[GRASS-user] Novice Query: Grass63, Cygwin on Windows startup errors, Error setting region (Problem with g.region: child process exited abnormally)

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Katie Urey <bracket at comcast.net> wrote:
> Glynn Clements wrote:
>> Katie Urey wrote:
>>> A novice question follows.  (new to cygwin, new to GIS, ok with UNIX, not
>>> a programmer)

I observe something odd here:

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> GRASS 6.3.0 (spearfish60):~ > g.list -f rast | head
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> 2656 1 2656 2656 1 1003 21:36:04 /usr/local/grass-6.3.0/driver/XDRIVER

so: GRASS 6.3.0, but:

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> ENV variables:
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> $ env | grep GRASS
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> GRASS_VERSION=6.1.cvs

6.1.cvs? How is that possible?

Markus