[winGRASS] Problem starting Grass

[Martin Perra]

Glynn, I tried your suggestions:

The most common filesystem problem with running GRASS on Cygwin is if
the GRASS database directory is on a filesystem which is mounted in
text mode (i.e. where Cygwin does automatic CRLF<->LF translation).
Either add "binmode" to the value of the CYGWIN environment variable,
or use Cygwin's "mount" program to change the mode to binary.

All drives are mounted as binary, so no luck there .. .

This might be an issue. GRASS requires that you own the mapset
directory which you select in the startup screen, so you need a valid
user ID (in /etc/passwd). Check that the output from the "id" and
"whoami" programs makes sense.

id brought up my user id, and whoami listed my domain credentials.  I'm
assuming that is fine as well. . .

I'm lost on this one.  I even tried installing it on my system at
home(almost identical hardware), and it worked, so I copied the cygwin
directory over to this system and tried running grass, and got the error!
I'm wondering if windows is somehow affecting this, although I couldn't find
any registry entries after searching for Cygwin that would indicate that . .
.


Martin Perra, BSc., Geog.
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