[GRASS-dev] QGIS/GRASS failure of v.in.ogr
Markus Neteler
neteler at fbk.eu
Tue Oct 23 08:10:40 EDT 2007
Hi,
I got the following mail today about QGIS 0.9.0 (I assume the
preview version) on Windows:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:16:44PM +0200, El. wrote:
> I have a quick question for you, I have installed QGIS 0.9.0 Ganymede on a
> Vista computer (from a colleague) and contrarily to what I have
> experienced on my PC (no problems whatsoever), we seem to have a problem
> when we want to create dbf files.
> eg using v.in.ogr or v.in.db
> Each time we get the following error message:
>
> v.in.ogr dsn=C:\training\exercise3\rivers.shp output=gr_rivers -o
>
> Over-riding projection check
>
> Layer: rivers
>
> Invalid argument: can't _spawnl
>
> Cannot open driver 'dbf'
>
> Cannot open database C:/EpiGIS/grassworkingdir/Kenyadata/Els/dbf/ by
> driver dbf
>
> Finished with error
>
>
>
> And we are not able to solve it. I have tried using the mingw shell but to
> no avail. I have also copied my directory structure, which works fine on
> my pc to hers but also no solution. We have created the dbf dir by hand
> but also no solution....
This is probably related to the fact that winQGIS 0.9 preview AFAIK contains
a GRASS 6.2 copy. Could this be fixed later on (hence, we want 6.3.0 to be
packaged)?
Markus
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