[Qgis-user] Custom CRS-database issues?

[jch at caltech.edu]

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> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:18:27 +0800
> From: Leyan <ouyang.leyan.ml at hotmail.com>
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Custom CRS-database issues?
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> On 10/28/2012 12:25 PM, jch at caltech.edu wrote:
>> Maybe one of these days I'll figure out how to reply to a single subject
>> in a digest?
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>> Thanks,
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>> My ~/.qgis directory was owned by root.  this is the second Qgis install
>> I've done, and both times that directory ended up owned by root.  I
>> changed it to my user, but it didn't help.
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>> I installed  psycopg2, no change.
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>> If I start Qgis through the terminal, I get these messages on start up,
>> but no dialog when I try to save a custom CRS.
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>> "Warning: loading of qgis translation failed
>> [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US]
>> Warning: loading of qt translation failed
>> [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_US]
>> "
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>> my qgis.db file is empty.
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>> Janet
> Could you try to move or delete the qgis.db file now that you have
> ownership of the directory ? Having an empty file does prevent to add
> custom CRS without any error message, I just tried. If QGIS does not
> find the file qgis.db, it will build a new one, but if it does find an
> invalid file, it will silently fail.
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> BTW, do you know how you obtained an empty file ?
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> Regards,
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> Leyan
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I still don't think I've figured out how to reply to a single message in
the digest, apologies if this makes yet another new thread post.

Deleting the blank qgis.db file solved my problem, so thanks.

Also, I had never started QGIS as root, so I'm not sure how the folder
ended up owned by root..

Thanks,

Janet