[GRASS-user] gis.m crashes at startup

[Michael Barton]

On Oct 7, 2009, at 9:00 AM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:56:17 +0200
> From: Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] gis.m crashes at startup
> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> Hi List!
>
> I've a problem running grass 6.5 svn on Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit (just  
> installed).
>
> When entering a location, gis.m crashes and in terminal it writes:
>
> GRASS 6.5.svn (brenta):~ > Error in startup script: can't read  
> "prj(proj)":
> no such variable
>    while executing
> "if { $prj(proj) == "ll"} {set proj_is_ll 1}"
>    (procedure "MapCanvas::get_mapunits" line 22)
>    invoked from within
> "MapCanvas::get_mapunits"
>    (procedure "MapCanvas::create" line 37)
>    invoked from within
> "MapCanvas::create"
>    (procedure "Gm::startmon" line 11)
>    invoked from within
> "Gm::startmon"
>    (procedure "Gm::create" line 79)
>    invoked from within
> "Gm::create"
>    (procedure "main" line 30)
>    invoked from within
> "main $argc $argv"
>    (file "/usr/local/grass-6.5.svn/etc/gm/gm.tcl" line 602)
>
> Any idea?

You probably have a problem with your installation of gdal. In the  
terminal, try g.region -gp. This probably won't work, indicating a  
gdal (or possible PROJ) problem.

Michael