[GRASS-dev] osgeo4w on Windows Vista: g.proj.exe crashes when setting the initial location

[Michael Barton]

On Mar 10, 2009, at 2:26 PM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:00:18 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] osgeo4w on Windows Vista: g.proj.exe crashes
> 	when	setting the initial location
> To: "G. Allegri" <giohappy at gmail.com>
> Cc: GRASS developers list <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0903101758550.10856 at vortex.ukshells.co.uk>
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> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, G. Allegri wrote:
>
>> Hello list.
>> I've just setup grass from osgeo4w. I'm a Linux user but I need to
>> develop some grass scripts on windows.
>> When launching it from grass64.bat as tcltk iface, I obtain the
>> classic prompt for location. I try to set it from EPSG codes but when
>> I've choosen the name and the code, g.proj.exe crashes with a
>> "segmentation violation"
>>
>> I'm working on Windows Vista SP1.
>
> Can you give an example g.proj command-line that reproduces the  
> problem?
>
> Do other uses of g.proj also crash?
>
> Paul

Paul et al,

I've had reason to create locations from EPSG codes as of yesterday in  
the OSGEO4W GRASS 6.4RC3. It works fine in XP. I suspect that this is  
another Vista issue.

Michael