[GRASS-dev] Region problems in grass 6.3 (maybe also 6.1)...

[Markus Neteler]

Michael,

this bug I know for > 1 year. I hope that Martin submits his patch.

Markus

Michael Barton wrote on 08/16/2006 08:13 AM:
> I can confirm this. There seems no way to satify g.region. We've set the
> WIND file manually and still get the same error.
>
> We did a make distclean and recompiled today (15 August) and still have the
> same results. This is on an FC4 32bit system.
>
> I tried the identical actions on my Mac, using 6.1.0 binaries compiled 12
> August and had no trouble at all.
>
> Did something change with g.region? Could this be due to the parser changes
> that Markus mentioned earlier today?
>
> Michael
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>   
>> From: Isaac Ullah <isaac.ullah at asu.edu>
>> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:07:09 +0000
>> To: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
>> Subject: [GRASS-dev] Region problems in grass 6.3 (maybe also 6.1)...
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>       A very interesting and frustrating problem has just presented
>> itself to me. The region settings seem to "break" after using the new
>> zoom tools from the map display. i get the following error message in
>> the Output window:
>>
>> region for current mapset is invalid
>> line 15: <depths:     0>
>> run "g.region"
>>
>>     This message displays after zooming a few times, or after attempting
>> to do anything at all with "g.region" (including just printing region
>> settings). Also, all the new zoom tools in the map display seem to do
>> nothing after this message, and I cannot display any of the maps in my
>> mapset. I have looked at the WIND file for the afflicted mapsets, and
>> they seem perfectly normal. For example, the above error message is
>> associated with the following WIND file:
>>
>>
>> proj:       1
>> zone:       36
>> north:      3742844.70455
>> south:      3309044.70455
>> east:       944264.754065
>> west:       560076.932184
>> cols:       12806
>> rows:       14460
>> e-w resol:  30.0006108
>> n-s resol:  30
>> top:        1
>> bottom:     0
>> cols3:      12806
>> rows3:      14460
>> depths:     1
>> e-w resol3: 30.0006108
>> n-s resol3: 30
>> t-b resol:  1
>>
>>  Making a new mapset allows me to run "g.region" without any problems
>> until I use the new zooming tools, and then the same problem occurs.
>> Restarting GRASS initially allows for the maps to be displayed again,
>> but after zooming a bit, or trying to run "g.region" again, the region
>> eventually "breaks" again. What I specifically do not understand is why
>> the error tells me to run "g.region" when doing so does nothing, and
>> seems to even cause the error in the first place. Does anybody have any
>> idea what the issue is here? I am using GRASS 6.3, compiled from the CVS
>> source yesterday (08/15)... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Isaac
>>
>>
>>     
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