[GRASS-user] Grass Novice in Trouble

[Anna Petrášová]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Neil Wyatt <stub.mandrel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have done a complete reinstall, following deleting every grass-related
> folder and my install of Python.
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> It now works, but it is refusing to do a complete refresh of the map
> display, always randomly leaving some vector maps out. Neither ‘Draw Map’
> nor ‘Render Map’ appear to cause anything to happen.
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> Could this be because of the number of layers (~20)? I have limited map
> import to my region of interest, which does cut down the data size a lot.
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> Is there a way to force a full redraw of the map display?
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No idea what's going on, could you install newest GRASS 70 and try again?
http://wingrass.fsv.cvut.cz/grass70/WinGRASS-7.0.0svn-r63215-1147-Setup.exe

For vector maps, you might need to rebuild them with v.build.all because
there is a change in vector format between grass 6 and 7.

Anna

Regards
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> Neil
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> Neil Wyatt
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> *From:* Neil Wyatt [mailto:stub.mandrel at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 30 November 2014 08:23
> *To:* grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Grass Novice in Trouble
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> I appear to have broken Grass
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> I am using Grass 6-4-4-1 on a windows 8.1 machine.
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> I have used Mapinfo in the past and spent most of today learning the ropes.
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> I have managed to load OSGB data and create and modify maps, but as the
> day has gone on the display has become slow and unresponsive.
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> I thought this may be because I had loaded too many large layers, so I
> created a new mapset with the plan of zooming to my area of interest,
> making it a region and only loading the parts of the maps within the region.
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> Even this simple two-map mapset wouldn’t display – it seemed to be
> refusing to zoom to the map, or thinking it was outside the region.
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> I have obviously tried fiddling with map settings and regions trying to
> get my blank screen to show a map.
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> Now, whichever mapset I chose (including the demo mapsets) I get the
> splash screen (with the ancient map), the main screen appears for a
> fraction of a second, and then both disappear.
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> I have tried restarts and even a full reinstall, but I can’t actually get
> into the program.
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> Can anyone think what I have broken… at the very least, is there a way to
> ensure every single ini file/registry key etc. is cleaned out so I can
> start completely from scratch again?
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> All help gratefully received.
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> Regards
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> Neil
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> Neil Wyatt
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