Grass5.0beta2 install prob with binaries

[Morten Hulden]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, R. Joe Brandon wrote:

> /usr/local/grass5/etc/GIS.sh: /usr/local/grass5/etc/lock: cannot execute
> binary file Unable to properly access /home/grass/.gislock
> Please notify system personel.
> 
> I have checked permissions on the offending files but all checks out ok.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> R. Joe

Yes, check that you have enough free disk space in /home/grass. 
This happened to me and the solution was trivial; I had just imported some
large data files and was out of space.

Morten Hulden