[GRASS-user] Re: grass-user Digest, Vol 24, Issue 32

[Michael Barton]

This is a GDAL error.

We've tried to trap this and provide better feedback, but if GDAL is
broken/misinstalled/etc., this hits before any error trapping can be
implemented.

Michael


On 4/16/08 9:00 AM, "grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org"
<grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:36:53 -0400
> From: Thomas Adams <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] GRASS 6.3.0RC6 startup error
> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Message-ID: <48053C15.4020100 at noaa.gov>
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> 
> List:
> 
> I have built from source various releases of GRASS over the years with
> relatively few problems. However, I just built/installed GRASS 6.3.0RC6
> on a 64-bit Linux system (compiled with the 64-bit option turned on). I
> did not receive any install errors. GRASS starts-up fine until I select
> "Enter" (following selecting my location and mapset). Following this I
> get a startup error message that reads: "Error setting region: child
> process exited abnormally". The term window output looks like this:
> 
> GRASS 6.3.0RC6 (latlong_ohrfc):~/.ssh > Error in startup script: can't
> read "parts(w)": no such variable
>     while executing
> "set $parts(w) [expr round($parts(w)/$parts(ewres))*$parts(ewres)]"
>     (procedure "MapCanvas::zoom_gregion" line 16)
>     invoked from within
> "MapCanvas::zoom_gregion $mon"
>     (procedure "MapCanvas::create" line 40)
>     invoked from within
> "MapCanvas::create"
>     (procedure "Gm::startmon" line 11)
>     invoked from within
> "Gm::startmon"
>     (procedure "Gm::create" line 79)
>     invoked from within
> "Gm::create"
>     (procedure "main" line 30)
>     invoked from within
> "main $argc $argv"
>     (file "/usr/local/grass-6.3.0RC6/etc/gm/gm.tcl" line 541)
> Error in startup script: can't read "parts(w)": no such variable
>     while executing
> "set $parts(w) [expr round($parts(w)/$parts(ewres))*$parts(ewres)]"
>     (procedure "MapCanvas::zoom_gregion" line 16)
>     invoked from within
> "MapCanvas::zoom_gregion $mon"
>     (procedure "MapCanvas::create" line 40)
>     invoked from within
> "MapCanvas::create"
>     (procedure "Gm::startmon" line 11)
>     invoked from within
> "Gm::startmon"
>     (procedure "Gm::create" line 79)
>     invoked from within
> "Gm::create"
>     (procedure "main" line 30)
>     invoked from within
> "main $argc $argv"
>     (file "/usr/local/grass-6.3.0RC6/etc/gm/gm.tcl" line 541)
> 
> GRASS in the term window operates fine with command line input, but the
> tcltk interface is DOA. What's interesting is that the tcltk output
> window comes up and the medieval map slash window displays, but won't go
> away until I click on the "OK" button which displays the error message.
> 
> Any ideas what's going on? I have 6.3 cvs on a different machine that
> compiled & runs fine.
> 
> Regards,
> Tom
> 

__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
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