[GRASS-user] g.region error message

[Hamish]

Alessandro wrote:
> I am just compiled GRASS grass-6.4.0RC5 from source and I
> am experiencing some trouble with g.region
> 
> g.region -p
> ERROR: region for current mapset is invalid
>        <north field
> missing>
>        run "g.region"
> 
> 
> I understand that this is bug that has been highlighted
> some months ago:
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/696
> 
> I am using grass on Ubuntu 9.10. How can I fix this problem? 

probably the easiest/best way is just to grab the weekly 6.4.0 svn
code snapshot and compile that.

http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/snapshot/


after that you may need to run 'g.region -d' to recover a working WIND
file.


> I have seen that there is a .diff file the ubuntu package web site
> I have no idea how to apply the patch to fix the problem.

patch -p0 < file.diff


Hamish