[Qgis-user] Custom CRS-database issues?

[Etienne Tourigny]

I've never heard of such issues - and it's certainly not qgis doing
this by itself (it can't save files as root unless you run it as
root).  You probably did it by accident.

cheers
Etienne

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:35 PM,  <jch at caltech.edu> wrote:
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>> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:18:27 +0800
>> From: Leyan <ouyang.leyan.ml at hotmail.com>
>> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Custom CRS-database issues?
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>> On 10/28/2012 12:25 PM, jch at caltech.edu wrote:
>>> Maybe one of these days I'll figure out how to reply to a single subject
>>> in a digest?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> My ~/.qgis directory was owned by root.  this is the second Qgis install
>>> I've done, and both times that directory ended up owned by root.  I
>>> changed it to my user, but it didn't help.
>>>
>>> I installed  psycopg2, no change.
>>>
>>> If I start Qgis through the terminal, I get these messages on start up,
>>> but no dialog when I try to save a custom CRS.
>>>
>>> "Warning: loading of qgis translation failed
>>> [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US]
>>> Warning: loading of qt translation failed
>>> [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_US]
>>> "
>>>
>>> my qgis.db file is empty.
>>>
>>>
>>> Janet
>> Could you try to move or delete the qgis.db file now that you have
>> ownership of the directory ? Having an empty file does prevent to add
>> custom CRS without any error message, I just tried. If QGIS does not
>> find the file qgis.db, it will build a new one, but if it does find an
>> invalid file, it will silently fail.
>>
>> BTW, do you know how you obtained an empty file ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Leyan
>>
>
> I still don't think I've figured out how to reply to a single message in
> the digest, apologies if this makes yet another new thread post.
>
> Deleting the blank qgis.db file solved my problem, so thanks.
>
> Also, I had never started QGIS as root, so I'm not sure how the folder
> ended up owned by root..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Janet
>
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