[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #1068: unnecessary error information at GRASS startup

[GRASS GIS]

#1068: unnecessary error information at GRASS startup
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  Reporter:  msieczka  |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  minor     |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
 Component:  default   |     Version:  svn-releasebranch64      
Resolution:            |    Keywords:                           
  Platform:  All       |         Cpu:  All                      
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Changes (by msieczka):

  * component:  wxGUI => default

Comment:

 > Why? It's kind of error...

 I don't think so.

 1. Remove or rename a location using the button at wxGUI startup.

 2. Quit.

 3. Start GRASS back - and it goes:

 {{{
 Starting GRASS ...
 BŁĄD:MAPSET ula nie został znaleziony
 ERROR: Location <newLocation> not found
 ERROR: Mapset <ula> not found
 }}}

 or e.g.:

 {{{
 access: No such file or directory
 ERROR: LOCATION << /home/grassdata/newLocation2 >> not available
 }}}

 It is not an error for the location or mapset to be no longer available
 under the last path GRASS remembered. IMO startup procedure should handle
 this normally. If it can't - OK, too bad. Though I still would say this is
 weird.

 >> This is scarry.

 > Really? ;-)

 No, actually it's "scary" :).

 Seriously, I really mean the user might be at least surprised with GRASS
 telling him it is an error that the location/mapset does not longer exist,
 while he removed/changed it's name using a regular GRASS tool.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1068#comment:2>
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