[GRASS-user] problems starting Grass6.3 on Windows

I’m having some recent trouble getting Grass to start on Windows XP.

when i try to start Grass i get the following message:
“error setting region (Problem with g.region): child killed:unknown signal”

and then a message box with lots of errors starting with
"cant read “parts(w)”: no such variable


"

I’ve tried and failed with:

  • creating a new grass database directory without spaces in the path (the default is in My Documents but it used to work before);
  • unistalling and re-installing Grass
  • found some reference to gis_mlock in the archives but did not understand a word of it…

Other info:

  • I have Grass 6.3.0
  • Used to work until about a week ago
  • Only difference since then is that i’ve installed QGIS , also postgis shaepefile loader (not sure if that would cause the trouble, perhaps a different gdal version or something??).

It would be nice to fix this so that I can use Grass commands from QGIS…

Any tips?
Thanks,
Vishal


Vishal K. Mehta, PhD
Scientist
Stockholm Environment Institute - US
133 D St Suite F
Davis CA 95616
www.sei-us.org

Hi Vishal,

Is there a why of you use grass 6.3?
How about you try grass 6.4R6?
Have you tryed grass with a sample (Northcaroline or Spearfish) mapset?

cheers

milton

2010/5/11 Vishal Mehta <vishalm1975@gmail.com>

I’m having some recent trouble getting Grass to start on Windows XP.

when i try to start Grass i get the following message:
“error setting region (Problem with g.region): child killed:unknown signal”

and then a message box with lots of errors starting with
"cant read “parts(w)”: no such variable


"

I’ve tried and failed with:

  • creating a new grass database directory without spaces in the path (the default is in My Documents but it used to work before);
  • unistalling and re-installing Grass
  • found some reference to gis_mlock in the archives but did not understand a word of it…

Other info:

  • I have Grass 6.3.0
  • Used to work until about a week ago
  • Only difference since then is that i’ve installed QGIS , also postgis shaepefile loader (not sure if that would cause the trouble, perhaps a different gdal version or something??).

It would be nice to fix this so that I can use Grass commands from QGIS…

Any tips?
Thanks,
Vishal


Vishal K. Mehta, PhD
Scientist
Stockholm Environment Institute - US
133 D St Suite F
Davis CA 95616
www.sei-us.org


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Hi,

2010/5/12 Milton Cezar Ribeiro <miltinho.astronauta@gmail.com>:

Is there a why of you use grass 6.3?
How about you try grass 6.4R6?

or daily builds

http://josef.fsv.cvut.cz/wingrass/

Martin

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Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa

As i mentioned earlier, Grass6.3 was working earlierwith my own mapsets - but now is not. The only difference since then that i can remember is that I installed Qgis, and started experimenting with postgresql an dpostgis as well…i dont quite see if that could impact Grass runs…but am just guessing here…

Martin, I tried your May 12 Grass 6.5 daily build.

I get the same error regarding g.region. When i try to run it from the command line, it enters grass. but then i cant use d.mon, so i try gis.m and at this point i get the same original error.

is this something to do with the gis manager? I tried to start with wx-python gui but got a different error there.

Vishal

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

2010/5/12 Milton Cezar Ribeiro <miltinho.astronauta@gmail.com>:

Is there a why of you use grass 6.3?
How about you try grass 6.4R6?

or daily builds

http://josef.fsv.cvut.cz/wingrass/

Martin


Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa


Vishal K. Mehta, PhD
Scientist
Stockholm Environment Institute - US
133 D St Suite F
Davis CA 95616
www.sei-us.org

one more thing Martin: i noticed that the last copy action on installing Grass6.5svn failed. here’s the log extract (first few and last few lines):

Create folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Vishal Mehta\My Documents\GIS DataBase
Output folder: C:\Program Files\GRASS-65-SVN\icons
Extract: GRASS.ico… 100%
Extract: GRASS_Web.ico… 100%


Create folder: C:\Program Files\GRASS-65-SVN\msys\grass
Copy to C:\Program Files\GRASS-65-SVN\msys\home\C:\Documents and Settings\Vishal Mehta
Copy failed
Completed

-Vishal

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Vishal Mehta <vishalm1975@gmail.com> wrote:

As i mentioned earlier, Grass6.3 was working earlierwith my own mapsets - but now is not. The only difference since then that i can remember is that I installed Qgis, and started experimenting with postgresql an dpostgis as well…i dont quite see if that could impact Grass runs…but am just guessing here…

Martin, I tried your May 12 Grass 6.5 daily build.

I get the same error regarding g.region. When i try to run it from the command line, it enters grass. but then i cant use d.mon, so i try gis.m and at this point i get the same original error.

is this something to do with the gis manager? I tried to start with wx-python gui but got a different error there.

Vishal

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

2010/5/12 Milton Cezar Ribeiro <miltinho.astronauta@gmail.com>:

Is there a why of you use grass 6.3?
How about you try grass 6.4R6?

or daily builds

http://josef.fsv.cvut.cz/wingrass/

Martin


Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa


Vishal K. Mehta, PhD
Scientist
Stockholm Environment Institute - US
133 D St Suite F
Davis CA 95616
www.sei-us.org


Vishal K. Mehta, PhD
Scientist
Stockholm Environment Institute - US
133 D St Suite F
Davis CA 95616
www.sei-us.org