[GRASS5] nviz crashing in pre1

[Bob Covill]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:53:22PM -0400, Helena Mitasova wrote:
> > Has anybody tested nviz in 5.0pre1? It has a strange behavior - if I
> > start it with -x flag it runs fine. If I start it with -q or a given
> > elevation file it crashes everything and logs me out. However, -q and
> > elevation
> > runs OK if nviz was run with -x flag first. So it seems that -x option
> > sets something which is missing
> > in the other options. Or am I missing something here? I am running it
> > with RedHat 7.1
> > I am not sure whether this is a bug or I don't have something set up
> > properly.
> 
> Helena,
> 
> here it crashes, too. AARGH!! Recently it was o.k.
> 
> - If I start without maps, it opens.
> - If I start with a raster map, it crashes (seg.fault).
> - If I start with a raster map and "-q" it opens but doesn't display
>   anything
> - If I start with a raster map and "-x" it opens and works.
> 
> Bob, do you have any ideas?
> 
> Markus

Markus,

I am hoping to install RedHat 7.1 later this week, so I should be able
to test NVIZ then.

As far as the above flags..., the "-q" option is the quickstart option,
which ignores any supplied parameters and simply starts. The "-x"  is
essentially the same (?) as the quickstart option except the "Please
Wait" window does not come up. As far as I can tell that is the only
diffeence between "-q" and "-x". 

A good test would be to try loading a raster from nviz after starting
with "-q" or "-x". Presumably it would still crash??

A copy of the standard output from the crash might help.

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