I understand, but thought that the section where this is checked in init.sh was still broken with regard to crashing on startup with incorrect or empty GISDBASE, LOCATION, or MAPSET. If that part is already fixed, we only need to fix the particular item you ran into.
Michael On 12/7/07 4:24 PM, "Hamish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Michael Barton wrote: >>> There is a larger issue that I think may still be unsolved (though >>> Hamish's post makes me wonder now). In the past, if the .grassrc6 file >>> pointed to an incorrect GISDBASE, LOCATION, or MAPSET value (i.e., one that >>> did not exist), GRASS will automatically go into text mode and exit. >>> >>> IMHO, it should simply bring up the startup screen for selecting the proper >>> GISDBASE, LOCATION, and MAPSET. But it never got to the GUI. > > Moritz Lennert wrote: >> For me this is exactly what I get with CVS head: an error message and >> when I click on ok I can chose the correct GISDBASE. > > > I was referring to starting GRASS directly from the command line with the path > to the mapset, not from the GUI. > > > Hamish > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > ______ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs __________________________________________ Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity Arizona State University phone: 480-965-6213 fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
