[GRASS-user] Can't create location

[Frank Broniewski]

Maybe it is working now. I wrote in one of my previous posts that
the /tmp/ directory had a sticky bit attached. When I removed that and
granted full access to the directory for everybody everything seems to
work as desired.
It seems that some of the scripts do not run under the user account and
so fail to do their work, since the created directories are only
editable by the user who created it ...

I am a linux newbie, so my explanation may be wrong ...

Greetings

Frank 

Am Freitag, den 07.07.2006, 16:16 +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?
> > 
> > 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 ;)
> 
> It appears that the "g.proj -c" command is failing to create the
> location, but without indicating an error.
> 
> The make_location_epsg.sh script creates a temporary location in
> <pid>.tmp, then runs "g.proj -c" to create the real location. If
> g.proj indicates an error (non-zero exit code), the script terminates,
> otherwise it deletes the temporary location.
> 
> I can't really tell any more than that.
>