[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, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Katie Urey
>> A reinstall of cygwin and grass63 seemed the best route.
>> And, now all sorts of grass63 windows open just fine.
>
> great.
>
>> My hunch (not proven) is that I had skipped this step in the install.
>> It might help future installers if the source of #3 and #5 steps is
>> clarified.
>>
>>   For installation of Cygwin, see http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html#toc5.
>>     These instructions can be used, but at step #3 use
>>     http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass62/binary/mswindows/ (or a local
>>     mirror <http://grass.ibiblio.org/mirrors.php>) instead of
>>     http://geni.ath.cx/grass. Also, in step #5 the version is 6.2.2-1
>>     instead of 6.0.cvs-1, and there's no grass.bat script.
>
> I would note that the README.html on the website at
>  http://grass.osgeo.org/grass62/binary/mswindows/
> has not picked up SVN updates since January. ("version is 6.2.2-1" above)
>  http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/log/grass-web/trunk/grass62/binary/mswindows/README.html

Good observation!
There was a leftover index.html in that directory which won the race
against README.html. Now removed and it works:
  http://grass.osgeo.org/grass62/binary/mswindows/

Markus