[GRASS-user] Grass crashes when importing shapefile

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I'm new to Grass and still learning the ropes, but am having problems with grass "unexpectedly quitting" while importing shapefiles. I'm running leopard on a 2.33mhz 2GB Macbook Pro. Shapefiles are in good shape, workable in both qgis and ArcGIS 9.3. Several attempts with several different shapefiles all give same result. I have been able to import only one shapefile successfully. Any tips?

Thanks
Joshua

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Joshua Fletcher wrote:

I'm new to Grass and still learning the ropes, but am
having problems with grass "unexpectedly quitting"

could you expand on that? does a system error window pop up?

while importing shapefiles. I'm running leopard on a
2.33mhz 2GB Macbook Pro. Shapefiles are in good shape,
workable in both qgis and ArcGIS 9.3. Several attempts with
several different shapefiles all give same result. I have
been able to import only one shapefile successfully. Any
tips?

perhaps it is running out of memory? (I'm not sure how OSX deals with
that) if so, try the v.in.ogr -t flag.

is the shapefile huge? does a small one work?

Hamish