Beta 5 and its lockfile

[bob at math.umn.edu]

Jim,

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> What did I do wrong?
> 
> I've had GRASS5beta4 running since October, I was hesitant to touch it but 
> yesterday I uninstalled it and installed beta5. When I tried to run it and 
> got:
> 
>    GIS.sh line 23: 1308 Segmentation Fault $ETC/lock $lockfile$$
>    Unable to properly access /home/nydir/.gislock5
> 
> The directory is right and there should be no permission problems. I even 
> tried it from root, same thing. As a kludge, I commented out the exit;; line 
> in the script. GRASS then started, but exited too fast for me to read any 
> messages.
> 
>    I looked at the Beta4 source, and it seems that returning 0 flags a lock 
> and 1 is O.K.. The script seems to expect the opposite. I'm going to download 
> and check the new source.
> 
>    If this was a bug, and a fix was posted, my apologies. With both the forum 
> and the mail archive down, I couldn't check.
> 
>                              Thanks
>                                Jim

FYI I got the same thing, did the same things, etc.  It seems that a bit 
of housekeeping is needed in upgrading versions - not so bad, if one knows
about it, but annoying otherwise.

Adios,
Chris
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