Question:

As I'm putting another machine to run I'm trying to install Grass *and* Debian 2.0 because there are some good programs using libc6.

But when I tried to run Grass under X I just got this message:

"/usr/local/grass42/etc/GIS.sh: line 47: 2560 segmentation fault $ETC/gis_set"

If I run Grass from a 'normal' terminal it works (and it works well I must point out!) but... Well, anyone wants a good and coloured screen filled with those colourful maps...

Answer:

We had the same problem on one of our machines. By default, Debian uses a special xterm (Debian-xterm), which seemed to cause the problem we had (same segmentation fault).

Try using the "standard xterm" (information about that in /usr/doc/X11/README-Debian).

Hope this helps !

Michael Schulz
Geologisches Institut
Universit„t Freiburg
schulzm@perm.geologie.uni-freiburg.de (10. Dec. 1998)

Answer:

There's a simple solution from Debian distribution itself: one must install termcap-compat*.deb package and everything just run fine!

I hope this can help users that are running Grass on Debian Linux.

Adalberto da Silva
Instituto Astronomico e Geofisico - USP
Sao Paulo - Brasil
adalbert@iag.usp.br

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