[gradsusr] draw shp problem

[Sergey Varlamov]

Dear forum members,

I met a specific problem with GrADS plotting shape files.
The first time with Linux applications I met a problem when
all graphical KDE system is shut-down and rebooted,
like MS Window!
All and any do not saved results
of any applications in the running session are lost...
Please be careful if you will try to reproduce this behavior!

GrADS version is
Config: v2.0.a9 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds
hdf5 opendap-grids,stn geotiff shapefile,
Linux workstations runs openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64),
kernel version 2.6.22.19-0.4-default

After downloading some shape files from the
http://www.diva-gis.org/Data,
namely "countries" from the Global level data
and South Korea administrative boundaries
from the Country level data,
I permanently have this problem if
run next sequence of commands.
I tested it with the Word Ocean Atlas 2005 netcdf
files:

d something
draw shp countries
draw shp KOR_adm0

... and nothing more on the screen,
the new graphical session starts.

As I believe that all shape files are just data,
there must be some problem with memory
operations in the GrADS, I guess.

Individual shape files are plotted without problem,
including both mentioned, as just shapes or as filled polygons.

Does somebody had similar problem and do it is possible
to avoid such surprises with these or other shape files?

Sincerely yours,
Sergey Varlamov

JAMSTEC, Japan