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Local
>         \Temp\ 
>         
>         and find the most recent folder named grass6--wxyz (ends in 4
>         random digits). Inside that folder is a gisrc file. Edit the
>         file to reflect the correct GISDBASE path.  Maybe that will
>         help.
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         >  
>         > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Micha Silver
>         > <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:
>         > 
>         >         (responding to myself)
>         >         Found it: unset GISRC
>         >         Now QGIS starts properly, and asks for the path to
>         >         the GISDBASE, etc
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 12:31 +0300, Micha Silver
>         >         wrote:
>         >         > How can I get out of this loop:
>         >         > Starting QGIS I get this error:
>         >         > terminate called after throwing an instance of
>         >         'QgsGrass::Exception'
>         >         >   what():  G_getenv(): Variable GISDBASE not set
>         >         >
>         >         > If I start with qgis --noplugins it opens, without
>         >         GRASS, of course. But
>         >         > there's no way now to reset the GISDBASE without
>         >         the plugin. Catch 22...
>         >         >
>         >         > I'm on Scientific Linux 6.1 with a self compiled
>         >         version 1.7. Where can
>         >         > I find QGIS settings for the GRASS plugin?
>         >         >
>         >         > Thanks,
>         >         > Micha
>         >         >
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