Here is the next series of bug reports for GRASS 5.7. Note that there seems to be a very serious error for d.vect.chart that could cause system problems. I didn't find any of these in the bug tracker.
Many thanks to Radim for responding rapidly on the last set I sent in.
Michael Barton
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Michael Barton, Professor & Curator
Department of Anthropology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
USA
voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671
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d.vect.chart
This EDA utility is a great idea (I suggest adding star graphs), but something is very wrong. No graphs are drawn. After more than 5 minutes there was nothing but constant disk access. All other activities were slowed down enormously. I eventually lost 2 Gb disk space, was unable to stop the disk activity and had to reboot. I. regained most of the disk space, but still seem to have lost 180 Mb.
Bravely, I tried again with smaller file (12 records).
d.vect.chart map=temprank_SA field=1 ctype=pie columns=MP_TOOLS,UP_TOOLS,NEOL_TOOLS sizecol=LITHICS size=20 scale=1 ocolor=black
Again, I had no graphs after 5+ minutes, but was clearly using system resources. All other activities (including typing and using a mouse) were greatly slowed down.
This time I was prepared. I quit GRASS and X11. Then I checked the process viewer. d.vect.chart was still using 5-10% CPU capacity and 33% memory. I killed it (+/- gracefully). THEN, XDRIVER showing as using up to 100% CPU capacity, though no memory. XDRIVER wouldn't quit gracefully and I had to force quit it. Again lost 1.5 Gb disk space. Got it all back this time after a reboot. I assume that the disk space is getting tied up in memory swap, though I couldn't find any file created or modified during operation that matches this space (checked before reboot).
This seems like a very serious problem with a very nice addition to GRASS.
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db.select
The following command works fine in command line (though the example given in docs is incorrect), but does not work in autogenerated GUI
db.select driver=dbf sql='select * from temprank_SA where STRATUM="SA"' fs=|
Sorry <*> is not a valid option
Sorry <from> is not a valid option
Sorry <temprank_SA> is not a valid option
Sorry <where> is not a valid option
Sorry, <STRATUM> is not a valid parameter
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g.rename
g.rename works for all map types in GRASS 5.3 and the documentation says it works for all types in GRASS 5.7. But when I tried to rename a vector, I got the following error:
g.rename vect=roads,roads57
WARNING: Vectors are not supported by g.rename