[GRASS-windows] GRASS 6.3.0RC5

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Moritz Lennert
<mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>
> On 19/03/08 23:38, Adam Baker wrote:
>  > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Moritz Lennert
>  > <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>  >> On 19/03/08 17:12, Adam Baker wrote:
>  >>  > Hi, thanks for responding.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > I do have that file, C:\GRASS\tcl-tk\bin\wish.exe. When I run it a
>  >>  > "console" and a "wish" window pop up.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > My grass63.bat file has a line:
>  >>  >    set GRASS_WISH=wish.exe
>  >>  > I made a guess and changed it to:
>  >>  >    set GRASS_WISH=C:\GRASS\tcl-tk\bin\wish.exe
>  >>  >
>  >>  > That got me farther: the GRASS startup window appears. However, this
>  >>  > message is printed to the console:
>  >>  >
>  >>  > access: Invalid argument
>  >>  > ERROR: LOCATION << C:/GRASS/<UNKNOWN> >> not available
>  >>  >
>  >>  > And I get a Tcl-looking pop-up box that reads, "Warning: location
>  >>  > <<UNKNOWN>> at GISDBASE <C:/GRASS> is not a directory or does not
>  >>  > exist." When I close that, nothing seems wrong (but I wouldn't
>  >>  > necessarily know, since this is my first interaction the program).
>  >>
>  >>  Nothing is wrong, just GRASS telling you that it doesn't have correct
>  >>  information about a location to use, which is normal for a first
>  >>  startup. We absolutely have to fix this as it is scary enough to make
>  >>  people belief something is seriously wrong.
>  >>
>  >>  You should not see this message again the next time you run GRASS.
>  >>
>  >>  Moritz
>  >>
>  >>
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I did get that message multiple times, but it went away after I
>  > changed the "GIS Data Directory" field to C:/GRASS/GIS DataBase.
>
>  Yes, sorry. I meant that once you have entered grass successfully once
>  and exited it again, the message should not appear anymore.
>
>
>  > Thereafter, if I select a "Project Location" and "Accessible Mapset"
>  > and then "Enter GRASS,"  I get the message "Error setting region:
>  > child killed: unknown signal." Then another pop-up window with a
>  > lengthy message ("can't read "parts(w)": no such variable....")
>  > appears. Any idea about that? I can type out the whole thing if
>  > necessary.
>
>  My first guess would be that GRASS cannot find a nececssary library...

The error
can't read "parts(w)": no such variable....

is usually related to GDAL-not-found.

Try
g.region -p
in GRASS to see what it says.

This happens often, e.g.
http://www.nabble.com/cvs---error-Ubuntu-7.10-td13859038.html#a13876447
I don't understand why error catching on this fails again (it worked for
a while!).

Markus