[GRASSLIST:1679] Re: GRASS Cygwin Binary Installation problems.

[Howard Tan]

Sorry I didn't reply earlier, I've been out of town.

Thank you, Andreas and Markus for the additional text.

But I still get the same error.

I've deleted my cygwin directory. Download all the latest binaries that I
can find (as of 3/27/01). I ran the setup command to grab all the latest
cygwin files. I made sure I installed everything for a single user and in
UNIX text mode. I moved all the archived files I have (.bz2, .zip. etc) to
the root directory in cygwin, which resides on my d: partition with 17 gigs
('d:\cygwin'). Unpacked everything in the console window using the bunzip2,
unzip, and un-tarred from the root dir. Followed the instructions from
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grass5/binary/windows_cygnus/cygwin_gr
ass50bininstall.html. Everything seemed to install just fine. Xwindows
server works for both the Xserver that can install from cygwin (4.0.3), and
ReflectionX (6.10 built in 1997). I download the global dataset into my
directory (d:\cygwin\home\data) and I opened a cygwin console and tar-xzf
it from ('/home/data').

I got grass work as far as this. -->

---------------------------------------
-                            GRASS 5.0beta12
-
-LOCATION: This is the name of an available geographic
ocation.  -spearfish-
-          is the sample data base for which all tutorials are written.
-
-MAPSET:   Every GRASS session runs under the name of a MAPSET.  Associated
-          with each MAPSET is a rectangular COORDINATE REGION and a list
-          of any new maps created.
-
-DATABASE: This is the unix directory containing the geographic databases
-
-         The REGION defaults to the entire area of the chosen LOCATION.
-         You may change it later with the command: g.region
-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
-LOCATION:   global________             (enter list for a list of locations)
-MAPSET:     PERMANENT_____             (or mapsets within a location)
-
-DATABASE:   /home/data________________________________________
-
-           AFTER COMPLETING ALL ANSWERS, HIT <ESC><ENTER> TO CONTINUE
-                            (OR <Ctrl-C> TO CANCEL)
------------------------------------------------

Sad to say, I got the same error, everytime I ran grass5.

I opened a cygwin shell. I started 'grass5 -text' (what does that do?). And
I get the same error.
I opened startxwin.bat in explorer. The Xwindow server opened in full
screen. I started StartGrass. It opened a new window, and I did everything
the same error.
I even get the same error with ReflectionX.

I did not get and install the ipc-daemon, because I read somewhere it wasn't
necessary anymore. Did I mis read it? I have not tried to install the
sunrpc/xdrlib. They were not detailed in the instructions to install the
binaries. Should I? I should try to compile it myself, but I don't mind
being a Guinea pig to get the binaries to work. and they should work...

It's probably something very simple. But I just don't know what it is.

Any suggestions would be great!

Thanks,
Howard


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Lange" <Andreas.Lange at Rhein-Main.de>
To: "Howard Tan" <Howard.L.Tan at jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: <grasslist at baylor.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:40 AM
Subject: Re: [GRASSLIST:1617] GRASS Cygwin Binary Installation problems.


> Hi Howard,
>
> how do you start the grass shell?
> I will assume that your installation is ok, so you should log into
> cygwin shell and start grass5 -text there. Try to choose a database
> there. Does this work?
> You will need to start grass from within an cygwin shell, so if you use
> a X Server you have to start the xterm from within cygwin and to log in
> to grass from there.
>
> My setup is: Win NT 4.0/Win 2000, cygwin, XFree from cygwin. I can start
> the X Server from explorer, log into grass within xterm and fire up
> d.mon start=x0 etc.
>
> HTH,
>
> Andreas
>
> Howard Tan schrieb:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been trying to get GRASS to work on my NT boxes (NT4.0-sp6 and
2k-sp1).
> > I can start GRASS, but it keeps dropping out with the following error:
> >
> > ERROR:
> >        ERROR: program 'g.gisenv' cannot be executed because:
> >
> >        Neither a command line (cmd) or interactive (inter) version was
found
> > /usr/local/grass5/etc/Init.sh: GISDBASE: parameter not set
> >
> > I've downloaded all the neccassary files from Cygwin including the
XFree86
> > drivers (current as of 3/15), and I'm using ReflectionX (similar to
XWin32)
> > for my X Server. I've downloaded and installed the IPC binary
> > files(v1.09-2). Then I've installed the GRASS binaries (20010312). I can
run
> > 'StartGrass' successfully, it's starts up another window and then I can
> > enter 'grass5' into the new window. Grass starts up, and I enter the
> > LOCATION, MAPSET, and DATABASE. I've downloaded the Seeds Tutorial Set
from
> > the grass website, and follow the tutorial. Then when I hit
[ESC][ENTER],
> > GRASS coughs out with the error above.
> >
> > I get the same error on both win nt 4.0 and win 2000.
> >
> > Anybody have any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Howard Tan
>
> --
> Andreas Lange, 65187 Wiesbaden, Germany, Tel. +49 611 807850
> Andreas.Lange at Rhein-Main.de - A.C.Lange at GMX.net
>