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

[Elvis Dowson]

Hi Glynn,
                     Running this command yeilds the following output:

GRASS 6.4.svn (spearfish60):~ > g.region -p
projection: 1 (UTM)
zone:       13
datum:      nad27
ellipsoid:  clark66
north:      4928010
south:      4913700
west:       589980
east:       609000
nsres:      150.63157895
ewres:      149.76377953
rows:       95
cols:       127
cells:      12065
GRASS 6.4.svn (spearfish60):~ >

Best regards,

Elvis Dowson

On Sep 30, 2008, at 4:14 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:

>
> Elvis Dowson wrote:
>
>>> 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"
>>>
>>> <pastedGraphic.png>
>>>
>>>
>>> After that I get an error message saying" Error can't read
>>> parts(projection)": no such variable
>
>>> What could be causing it?
>
> 99.9% of the time, this error is related to the GDAL library.
>
> If you start GRASS in text mode then run "g.region -p", you may get a
> more informative error message.
>
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>