[Freegis-list] Reset GISDBASE

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Raw,

GRASS related questions by be better anwered on the
GRASS-user-mailinglist[1] where most GRASS-gurus read.

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:44:54 -0400
Solsyst at netscape.net wrote:

> Dear Grassers:
> 
> I had Grass installed and running (it would start up OK). Loaded Globe
> for USA Colorado but just got a horozontal line as monitor display. So
> I thought I would start with a new data set , location, new region
> etc. However, when doing so my system lost power and I did not exit
> Grass properly. Now when I start grass5 I get a "gis set.tcl" dialog
> window and no further operation. When I cancel the dialog window I
> get the following erroe message:
> 
> "ERROR: LOCATION_NAME not set
> /opt/grass5/etc/Init.sh: GISDBASE : parameter null or not set.
> 
> I did uninstall and then reinstalled grass5, but to no avail.
> I looked in the list archive for this problem, but to no avail.
> 
> Anyone have some tips on what I should do to get grass5 running again?

It *could* be that you need to delete the ~/.grassrc*-files inside your
Home-dir.
This should work and *should* bring you the startup-screen back.

Best regards

	Stephan

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