Thanks Helmut. v.build did not help, as the topology was already OK.
The problem seems to be that the database has come unconnected. To make
a long story short
1) I used v.in.ogr on a GDB directory, which produced a single feature
with 20 layers, only a few of which had spatial data
2) to
Dave Roberts wrote
> I'm having difficulty getting the wx devices to show vector features.
> For example, I have a map called newveg. v.info clearly shows that
> newveg has areas, e.g.
>
> Number of points: 0 Number of centroids: 38183
> Number of lines: 0 Number of boundarie