[GRASS-user] Can't create location

[Frank Broniewski]

Hi Glynn

thanks for answering my post. ls -lR /home/frank/grassdata just says

/home/frank/grassdata/:
insgesamt 0

where insgesamt means total, though this might be obvious ;)

Greetings

Frank

Am Freitag, den 07.07.2006, 01:53 +0100 schrieb Glynn Clements:
> Frank Broniewski wrote:
> 
> > I am back again, and with me my problem with location creation from epsg
> > code.
> > I am testing different linux distros and now I have Ubuntu 6.06
> > installed. I went into the package manager to install grass and all
> > necessary dependencies.
> > 
> > And then I start grass for the very first time, choose my folder as
> > database, enter my epsg code and quit grass for the new location
> > creation.
> > 
> > Upon starting grass again, the console notices: ERROR: LOCATION
> > << /home/frank/grassdata/8507.tmp >> not available
> > and I can't find my created location. Since I now know where to look for
> > the temporary things during location creation, I look into my /tmp/
> > folder, but there is no such folder (a 8507 one). I find two grass6-...
> > folders there, both from the same time. Both have only a gisrc file in
> > them. The folder with the smaller number (8468) has the following
> > content: 
> > 
> > GISDBASE: /home/frank
> > LOCATION_NAME: <UNKNOWN>
> > MAPSET: <UNKNOWN>
> > GRASS_GUI: tcltk
> > 
> > the other one (8516):
> > 
> > LOCATION_NAME: 8507.tmp
> > MAPSET: PERMANENT
> > DIGITIZER: none
> > GISDBASE: /home/frank/grassdata
> > GRASS_GUI: tcltk
> 
> What does:
> 
> 	ls -lR /home/frank/grassdata
> 
> say?
>