[GRASS-user] gislock: Permission denied

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:14:28PM +0200, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> since last week I get this error, if I want to start grass61.
> 
> as user baliola:
> 
> >grass61
> >Cleaning up temporary files.....
> >ERROR: LOCATION_NAME not set
> >Starting GRASS ...
> >///.gislock: Permission denied
> >ERROR: /usr/local/grass-6.1.cvs/etc/lock:
> >baliola is currently running GRASS in selected mapset. Concurrent use not 
> >allowed.
> 
> >grass61 /data1/grassdb/spearfish57/PERMANENT
> >Cleaning up temporary files.....
> >Starting GRASS ...
> >ERROR: LOCATION_NAME not set
> >///.gislock: Permission denied
> >ERROR: /usr/local/grass-6.1.cvs/etc/lock:
> >baliola is currently running GRASS in selected mapset. Concurrent use not 
> >allowed.
> 
> I searched the GRASS ML and found a few mails with hints but applied them 
> without success:
> 
> - Search for .gislock and deleted them
> - remove /usr/local/grass... and reinstalled with fresh cvs
> - applied chmod on grassdb
> 
> I definitely have no .gislock file on my system anymore, but nevertheless I 
> receive this promt.

I had recently the same problem and discovered that a .gislock file
is also written in LOCATION/MAPSET/.

If you look there, they may be a leftover file:

ls -la /data1/grassdb/spearfish57/PERMANENT/.gislock

Markus