[GRASS-user] Problem grass-6.4.0 error setting region: child process exited abnormally

[Michael Barton]

Could you please let us know the platform you are running on and where  
your copy of GRASS came from (compiled yourself, binary from someone  
else)?

Michael

On Sep 29, 2008, at 2:16 PM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:15:21 +0400
> From: Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson at mac.com>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] Problem grass-6.4.0 error setting region: child
> 	process exited abnormally
> To: GRASS User <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Message-ID: <097740D8-D779-43B8-869E-6A81FE4EE992 at mac.com>
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> Hi,
>          I'm getting some errors when trying to use some basic
> grass-6.4.0 operations.
>
> I click on Add a Raster Layer and select the aspect file from the
> spearfish60 permanent dataset.
>
> After that I click on Display Active Layers and I get an error message
> "Error setting region: child process exited abnormally"
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> After that I get an error message saying" Error can't read
> parts(projection)": no such variable
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> If I click on the details button, I get the following error  
> information:
>
> can't read "parts(projection)": no such variable
> can't read "parts(projection)": no such variable
>     while executing
> "regexp -nocase {^([0-9]+)} $parts(projection) trash  
> parts(projection)"
>     (procedure "MapCanvas::runprograms" line 46)
>     invoked from within
> "MapCanvas::runprograms $mon [expr {$mymodified != 0}]"
>     (procedure "MapCanvas::drawmap" line 38)
>     invoked from within
> "MapCanvas::drawmap $mon"
>     (procedure "MapCanvas::display_server" line 9)
>     invoked from within
> "MapCanvas::display_server"
>     ("after" script)
>
>
> What could be causing it?  I just built grass-6.4.0 on Mac OS X  
> 10.5.5.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Elvis Dowson