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

[Milton Cezar Ribeiro]

Hi Vishal,

Is there a why of you use grass 6.3?
How about you try grass 6.4R6?
Have you tryed grass with a sample (Northcaroline or Spearfish) mapset?

cheers

milton

2010/5/11 Vishal Mehta <vishalm1975 at gmail.com>

> 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
>
>
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> 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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