[GRASS-user] how to define a new location with a georeferenced file

[Moritz Lennert]

On 31/07/09 23:34, Matteo Toro wrote:
> hi everybody, 
> i'm trying to use a vectorial georeferenced map; i start grass, i'm choosing georeferenced file in order to define the new location; in the window i'm setting the name of the new location, the psth to new location and the path to my georeferenced file. Then i'm clicking the define new location button, but what i get is a window with an error message:
> 
> /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator: to set an icon, please use -name <profile> and set a profile icon
> /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator: to set an icon, please use -name <profile> and set a profile icon
>     while executing
> "exec -- $env(GISBASE)/etc/grass-xterm-wrapper -T g.proj -n g.proj -e $env(GISBASE)/etc/grass-run.sh g.proj -c georef=$filepath location=$fileLocation"
>     invoked from within
> ".fileloc.def invoke"
>     ("uplevel" body line 1)
>     invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]"
>     (procedure "tk::ButtonUp" line 22)
>     invoked from within
> "tk::ButtonUp .fileloc.def"
>     (command bound to event)
> 
> this happens with both vector and raster files
> can you help me handle that?

This is a know issue in Ubuntu [1]. Are you using GRASS 6.2 ? AFAIK, 
this should be solved in GRASS 6.3.

Moritz

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/grass-user@lists.osgeo.org/msg02574.html