[GRASS-user] gis.m: file ppm not found

[Martin Wegmann]

On Thursday 11 January 2007 19:53, Michael Barton wrote:
> Since this works with Spearfish but not with some other locations, my first
> suspect would be a permissions problem.
>
> To do the graphic display, the GUI needs to send d.* output to *.ppm files
> in .../$MAPSET/tmp/[userpid] -- whatever is specified by g.tempfile.
>
> If there are permission problems, this would not work.

using grass62 (Debian rep.) works fine - permissions are the same as before 
cvs update.

regards, 
Martin


> Another potential problem might be with the GRASS environmental variables
> that set the output to a PPM file rather than an xdisplay.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 1/11/07 7:51 AM, "Martin Wegmann" <wegmann at biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I did a GRASS 6.3 cvs update one hour ago and now I cannot display maps
> > (raster/vector) anymore. The error message "file *.ppm not found"
> > appears.
> >
> > But that happens only in some locations, if I use spearfish it works
> > fine. BTW I can display my maps via d.mon-d.rast commands hence I think
> > it is a gis.m problem.
> >
> > any idea, how to fix this?
> >
> > thanks in advance, Martin
>
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