.gislock and access ?

[DUNN JEREMY SIMON]

I have a problem . Grass won't allow me to access it's menu
page due to a failure in .gislock. When I look for this file I can't find it  ?

My error is a as below. 

>>

/home/shelob/dunnj/Grass4.1/etc/lock: /home/northwind/dunnj/.gislock: Read-only
file system
Unable to properly access /home/northwind/dunnj/.gislock
Please notify system personel.

>>

.gislock isn't in either of this directories ?


I've tried to create .gislock myself but this proves useless. 

I'm trying to unpack the SGI binaries from the moon site , but experiencing
problems.


any help on .gislock and how it is created would be nice, I 've looked in the
the begineers manual but there doesn't seem to be a mention of it .

Thank you 


Jeremy