[GRASS-user] Permission denied (again!)

[Frank Broniewski]

I just want to confirm this 'behavior' with GRASS installed from Repositories 
on a Ubuntu 7.10 machine. We had the same error recently.

GRASS had been installed and started with the -gui parameter. Creating a 
location within the homefolder fails for the same reasons already given 
below.

However we were able to create a new location with the text based version of 
GRASS, but some of the gis.m modules (like the map window) cannot be used. As 
far as I remember, it gives some errors about region extend not being able to 
read. I would have to ask my colleague for details.

Nearly two years back, I had the same problem and I found some kind of 
solution. I posted this on the list in year 2006. You can find the according 
threads here: 
http://www.nabble.com/-GRASS-user--Can't-create-location-td5691835.html

It had something to do with write permissions on the tmp directory where GRASS 
creates the location.

Hope this helps

Frank


On Wednesday 06 February 2008 04:13:15 Hamish wrote:
> nikos.alexandris wrote:
> > Thanks for the quick reply. I need it cause we try to
> > explore GRASS with a couple of friends and we got stuck on that(!)
> >
> > First of all:
> > >grass
> >
> > Cleaning up temporary files.....
> > Starting GRASS ...
> > ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
> >
> > Then any other attempt to create a LOCATION ends-up with
> > exiting GRASS saying to re-log and find the newly created LOCATION...
> > which is not there of course.
> >
> > I try to edit manually .grassrc6 but still no luck with the
> > LOCATION creation.
>
> if data was copied from a CD make sure that the GRASS database,
> locations, etc. have been given back write permissions, recursively.
> (the filesystem cares)
>
> also check that the current user owns the mapset you are trying to
> load. (by default GRASS lets you read from anyone mapset but only you
> can write to your own)
>
> for the file system test try going to where you are trying to make the
> new location and create a new directory, files, etc. That is all GRASS
> is trying to do and if you can do that as a normal user, and the same
> user as starts grass6, GRASS should be able to it as well.
>
>
> Also follow up that x-terminal-emulator error. Is this Ubuntu or
> Debian?
> What version(s) of OS & GRASS?
>
> ls -l /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
> ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator
>
>
> Hamish
>
>
>
>      
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