[GRASS-user] Cannot import (v.in.ogr) shapefiles anymore

[Daniel Victoria]

The strange thing here is that you have the database driver set do
sqlite but the database set to dbf... Either change the driver to dbf
or the database to a sqlite file.

The db.connect man page has some nice exemples
http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass61/manuals/html61_user/db.connect.html

Daniel

On Jan 8, 2008 10:46 AM,  <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> "> db.connect -p" gives:
>
> driver:sqlite
> database:$GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/
> schema:(null)
> group:(null)
>
> ( and in the gui of v.in.ogr, among other I get:
> "DBMI-SQLite driver
> error:
> Cannot open database: unable to open database file" )
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:55:48 +0100 (CET)
>  "Moritz Lennert" <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> > On Tue, January 8, 2008 12:37,
> > nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de wrote:
> > > I had recently a clean install of grass (6.2.3 from
> > ubuntu
> > > repositories) and grass 6.3.cvs (configured with
> > > "--with-sqlite=yes", compiled and installed).
> > >
> > > Yet, whenever I try to import a shapefile (created for
> > > instance with OpenEV) I get an error "cannot open
> > database
> > > ... .... / cannot open database ... ... by driver
> > sqlite).
> > >
> > > I have checked that sqlite is installed...
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > What does db.connect -p tell you ?
> >
> > Can you connect to the database with sqlite ?
> >
> > Moritz
> >
> >
>
>
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