[GRASSLIST:463] Re: concurrent user in grass6.0

[Hamish]

> I am a grass newbie: I am using grass6.0.0 on a Debian Sarge
> kernel 2.6.8-686. While exporting a tiff-image from an nviz session
> the x-server shut down; I tried to "startx" again, but it constantly
> failed. I rebooted the pc and now I cant access the mapset I was using
> before, because apparently "me" (i.e. "whoami") is using it...How can
> I unlock it?

To avoid data corruption only one instance of GRASS can access a
specific mapset at a time. To remove the lock file:

rm $MAPSET/.gislock



Hamish