[GRASS-dev] trying to test error trapping for invalid gisdbase, location, and mapset

[Michael Barton]

On 5/29/07 11:44 AM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> On May 29, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> Hi William,
>> 
>> I've always had a problem error message with an invalid database or
>> location, and not be shunted to the GUI (or text) entry for new
>> values.
>> 
> Always, as in forever and ever?  Or since the .app was available?  Or
> since some other change in GRASS?

Always as far as I remember. Change the name of your location or move it,
for example, and you get an error at startup. The only way to fix it is to
edit your .grassrc6

> 
>> I tried to check this this morning by entering an invalid file name
>> into the
>> gisdbase field in .grassrc6 and only got the error message I sent.
>> Nothing
>> else.
>> 
> Fishing for ideas: are there old dot files in your home that might
> being getting in the way, like maybe old tcsh init files
> (.profile, .login, .tcshrc and others), or something in .grass.bashrc
> (maybe something you want set)?  I've heard of bash (on OSX at least)
> reading tcsh init files.

Maybe, but I've got the same result on different Mac's (PPC and Intel). My
Intel at least has never had an old version of the OS on it. I always
assumed that this was normal, and have been planning to add an error trap
into gis_set.tcl for a long time, but hadn't gotten around to it.

Note that we just had a report on the GRASS list of someone who had a
similar error on the Mac. Kind of strange.

What happens on Linux? Windows?

Michael


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