[GRASS-user] Stuck Getting Started

[Paul Kelly]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:

> ok? (y/n) [y] ERROR: region for current mapset is not set
>       run "g.region"
>
> ERROR: "/usr/local/grass-6.4.0RC5/etc/set_data" exited abnormally. Press
> <enter> to continue.
>
>  Can't enter the datum, ellipsoid, and other parameters to define this
> dataset.
>
>  Where do I start looking for the reason?

This sounds to me like a known bug in 6.4.0 RC5 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/648> - maybe try the latest 6.4 SVN 
snapshot instead of RC5?

Paul