[GRASSLIST:9430] Re: Rasters not displaying from old (Windows) Gr ass Projects

[Glynn Clements]

Patton, Eric wrote:

> >This one is a bit odd...I've transferred several tarred/zipped Grass
> >projects from a LaCie external hard disk (formatted NTFS) onto a Linux
> >patition of a dual-boot XP/Breezy PC. The projects in question reside on
> >/home/epatton/Projects. I've enabled full 777 privileges, recursively. Grass
> >loads the project up fine with no obvious system errors. I can
> >display/pan/zoom any vectors, even vectors that have been converted from 5.4
> >to 6.1 format using v.convert(.all).
> 
> >However, no rasters will display. I've tried several rasters from different
> >locations, to no avail, even after setting the region with g.region
> >rast=Rastername. These rasters display fine on  a Cygwin Grass session; in
> >fact, they were created from a Cygwin Grass installation. 
> 
> Sorry to answer my own post, but I've got some additional information that
> might help:
> 
> - r.compress reports that '3.0 compression indicated'. Typing r.compress -u
> gives a segmentation fault.
> - r.stats, r.univar, r.describe crash with 'Segmentation fault'; no other
> error messages are given.
> - I can run g.region rast=rastername no problem; r.info gives a standard
> information screen with nothing out of the ordinary; rows and columns,
> resolution, projection, all look good.
> - r.report gives the following:
> 
> r.stats: sh: line 1: 10646 Segmentation fault      r.stats -acr fs=:
> 'input=DumpsiteA_MB_1m.fill.shade.comb at PERMANENT' >/home/ 
> epatton/Projects/Miramichi/PERMANENT/.tmp/w5-dar-epatton/10644.0
> 
> Once again, I've checked that all permissions are write-enabled for the
> entire Location.

My first guess would be that the files were corrupted in transfer,
e.g. by transferring them as text files (CRLF->LF translation).

Do the sizes of the files in the cell/fcell directories match when
viewed under both Windows and Linux?

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>