[GRASS-user] problems getting Grass started

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Annekatrien Debien
<annekatrien.debien at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have been working succesfully with Grass 6.3 on Linux Ubuntu for a while,
> but I recently encountered a problem, and I can't seem to open Grass
> anymore. When I open Grass from the terminal, it gives the next error:
>
> Cleaning up temporary files.....
> Starting GRASS ...
> ERROR: LOCATION_NAME not set
>
> Does anyone have a clue on what this may mean? Any help would be really
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks!

Annekatrien,

does GRASS *exit* at this point? You should reach the text screen
to define the settings indeed.

An option is to delete the file
$HOME/.grassrc6

Otherwise use the graphical startup which may be easier to use.

Markus