[GRASS-user] NVIZ can't allocate enough memory

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Daniel Lee <lee at isi-solutions.org> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm having some trouble using NVIZ. It's worked before using similar data,
> so I'm not quite sure what the problem is. My goal is to overlay aerial
> photos over a digital surface model, but I always get errors that GRASS
> can't allocate enough memory. It doesn't matter how small I make the region.

Please post
g.region -p

> The same problem occurs when I try to do that without the aerial photos, or
> if I try to take e.g. the red band from the photo and use it as height
> without putting a photo on top of it. Here's the error:
>
> (Mon Jun 11 10:54:34
> 2012)
> nviz
> elevation=dom_complete at PERMANENT
> ERROR: G_malloc: unable to allocate 18446744071974792324 bytes at gsds.c:575
> (Mon Jun 11 10:54:34 2012) Command finished (0
> sec)

To me it looks like a g.region user error.

Markus