[GRASS-user] problems starting Grass6.3 on Windows

[Vishal Mehta]

I'm having some recent trouble getting Grass to start on Windows XP.

when i try to start Grass i get the following message:
"error setting region (Problem with g.region): child killed:unknown signal"

and then a message box with lots of errors starting with
"cant read "parts(w)": no such variable
...
...
"

I've tried and failed with:
 - creating a new grass database directory without spaces in the path (the
default is in My Documents but it used to work before);
- unistalling and re-installing Grass
- found some reference to gis_mlock in the archives but did not understand a
word of it...

Other info:
- I have Grass 6.3.0
- Used to work until about a week ago
- Only difference since then is that i've installed QGIS , also postgis
shaepefile loader (not sure if that would cause the trouble, perhaps a
different gdal version or something??).

It would be nice to fix this so that I can use Grass commands from QGIS..

Any tips?
Thanks,
Vishal


-- 
Vishal K. Mehta, PhD
Scientist
Stockholm Environment Institute - US
133 D St Suite F
Davis CA 95616
www.sei-us.org
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